The Massachusetts housing slump
During the state's real estate boom earlier this decade, prices for single-family homes increased 80 percent. Now new home sales and prices have dropped significantly, and a mortgage crisis is burgeoning. What does it mean for you?
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Foreclosure filings keep rising in Mass.
Some affluent Boston suburbs were among communities with the highest rates of foreclosure proceedings against homeowners in the first quarter. |
Recent news
- Foreclosure surge hits N.E. renters hard
- Condo sales in Boston drop off
- Housing slump enters its third year
- Local home prices slide in March
- Vacant homes set new record in first quarter
- Downtown condos to be auctioned
- Home sales decrease 2% in March
- Boston Fed chief offers dim outlook
- Will home market blossom in spring? A cold, hard look
- Mortgage market needs restrictions
- feature story
As foreclosures widen,
a neighborhood erodesThe foreclosure crisis sweeping Lawrence is uprooting families, destabilizing neighborhoods and shaking the economy.- photos Faces of the crisis
- graphic Many losing homes
- Profile: Lawrence
- video 'I have to leave'
- video The ups and downs of Lawrence
mortgage industry news
- Lenders: 1m troubled borrowers benefited
- Seeking protection in bankruptcy
- Clients detail web of dashed dreams
- Credit crunch's lingering effects
- Rate cut comes despite growth
- Countrywide sees rebound ahead
- Bank to end loans to mortgage brokers
- Citing fraud, state closes loan broker
- Subprime crisis toll tabbed at $71b
- Hub group, Countrywide in deal
- Downtown Subprime cowboys
- Mass. toughens mortgage regulations
- Patrick to press mortgage companies
- interactive features
- data Condo sales by community, 2006-2007
- data Single-family sales and median prices, 2006-2007
- map Foreclosures by Boston neighborhood
- Map Foreclosures in Mass.
Foreclosure news
- State investigating homes auction
- Many high bidders still waiting for homes
- Someone's loss was his gain
- Boston tenants feeling foreclosure pain
- US foreclosure rates rise 8%
- Also Lender ordered to halt foreclosures
- Foreclosure bus tours come to Mass.
- Mass. foreclosures rise 128 percent in Jan.
- City moves to acquire foreclosed homes
- Vacant homes a growing problem
- Boston presses for property upkeep
- Survey Lenders maintaining foreclosures
- Dorchester woman's eviction called off
- Thousands in Mass. foreclosed on in '07
- Firms fix heat at foreclosed apartments
- Boston Home Center helps more than 200 homeowners avert foreclosure
- As foreclosures mount, tenants suffer
market news
- Forecast: No housing recovery until 2009
- Analysts see chill in spring market
- Bay State builders try to lure buyers
- Mass. home sales at lowest level since '92
- Worcester County A crisis along Route 2
- Forecasters see slump continuing
- JOHN F. WASIK Housing market slump likely to continue into 2009
- Short sales of homes on rise
- Hopes for real estate revival wilt
- In a tough market, sell your home yourself
- The housing slump: not over after all
Home prices
- Prices fall sharply in Mass.
- October home prices post record decline
- Home prices fall for 15th month
- Existing home sales, loan applications fall
- Boston condo sales rise
- Dream of bargains draws buyers back
- Mass. home prices tick up in March
- Location, location, location
- Mass. home prices fall 6.1 percent
- Median home prices in Boston flat
- Prices falling below their assessed values
Condo market news
Falling home sales
- US home sales decline in Jan.
- Mass. home sales and prices fall
- Mass. single-family home sales fall 23.3 percent in December
- Region is tough on sellers
- November home sales lowest since 1991
- November home sales slide to 13-year low
- New home sales tick higher in September
- Sept home sales drop 18.7 percent in Mass.
- Confidence, home sales slumping
- Report: Mass. home sales keep tanking
- Home sales fall 24 percent in September
- Mass. home sales fall 11 percent
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- chats
- Finding the best deals on the CapeEdward McKenna and Maria Lamb, are agents with Buyer Brokers of Cape Cod-Berard Associates in Barnstable, chatted about the Cape market.
- Bankrate.com's Holden LewisThe senior reporter at Bankrate.com chatted about mortgages and refinancing.
- Read the full transcript nowCPA Buz Aaron chatted with Boston.com readers recently about taxes and mortgages.
- Read the full transcript nowGlobe residential real estate reporter Kimberly Blanton answered Boston.com readers' questions on the housing market.