Home prices up in Boston last year, but less than the nation. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Home prices for Greater Boston increased by nearly 10 percent last year, but the healthy hike was less than the Continue reading >>>

Jason Fivek has been hired to lead the Jones Lang LaSalle Mass Pike/Route 128 brokerage team, the commercial real estate services firm said. The hire is part of the firm’s push to expand its coverage throughout the Greater Boston market. Fivek joins JLL from Boston Properties and brings 15 years of commercial real estate experience. In his new job, he will specialize in representing tenants and investors in the leasing and sale of office and research and development space in Waltham and the surrounding area. “Growing market share and adding top talent to build our culture of collaboration Continue reading >>>

The state gambling commission on Monday terminated a consulting contract today over a potential conflict of interest, which could cause a one month delay in the award of a casino license in Greater Boston. Stay with the story. Get full access to BostonGlobe.com for just 99¢ Unlimited access to BostonGlobe.com for only 99¢ for the first 4 weeks. You can cancel at any time. Get started today Already a subscriber? Log in or link your print subscription. Continue reading >>>

Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter A summary of recent transactions and personnel news within Greater Boston’s real estate community. Douglas Jacoby and Scott Dragos have joined the Boston office of Colliers Continue reading >>>

Home sales were up overall in 2013 but slowed toward the end of the year. Craig Douglas Managing Editor, Online Research- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter While the froth was building early in many of Greater Boston's most popular housing Continue reading >>>

Want to leave your mark on Greater Boston? The MBTA is looking for a few good artists to decorate the first three stations on the planned Green Line extension, and has extended its submission deadline until Friday. The stations — an overhauled Lechmere station, as well as two new stations in Somerville — afford a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for enterprising artists to reach large audiences. Boston has benefited from a bumper crop of good public art recently, from the giant murals in Dewey Square to the graffiti installation at Bartlett Yard in Roxbury last fall. But when the three new stations Continue reading >>>

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Condos and townhouses make up the bulk of the listings, like this 1,848 square foot townhouse in Marlborough listed at just under $250,000. For the single or newly hitched crowd, I thought this $169,000, two bed, one-and-a-half bath condo in a neat old house in downtown Salem was intriguing, but then again I have a thing for older homes. If you want a traditional single family, you are going to be looking mostly at ranches and tiny capes. Geographically, it's a toss up between close-in, old industrial cities and towns like Everett and Lynn and mill towns a bit farther out like Brockton and Continue reading >>>

By Erica SchmittStaff Writer Call it what you wish — a high school and family reunion combined into one; a way to help children in the Greater Boston area and honor the victims of last year’s Marathon bombings, or a fun night out at the bar.Newington natives Rob Perkoski and Bob Cassin had all those things in mind when they decided to plan their 2014 Boston Marathon Benefit March 1 at The Bar and Grill, 512 Cedar Street in Newington.The pair are lifelong friends Continue reading >>>

Owners of the Palmer, Mass., land where Mohegan Sun once hoped to develop a $1 billion resort casino expect to file a lawsuit today alleging Mohegan Sun shifted its attention to the more lucrative Greater Boston market prior to a Nov. 5 referendum in Palmer, breaching an "exclusivity agreement."Voters in Palmer, in western Massachusetts, rejected the Mohegan Sun proposal by a mere 93 votes with more than 5,000 votes cast.Northeast Realty Associates, in the suit to be filed in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, claims Mohegan Sun broke an agreement that prohibited it from operating Continue reading >>>