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Struggling Ginkgo Bioworks says it will step away from soon-to-open Seaport building

The cell production company was set to move into new building by year’s end, but will instead put it up for sublease.

‘What could be better than having free land?: How 112,000 publicly owned acres could help solve the housing crisis
A new report estimates that developing just a fraction of publicly owned land in Greater Boston could make room for 85,000 new homes.

In Chelsea, a new model for public housing opens its doors
A new apartment complex with upscale amenities may seem like a marker of gentrification. But this development will provide new homes for some of the city’s poorest residents.

Mortgage rates fell, then rose. What comes next?

Mortgage rates fell steadily from this spring through September, but the rate on a 30-year mortgage has reversed course and climbed sharply over the past month to 6.79 percent nationally, from about 6.1 percent at the start of October.

Housing construction around Boston has been sluggish. Here’s why that could change soon.
Developers are hoping that lower interest rates will make much-needed apartment projects easier to finance.

North toward hope
He migrated to Massachusetts in search of stability. Now, he’s homeless.
In a collision of two huge challenges facing Massachusetts, newly arrived migrants are struggling to find scarce housing.

What’s the rent where you live? The Globe’s new rent tracker keeps tabs all over Eastern Mass.
See the latest rent estimates and trends for cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.

Roxbury family will be allowed to replace their house with an apartment building after years-long neighborhood battle
A local family’s years-long fight to redevelop their home ended Thursday with an approval from a divided neighborhood group.

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City program to buy buildings and keep them affordable is starting to make a dent

A city program helps community groups take apartment buildings off the market as part of a broader effort to slow the pace of gentrification in lower-income neighborhoods and create more affordable housing.

Where are all the homebuyers? Greater Boston home sales dipped in September.

Just as Greater Boston’s housing market was showing signs of life earlier this year, single-family home sales in September fell to the lowest mark for the month since 1995.

Impasse continues between Wu, Boston business leaders over tax plan after ‘compromise’ proposals can’t bridge gap

Long-simmering tensions over the mayor’s contentious plan to hike commercial property tax rates broke into the open over the weekend.

Wu, business leaders near a compromise on contentious property tax plan

While it suggested there was an end in sight to months of political infighting between Democrats on Beacon Hill and in City Hall, it won’t fix a foundational problem facing the city’s financial future, business leaders warn.

BOLD TYPES

CarGurus unveils fancy new office, high above Back Bay

On Thursday, chief executive Jason Trevisan kicked off a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company’s new Boylston Street headquarters by talking about its humble beginnings.

$300,000 state infusion aims to chart new course for former Devens army base

The Healey administration has allocated $300,000 to help plan zoning changes and governance of the former army base property.

Hasbro eyes buildings in downtown and Dorchester for potential Boston headquarters

The company, long based in Rhode Island, is focusing its search on office buildings near South Station and the Southline complex on Morrissey Boulevard, according to sources.

TASER maker set to expand in Boston

Axon Enterprise is opening a Back Bay office that it says could eventually house 500 employees.