The Bay State housing market suffered through its worst June in 17 years last month, with sales volume down 14.9 percent and median prices tumbling 8.6 percent to $329,000,…
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AP - A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.
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HARTFORD, Conn.—Housing inventory may be rising in some parts of Connecticut, but a new report shows there’s a mismatch between what’s coming on the market and the type of affordable housing that’s needed.
Economist Donald Klepper-Smith, who analyzed the state’s housing market for the HOMEConnecticut campaign, says much of the available housing is older and located […]

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A four-bedroom farmhouse in South Egremont, Mass.; a two-bedroom condo in Vail, Colo.; and a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.

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The slump in Massachusetts’ housing market deepened in January. Reports from two organizations show a 28 percent decline in sales of single-family homes last month, compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Worcester Telegram, MA
Foreclosures more than doubled in Massachusetts in 2007, according to The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, which tracks real estate sales and …
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The Telegram reports from Massachusetts. “Foreclosures more than doubled in Massachusetts in 2007, according to The Warren Group. There were 7,653 foreclosure deeds in 2007, up 148 percent from the 3,086 in 2006, and up 600 percent from 1,092 in 2005. For those who purchased homes at the peak of the housing bubble, they may […]

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