Providence Business News

A HOME CONSTRUCTED in 1985 on the waterfront at 9 Shore Drive in Warren recently sold for $1.5 million, marking the highest residential sale in the town for 2024 as of early September. / COURTESY COMPASS INC.

Shomari Lewis recently joined Engel & Völkers Barrington East Bay as a real estate adviser, the real estate firm announced. Licensed to practice in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Lewis previously worked as a freelance web developer, Needham Golf Club bartender and Realtor in Boston at Castles Unlimited. A Boston native, Lewis graduated with a

A MULTI-TENANT MEDICAL office building at 594 Great Road in North Smithfield recently sold for $1.95 million. / COURTESY SWEENEY REAL ESTATE & APPRAISAL

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THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Realtors said Thursday that home sales fell 2.5% last month, from July, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.86 million.

MAYOR BRETT SMILEY announced a new 'Parent Permit'program to foster housing development. Pictured is a house in 2019 located in the city's West End that has since been purchased and renovated/ PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment in August was 4.6%, an increase of one-tenth of a percentage point from July, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said Thursday. Rhode Island added 300 nonfarm jobs in August, ending three consecutive months of declines in the number of jobs, the DLT said. The state had […]

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COMMON CAUSE R.I. is alleging that the City of Pawtucket violated voters' rights in the Sept. 10 primary by failing to provide Spanish-language voting assistance. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI PROVIDENCE