Renovate or Relocate? What To Know Before You Decide To Age in Place

You've spent years making your house feel like home, celebrating milestones, making each room your own, and turning neighbors into friends. As you look ahead to the next chapter of your life, it's natural to wonder if this is still the place you want to spend it.

Affordable Starter Homes Are Still a Reality in These Top Cities for Flexible First-Time Buyers

While starter homes are increasingly hard to come by nationally, a handful of affordable markets— overwhelmingly concentrated in the Midwest—offer first-time buyers a healthy and diverse selection of entry-level properties. So what exactly is considered a starter home? Realtor.com® economists define

Massachusetts Ballot Question Would Legalize Smaller Lots for Starter Homes

This fall, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to allow homes on smaller lots. Boosters hope the initiative will transform the state's lagging housing market and promote starter homes. Question 7, if passed, would change the state's laws so that a single-family home could be built on a lot that

HGTV’s Jonathan Knight Spent Big on a Custom Luxury Kitchen—Even Though He Admits He Doesn’t Cook

When New Kids on the Block member and HGTV star Jonathan Knight isn’t on the road touring or filming home renovations in cities across the country, the Boston native heads to the neighborhood block that truly makes his heart sing—a dead-end street in Essex, MA. Knight owns four adjacent homes there,