Marshfield
Marshfield, MA · Real Estate
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The Hidden Massachusetts Town Where Renters Are Living Large For Under $900 A Month
Your rent check could be a lot smaller if you’d just drive about an hour and a half west of Boston. Athol, Massachusetts has been quietly sitting in Worcester County, waiting for people to notice that living here doesn’t require selling a kidney. Let’s start with the basics,...
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Developer proposes turning three attached South End buildings into housing
A proponent is proposing the redevelopment of three attached, underutilized commercial buildings on Wareham Street in the South End into a single six-story, approximately 38-unit, multi-family residential building. Stack+Co, a Boston-based integrated architectural and development firm, filed a Small Project Review Application (SPRA) with the city’s Planning Department on Oct....
The Enterprise
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Taunton Daily Gazette
Sunny Taunton raised ranch sells for $500K: Weekly home sales
This week’s top-selling property in Taunton is a raised ranch that sold for $500,000. Built in 1965, the home at 18 Wildwood Ave. sits in a quiet neighborhood. The nearly 2,000-square-foot house is flooded with natural light and features warm wood accents with a touch of nostalgia. Its spacious rooms include a well-maintained kitchen, a formal dining room, a sunroom and three bedrooms. It also has a finished lower level with a kitchenette and a large family room. Set on nearly half an acre, the property has a partially fenced-in yard and plenty of room for entertaining. Here are all of the residential property transfers recorded in the Greater Taunton area this week, according to The Warren Group. Raynham 81 Oxbow Rd, $600,382 Larkwood LLC to Allen, Bria Emily Khoury, Michael Patrick 77 Oxbow Rd, $650,408 Larkwood LLC to Crompton, Andrew R Jordan, Pamela A Taunton 18 Wildwood Ave, $500,000 Ferreira, Ana M Collette, Grace to Bellevance, Nicholas R 144 Hart St, $225,000 144 Hart Street 12 T Dermody, Beth M to Dermody, Caitlin 162 Oak St, $325,000 Zierak-Peterson T Zierak-Peterson, Sandra to Fedele, Jennifer 125 Highland St, $349,000 Montani, Daniel to Gingras, Allyson Lynn 50 N Pleasant St, $365,000
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Main Street Dollars
Dorchester Reporter
Wu eyes more changes to ‘inclusionary’ rules in bid to jump-start building surge
Above, workers are shown building a three-story house on Morton Street in Mattapan last year. Seth Daniel photo. Copyright © 2026 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. This content may not be re-published or re-used without written permission. Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration today unveiled another series of proposed changes to Boston’s...
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Willow and Hearth
Seniors Trying To Downsize In Central Massachusetts Are Fighting Younger Buyers For Scarce Starter Homes While 10,000 Elderly Applicants Wait Years For Housing
Plenty of older homeowners dream of trading a big house for something smaller, simpler and easier on the budget. In Central Massachusetts, though, they are running into a problem: so […]
Axios Boston
Wu admin. wants to ease some fees, affordable housing rules
The Wu administration on Monday proposed easing some of its affordable housing fees and requirements for developers, whether they're building large-scale commercial projects or condominiums. The big picture: The proposed zoning changes aim to shrink cost burdens that have deterred developers from building in Boston, but stop short of granting the sector's demands of lowering its affordable housing requirements altogether. How it works: Boston requires developers building multifamily housing with seven units or more to set aside 17% of units for affordable housing. Those who opt out have to pay into the state's affordable housing fund, called the Inclusionary Development Fund (IDF), as do the developers behind large-scale commercial projects like labs. Residential developers could also build affordable housing off-site, but those must be within a half-mile radius of the original project. Driving the news: Housing officials proposed amending the zoning code to spread out the IDF payments across seven installments instead of two, reversing a 2022 city zoning change. The city also proposed lowering buyout fees for condo projects, from covering 75% of the difference between market-rate and affordable unit prices to 50% of the difference. The plan would also nix the half-mile radius for off-site affordable housing and