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7/8/2020 A luxury home-buying boom is throttling Boston through the pandemic shutdown—Boston.com

If you’re looking for signs of a negative economic impact from coronavirus, you won’t find it in Greater Boston’s high-end housing market.
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7/6/2020 Residents evacuated from Bellingham condo complex following gas leak—WHDH News 7

Roughly 30 residents were evacuated from a condominium complex in Bellingham on Thursday after gas began leaking nearby.
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7/2/2020 Trump denounces ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural outside Trump Tower—Boston.com

President Donald Trump criticized New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to paint a Black Lives Matter mural on the street outside Trump Tower, saying the effort will antagonize police and will be “denigrating this luxury Avenue.”
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6/30/2020 Report: The Boston housing market is ripe for a quick recovery—Boston.com

Realtor.com, a national site for real estate listings and information, found that the Boston housing market is the second most recovered out of the 50 largest metro areas in the country as of the week that ended June 13.
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6/30/2020 3 Reasons to Buy a Condo — and 3 Reasons to Beware—WTOP News

If you’re contemplating buying a house, especially in an urban area, you may be asking yourself: Is buying a condo a better deal?
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6/29/2020 War of the Roses, Caddyshack? These condo tales are even better—Fosters.com

It has been a bit of a bad time for many lately with the pandemic limiting activities for some and having much more extreme effects on other families in condos and elsewhere. So I thought a bit of lightness may help.
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6/25/2020 Massachusetts saw a sharp decline in condo sales in May amid COVID-19 lockdowns—Boston.com

Amid state COVID-19 restrictions, condo and single-family home sales in Massachusetts took a hit last month, according to reports released Wednesday.
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6/24/2020 Amid COVID-19, Mass. Home Sales Plummeted in May—Banker & Tradesman

Amid the statewide COVID-19 lockdown, the number of single-family home and condominium sales declined significantly on a year-over-year basis, according to a new report from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
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6/18/2020 StoneTurn Exec Says Force Majeure Clauses Lack Specificity—Law360

Many real estate owners, lenders and tenants — as well as buyers and sellers — are finding their force majeure contract clauses to be too broad as the COVID-19 pandemic brings increased scrutiny to such clauses, StoneTurn partner and law firm expert Jeffrey Matthews told Law360 in a recent interview.
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6/18/2020 Housing Tax Credit Tenants Brace For Evictions Due To Virus—Law360

Thousands of cash-strapped apartment dwellers are bracing for a wave of evictions next month that could worsen the national affordable housing shortage, placing pressure on owners of housing tax credit properties seeking to maintain financial solvency during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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6/16/2020 Four Banks Join Boston’s New Mortgage, Down Payment Program—Banker & Tradesman

Four community banks have joined a new program that offers down payment assistance and discounted mortgage rates to Boston residents who are first-time homebuyers.
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6/15/2020 Condos a Vital and Growing Part of the Greenwich Real Estate Market—Greenwich Sentinel

Condos have been quietly playing a bigger and bigger role in Greenwich. in 2012 condos were only 22% of our market by 2017 they had soared to over 36% of our residential market. Since 2012, they have continued each year to be over 30% of sales compared to single family home sales.
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6/12/2020 Steps For Commercial Real Estate Lenders As Biz Resumes—Law360

Lenders, just like most of us aren't coming out of quarantine 10 pounds lighter, caught up on Russian classics, or with a cleaned and organized garage, it's clear that borrowers are not going to emerge from any short loan-deferral cocoon looking like a monarch butterfly. Rather than expecting a monarch butterfly, best adjust your expectations and get ready to see a fat caterpillar.
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6/11/2020 MP Boston Is Reducing The Size Of Winthrop Center Again—Bisnow

Citing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the developer of a 691-foot mixed-use Boston tower has announced plans to reduce the portion set aside for residential development.
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6/8/2020 Real estate sales booming despite COVID-19 ravaging economy—Litchfield County Times

The COVID-19 pandemic may be ravaging certain sectors of the economy, but not so with the real estate market. Business is booming with inventory is getting snatched up quickly, with properties selling for well over asking price and a high number of closings.
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5/29/2020 Behavior of some condo owners is only getting worse—Fosters

It’s getting worse, not better. And I don’t mean COVID-19. I mean the interactions with owners. I get it. These are frustrating, scary, even dangerous, COVID-19 times. Either people know someone sick, worry about getting sick, are out of work, know someone who is out of work, or if working, fear being put out of work or catching the virus. It leads to stress, frustration, loneliness, depression, probably a list too long for single column. But nothing excuses bad behavior at a condo meeting. Nothing. Ever. It’s just not that important.
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5/28/2020 Mass. home sales down almost 14 percent in April—Lowell Sun

Home sales in Massachusetts during April were down nearly 14 percent, although buyers and sellers wrapped up 3,706 sales agreements while the state grappled with a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths and as residents largely stayed home and away from shuttered workplaces.
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5/28/2020 Goodspeed: Condo associations have a lot of power—Wicked Local

Often, these types of situations where there is selective rules enforcement are really nothing more than a cover for a personality conflict. You can try to reason with the trustees. You can try to build alliances with other owners and/or sympathetic trustees to promote your case. You can also run for trustee yourself.
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5/21/2020 Cape Cod home sales down, but interest returning through online searches—Boston Agent Magazine

The Cape Cod & Islands Multiple Listing Service for Barnstable County has reported a 43% decrease in pending single-family home sales in April, but the association notes a continuing high level of interest in homes in the area.
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5/21/2020 Dakota Partners Closes on Oak Tree Village in Connecticut—Boston Real Estate Times

Dakota Partners recently secured all permits and closed on the property at 89 and 92 Preston Road in Griswold, CT. Construction on the new affordable housing community, Oak Tree Village, began in late 2019.
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