What’s Driving the Market

A charming colonial-style home is surrounded by a vibrant spring garden Have you felt it yet? That shift in energy out there? Earlier this month I started noticing something. Open houses that felt more like block parties. Buyers who'd been quiet all winter suddenly asking sharp, ready-to-move questions. A general sense that after a long, sluggish stretch, Massachusetts real estate finally woke up. Turns out I wasn't imagining it. What the Data Is Telling Us According to the M

New Housing Law Officially Signed into Action: A Milestone for Homeownership Rights A few weeks ago I wrote about the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act while it was still sitting on the President's desk, waiting to be signed. Here's the update: it's law now. No veto, no last-minute reversal — it went into effect automatically once the signing window passed. If you read that first post, you already know the broad strokes: biggest housing bill in decades, huge bipartisan vote, a

A charming, small cottage with a vibrant yellow door, surrounded by lush greenery and colorful flowers, nestled under the shade of tall trees. Welcome back from the long weekend. If your inbox looks anything like mine this morning, it's a lot to wade through, so let's start with something useful instead of another "hope you had a great 4th." Here's a question worth five minutes of your time: do you know exactly how your town's assessor calculated your home's living square foo

In a city that can't agree on much, Congress just passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades, and they did it with overwhelming bipartisan support. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed 358-32 in the House, with the Senate approving it shortly before with similarly lopsided margins. That's not a close vote. That's a statement. It hasn't been signed yet. There's some Washington drama around that. But the bipartisan support is so strong that even if it faces