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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,...

Athol, MA · 5d
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The Cool Down

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Massachusetts condo owners lose homes, then get demolition bills up to $244,000 each

"There is a strong sense of not being in control."

Cambridge, MA · 1d

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Providence’s Pro-Housing Mayor Vetoed Rent Control. Then, He Lost Re-Election.

David Morales’ 81 to 17 percent victory on Tuesday over Republican Dave Talan to be the new mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, was almost a foregone conclusion. Providence hasn’t elected a Republican since Buddy Cianci’s first term in 1974. But the 28-year-old Democratic Socialist’s win over incumbent...

Providence, RI · 2d
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Julia Child’s Cambridge home sells for over asking ‘in a hot minute’

The home of famed chef Julia Child, a staple of the Cambridge area where she lived for 40 years, has officially sold. Julia Child’s former Cambridge home sold for $6.525 million — $50,000 over the asking price — after only a handful of days on the market.

Cambridge, MA · 1d

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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255 apartments units proposed for former Worcester supermarket site

WORCESTER – After two decades of speculation over the future of a large Mill Street lot across from Coes Reservoir, the owner has come forward with plans to build a housing complex with 255 units across seven buildings. The lot at 195 Mill St. was once home to the Big D chain and Price Chopper. The property has remained vacant for two decades after the grocery stores left, with the 32,000-square-foot building they left behind deteriorating into an eyesore and a significant topic of conversation during past election years. The building was torn down in October 2023 by the owner Worcester Mill LLC, a holding company that is part of Plaza Properties, which redeveloped the Lincoln Plaza shopping center. The company is headed by Sam Adams, whose family formerly owned the Big D supermarket chain. Blueprints Worcester Mill LLC submitted with the Zoning Board of Appeals show three five-story buildings and four four-story buildings. The 255 units will include studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. The plans also include 389 total parking spaces, including 85 compact spaces, 39 electrical vehicle spaces, 39 electrical vehicle-ready spaces and 16 accessible spaces. The owners will appear in front of the Zoning Board of Appeals

Worcester, MA · 3d

Main Street Dollars

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Homeowners 65 and older in Polk County, Fla., DeSoto County, Miss., and Boston have March 1 and April 1 deadlines to claim 2027 senior property tax exemptions

Homeowners 65 and older in Polk County, Florida, DeSoto County, Mississippi, and Boston can cut their 2027 property tax bills with senior exemptions, but each program has a filing cutoff. Florida’s Polk County wants paperwork by March 1, while DeSoto County and Boston close their windows April 1. The Florida break can take up to […]

Polk County, FL · 4d

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See this stunning New Hampshire farmhouse on a peaceful Portsmouth cove

Solar power, geothermal heat, and a private dock make this coastal farmhouse a dream. This sustainably designed modern farmhouse by Maugel DeStefano Architects sits on a small point of land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Known as House on the Point, the home is traditional in form and modern in its details, with white siding, charred black wood, and a standing seam metal roof. It won the 2026 AIA New Hampshire Citation Award for Excellence in Residential Architectural Design.

Portsmouth, NH · 1d

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Looks like starter homes will remain in illegal in much of Massachusetts

In Wellesley, Massachusetts, it is basically illegal to build a starter home, and it looks like it will stay that way. The voters of Massachusetts appear to have rejected a measure that would have overridden local laws that ban modest lots. This sounds like an arcane battle between state law and local zoning regulations, but […]

Wellesley, MA · 1d

CBS Boston

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Massachusetts voters split on Question 7 that would reduce minimum lot size

The measure would allow​ single-family homes to be built on a minimum 5,000 sq. ft. lot.

Massachusetts · 1d

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Last session tonight to weigh in on Heights Business District plan

Current business district proposal would allow buildings up to six stories and zero parking as incentives for developers. The latest proposal for the Heights Business District offers “public benefit incentives,” which are conditional bonuses for developers. Developers can build up to six stories if they offer a public...

Arlington, MA · 1d

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Randolph's Lombardo's Site Could Become 200-Room Hotel With Dinner Theater

The 13-acre Scanlon Drive property that once hosted generations of Randolph weddings, proms and community Thanksgiving dinners could soon become something entirely different: a 171,000-square-foot, 200-room hotel paired with a 65,000-square-foot events building featuring an 11,000-square-foot ballroom and a 400-seat dinner theater. Core Investments and A Yankee Line Inc. have filed a preliminary notification form laying out the vision, which would also connect the hotel and events building with a pedestrian bridge.

Randolph, MA · 3d

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Hersha Hotels Divests Boston Home2Suites Property

JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group arranged the sale of Home2 Suites Boston South Bay, a 130-suite, 76,398-square-foot extended-stay hotel located at 15 Jan Karski Way in Boston. The buyer and sale price were not disclosed. Senior managing director Alan Suzuki and managing director Matthew Enright, along with associate Alexa Amorosino, represented the seller, Hersha Hotels & Resorts.

Boston, MA · 1d

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Ipswich couple earns Rebecca R. Gibbs community service award

The Rebecca R. Gibbs Memorial Charitable Fund presented its sixth annual Outstanding Community Service Award to Alexis Surpitski-McIntyre and Joe Perna at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at Ascension Memorial Church, according to a news release from the fund’s board. The board said the award recognizes Surpitski-McIntyre’s efforts to...

Ipswich, MA · 1d

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MBTA Opens Door to Redevelop Lynn's 948-Space Downtown Garage

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has issued a request for qualifications for the long-awaited redevelopment of its downtown Lynn garage, kicking off what officials describe as a two-stage process to find a partner for the 3.6-acre site. The five-story structure, which opened in 1992 and holds 948 parking spaces, has been partially closed since 2022 over safety concerns, with only about 350 spaces currently available for use.

Lynn, MA · 3d

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Multi-family housing pipeline starting to flow

There are a half dozen non-single-family housing projects in the Needham construction pipeline that could boost the town’s current inventory of approximately 2,000 multi-family units — more than 1,400 of which are classified as affordable. The rental market potentially provides refuge from Needham’s almost non-existent starter home supply,...

Needham, MA · 2d

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We need to save our naturally occurring affordable homes

Everyone agrees we need a lot more housing in Massachusetts. We’re spending billions of dollars and passing laws such as the Affordable Homes Act and the MBTA Communities Act, hoping to create that housing. But we’re losing housing for low- and moderate-income people at the same time. This chart...

Massachusetts · 1d

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Berkshire region real estate sales – November 6, 2026

98-100 Commercial Street: Star Generation LLC of Adams to Theresa Whitney, $240,600 on 10/23/2026. 51 Mountain Pasture Road: Michael Ragusa of Becket to Matthew Gerber, $45,000 on 10/22/2026. Clarksburg. 573 River Road: Devon C. Tosches of Clarksburg to Lyndsey Degrenier, $10,000 on 10/20/2026. 70 Brooks: Tobe A. Cote of Clarksburg...

Great Barrington, MA · 10h

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Marblehead bucks housing ballot question

A proposal to reduce minimum lot sizes for single-family homes fell short in every Marblehead precinct Tuesday. As of Wednesday at 1 p.m., Massachusetts voters had split almost exactly in half with 80 percent of the ballots tallied. Question 7 received 5,667 no votes and 4,730 yes votes in Marblehead,...

Marblehead, MA · 1d

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Boxford Invites Residents to Weigh in on the Future of Two Town-Owned Properties

BOXFORD − The Boxford Select Board is seeking resident feedback on proposed next steps for two vacant Town-owned properties: demolition of the former West Boxford Library building and sale of the property at 188 Washington Street, and a competitive lease for reuse of the former Council on Aging building at 4 Middleton Road. The survey is open through November 16, 2026.

Boxford, MA · 2d