The housing market saw a pronounced buyer-seller mismatch last month, and it’s proving difficult to draw prospective home buyers off of the sidelines, according to Zillow. That could spell good news on the housing-affordability front. Buyers holding back from buying a home due to cost concerns could eventually prompt price cuts, and just in time
Tour of 171 Marsh St., Belmont, former home of Gov. Mitt Romney Tour of 171 Marsh St., Belmont, former home of 2012 presidential candidate and Massachusetts’s 70th governor, Mitt Romney. Joanna K. Tzouvelis, wickedlocal.com The median price for a single-family home in Massachusetts rose to $575,000 in February, a 4.9% increase from the previous year.
iStock illustration Heading into the spring home-sales market, inventory in New England’s biggest metro areas had fallen even further behind last year. For those hoping for a spring market with more choice – potentially helping some prospective sellers feel comfortable pulling the trigger and listing – it’s not a good sign. “Affordability is still a
A real estate photographer has sued the creator of a wildly popular media site that posts about distinctive properties, saying the creator used two of her photographs without her permission. Veteran photographer Jennnifer Bouma, of Washington State, has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Zillow Gone Wild. She took the photos in 2021 and copyrighted