Grant Welker

A bill aimed at allowing Massachusetts churches, synagogues and other religious institutions to build housing on their properties has passed the House.

Suffolk Downs' new feature is both practical and buzzworthy: a 600-person amphitheater that doubles as part of the project's stormwater management system.

Functionally speaking, the new big feature at the massive Suffolk Downs redevelopment is a catch basin to collect water during storms. But that's not what people will see.

A Spanish real estate investment firm has paid $234 million for the Boston Theater District apartment building.

Two condominiums on Back Bay's Commonwealth Avenue have sold for $8 million and $6 million, adding to a strong stretch of months for Comm Ave. that also includes $21 million home sales in May and December.

The Boston area has notched 13 straight months of monthly rent drops compared to a year prior, according to Realtor. That’s brought rent to an average of $2,930 from $3,054 a year prior.

The second quarter provided the Boston area with the first back-to-back periods with positive absorption, or total occupied office space, since 2019.

A major development in Union Square, Somerville, has landed a Workbar coworking space that’s due to open this fall as the company's 13th location.

Onerous building codes are responsible for about one-third of costs of building multifamily housing, according to the author of a new housing-cost study from the Boston Foundation.

Somerville officials were left with only a single proposal to choose from for a transit-oriented site that's held high expectations for the city.