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Surging rents and scarce inventory are driving Greater Boston apartment-hunters to their wits’ end

Costs have surged to record highs after the COVID-19 pandemic sent rents to lows the area hadn’t seen in years, and a slew of factors are making an always-challenging market even more frenetic.

The Green Line is coming to Somerville. Big changes are coming too.

Construction is underway on 1.3 million square feet of lab and residential property along the long-delayed extension to Somerville.

Harvard tries to address neighbors’ concerns as it seeks to develop Allston land. But will it be enough?

The ongoing debate over the university's vast land holdings may be the most consequential development saga of Mayor Wu's administration. But don’t expect construction to start anytime soon.

Wynn Resorts cashes in on Everett casino in $1.7 billion deal

The transaction is expected to close at the end of the year and will likely be one of the biggest commercial real estate deals in Massachusetts in 2022.

Downtown’s Harvard Club will soon be biotech headquarters
The club where Ivy League alumni once mingled over three-martini lunches will soon be the global headquarters of a biotech company.

Vericel on the move from Cambridge to Burlington
The cell therapy company has signed a lease for a new HQ and manufacturing facility off Route 3.

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Rendering from 2018 of proposed renovations of 135 Morrissey Blvd. in Dorchester, former home of The Boston Globe.

NOBULL signs big lease in old Boston Globe building

The sportswear company will lease 96,000 square feet of retail and office space in the prominent building near the Southeast Expressway and the JFK/UMass MBTA station.

Boston's median one-bedroom rent is at an all-time high, just $130 behind San Francisco.

Boston’s rental market has reached an all-time high

Rents here have bounced back since early in the pandemic, rebounding faster than West Coast cities that have typically been even pricier.

A building under construction at 3368 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain will include 142 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless people.

Work finally starts on long-planned homeless housing in Jamaica Plain

It took three years of planning and the resolution of a contentious lawsuit, but construction has finally begun on Boston’s largest permanent supportive housing development.

Patricia Baker, center, with Keller Williams Realty in Newton, talks with her clients after they left an open house in April 2021.

2021 set records in Boston’s housing market. What now?

Prices and sales volume both hit all-time highs in the region, with the median price of a single-family home hitting $750,000 in the Boston area and the median condo price at $625,000.

The St. Regis Residences at 150 Seaport Blvd. will be 22 stories tall with 114 luxury waterfront condos.

St. Regis Residences is getting a Seaport address

The unfinished 22-story building, affiliated with Manhattan’s famed St. Regis Hotel, will have 114 luxury condominiums, a ground-floor restaurant, and many high-end trappings. Take a look inside.

Larry Edelman
Developer Les Otten stood on the grounds of the closed Balsams resort in Dixville Notch, N.H. in 2016, early in his quest to redevelop the property. Otten is close to winning Coos County approval for a new plan to finance a construction of a hotel and conference center.

Les Otten lines up new financing for his Balsams resort reboot

Provident Resources Group, a Louisiana nonprofit, will seek to raise up to $125 million for the New Hampshire project through the sale of tax-exempt bonds.

The expansive owner bedroom has a set of three windows and a standalone fourth window on another wall.

Home of the Week: A Peabody Cape that’s roomier than meets the eye

The layout deviates from standard style with three bedrooms and two baths on the second floor. See inside.

A construction worker stopped to capture the view from the 33rd floor of the One Congress office tower during the topping off ceremony which celebrated the end of vertical construction.

A milestone for Boston’s newest office tower

A topping off ceremony was held at One Congress, a 600 foot office tower, the newest addition to Boston’s skyline. Construction is expected to be completed in 2023.