For owners, agents, buyers and everyone else in Greater Boston wondering when the area’s home values are finally going to hit rock bottom, Zillow has got some good news for us. We’ve already reached it. The Seattle-based real estate tracking company issued its first quarter real estate market report today, and the Boston metro area is in the black. While some value declines are likely in certain parts of the Boston area, the region as a whole hit bottom sometime in the first three months of this year. Zillow predicts that home values in the Boston metro market will rise by 0.3 percent Continue reading >>>

The Everett High softball team gave Coach Stacy Poste a good start on her way to victory number 300 (the Lady Crimson Tide gave Poste her 200th career coaching triumph two weeks ago) with a pair of wins last week over Greater Boston League opponents Somerville and Cambridge. Lady Crimson Tide hurler Franki Perreault turned in two fine outings, allowing just two hits to Somerville and eight to Cambridge in her route-going efforts. Everett started fast and furiously against Somerville and kept the pedal to the metal until the end. Tori Cyrus hit a lead off homerun to start the game, but Somerville Continue reading >>>

Yes, Ned Johnson, the famously shy builder of Fidelity Investments [profile], did show last night in Boston for his induction into the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's Academy of Distinguished Bostonians. His daughter Abigail also made an appearance on stage with what the papers called a "rousing tribute." The rare Johnson father-daughter sightings were covered by both major Boston papers and Reuters. All of the coverage picked up on Abby's introductory remarks. She described her father as a "man consumed with passion and endless energy for fixing things," reported the Globe. That paper Continue reading >>>

Last December, we were pleased to announce that childhood obesity rates in New York City and other areas were declining. Now, according to recent research, the same is true for kids under the age of six in eastern Massachusetts. In the latest study, published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Boston examined obesity trends among kids six and under who visited a pediatric office in the greater Boston area. What they found was that, after remaining stable between 1999 and 2003, the obesity rate for these tykes began to decrease Continue reading >>>

BOSTON – According to Richards Barry Joyce Partners, the Greater Boston industrial property market had a positive start to 2012, with many properties seeing occupancy gains over the prior period, as conditions continued to improve for industrial tenants. The findings were released in “indSTATus – Spring 2012”, RBJP’s quarterly research publication highlighting Greater Boston’s industrial market. The report covers warehouse, flex and manufacturing properties across the region. Buildings with positive absorption of at least 5,000 square feet outnumbered those losing that amount of occupancy Continue reading >>>

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By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON | Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:02pm EDT BOSTON (Reuters) - When Boston's business elite gathered on Tuesday night to pay tribute to the first family of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, they got a rare, insightful look into the private world of patriarch and company Chairman Edward C. Johnson III. The 81-year-old Johnson and his family are almost as famous for avoiding the spotlight as they are for building Boston-based Fidelity into a global financial powerhouse."They give new meaning to low profile," said Peter Lynch, who Continue reading >>>

MALDEN, Mass. -- Two pitchers walk into a cafeteria. One asks the other, “So what did you do for vacation week?”The other one replies, “Threw a no-hitter. How about you?”The first one says, “Yeah, me too.”That beginning to a potential lame joke was reality on Monday as Malden softball pitcher Kiara Amos and baseball hurler Chucky Gibson returned to practice after they both recorded no-hitters on Thursday against Greater Boston League rival Somerville.Amos struck out 13 while registering her fifth career no-no while Gibson fanned 12 in a 6-0 shutout of the Highlanders.We caught up with Continue reading >>>