Boston Public Library
Real Estate Resources on the Internet
Kirstein Business Branch
20 City Hall Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
617-523-0860
General Real Estate Resources

Assessing Department-City of Boston
For residential properties in Boston only. Provides assessed values, owner's name and address, owner occupancy status, annual taxes due, and parcel ID. Many other Massachusetts cities & towns are available on the town's offical website. An easy way to find a community's official website is by using the Commonwealth Communities page of Mass.gov.

Bankrate.com Mortgage Rates
Search for mortgage rates.

Boston.com recent home sales
Search by town for properties sold in Massachusetts since 1994. Provides address, sales date, and selling price.

CB Richard Ellis
Real Estate market information for Boston and for cities around the world.

Jones Lang LaSalle - Greater Boston Market
Statisics and information on the Greater Boston Office, R&D and Industrial Real Estate markets.

Massachusetts Association of Realtors - Housing and Research Data
Home Sales data back to 1991; Buyer/Seller profile data, trends & analysis.

Massachusetts Registry of deeds offices.
A list of all the Registry of Deeds offices throughout the Commonwealth with addresses, phone numbers and websites. Many of these websites have online search capablities.

Mortgage-X  
Mortgage amortization calculator.

National Association of Realtors. Research  
Research reports on Economic Indicators, Housing Statistics, and other topics in the field of real estate.


Foreclosure Resources

City of Boston. Department of Neighborhood Development-Preventing Foreclosure
Resources for preventing foreclosure and for buying foreclosed properties.

City of Boston. Department of Neighborhood Development--Real Estate Trends.
A recurring report on residential sales, foreclosures and rents in Boston.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Foreclosure Resource Center.
Resources for consumers, data and analysis, policy and procedures as well as articles and research from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston publications.

ForeclosureMass
Basic statistics on the number of foreclosures filed in Massachusetts and by county.

Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2008
From The Boston Foundation, Citizens' Housing and Planning Association and the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.

Massachusetts Public Notices
Foreclosure and Mortgagee's sale of real estate notices published in nearly 100 Massachusetts newspapers.

Massachusetts Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Foreclosure Resources.

Massachusetts Division of Banks.
Many resources for homeowners facing foreclosure as well as access to the states Online Foreclosure Database.

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