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Rhode Island, like other states nationwide, is grappling with a housing affordability crisis.​ State lawmakers are now on their sixth legislative package to strengthen efforts to improve housing affordability. This time, the package includes reviving boarding houses and co-living. Like California, Florida, and Texas, the nation’s smallest state has faced a housing shortage even as […]

Lawmakers in Connecticut have joined other state legislators in seeking to establish a process to ensure public marketing of certain real estate listings.  Connecticut legislators introduced Senate Bill 340 last week, sponsored by the Insurance and Real Estate Committee, which is a bipartisan committee composed of both state senators and representatives. A public hearing on

After spending the entirety of last week calmy holding the lowest levels in more than 3 years, mortgage rates jumped sharply higher yesterday. That said, everything’s relative. Even after that “sharp” increase, the average rate was still one of the lowest in years apart from last week. There was slightly more cause for concern this