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By DAN PETRONE

“What do you think about the schools?” This is a question many buyers ask their agent when looking to purchase a home.Certainly, the quality and availability of education and options in a specific area is very important to many home-buyers. Websites...

By MAUREEN MILLIKEN

Homebuyers looking for a cheaper condominium/townhouse option are finding that increasingly tough in New Hampshire as prices climb and inventory doesn’t.Median sales price for a condo was $405,000, up from $385,000 in August and $345,000 in September...

By RICK FABRIZIO

Dean Christon was on the front lines of fighting New Hampshire’s fall into today’s housing crisis over his 34 years with NH Housing.Christon served as executive director and CEO of the self-supporting public corporation from 2007 through 2021 and...

By PAUL BRIAND

Single-family home prices backed off from their June record high of $495,000, but the July median price of $480,000 is still the second-highest ever recorded in New Hampshire.Meanwhile, on the Seacoast, the median home price reached $905,750, the...

By PAUL BRIAND

The median price of a single-family home in New Hampshire took a giant leap in June, reaching a record-breaking $495,000, a precedent-shattering increase over the previous high-water mark of $465,000 set in May.Market conditions of squeezed inventory...

By JEFF FEINGOLD

It will come as no surprise to anyone renting an apartment in the state, but a newly compiled list of average rent increases nationwide says New Hampshire had the eighth-highest in the nation between March 2020 – the start of the Covid-19 pandemic –...

By JOSH LACAILLADE

Developers are planning to expand and renovate 14 Grove St. for mixed-use purposes. On Monday, June 12, Planning Board members approved a conditional use permit (CUP) to convert 14 Grove St. into a mixed-use building. According to senior project...

By PAUL BRIAND

As the median sales price of a single-family house in New Hampshire took a record-breaking jump to $465,000 in May, the president of the NH Association of Realtors is advocating for ways to deepen the shallow supply of available homes.The previous...

By SCOTT MERRILL

New Hampshire will need 60,000 more housing units between 2020 and 2030, and nearly 90,000 units between 2020 and 2040 to meet housing demand, according to the NH Housing Finance Authority’s (NHHFA) 2023 Statewide Housing Needs Assessment.These...

By JOSH LACAILLADE

The town of Peterborough did not secure a $15,000 AARP Community Challenge Grant, which would have been used to propel plans to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs).Affordable Housing Committee members announced during Friday’s meeting that the town...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Barbara Hutchinson loves her job. As a child therapist, she makes a difference in young people’s lives — and has a lot of fun. Sometimes they bring her new toys to play with. One day, she got to have a Nerf battle with a kid.“My job is probably one of...

By JEFF FEINGOLD

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and her Democratic colleague Tina Smith of Minnesota have reintroduced a bill that is aimed at ensuring that low-income tenants in rural areas are able to maintain access to safe and affordable housing.The Strategy and...

By SCOTT MERRILL

More than 50 bills are being watched by housing advocates and policy experts in Concord this year that could affect funding for programs, tenants’ rights, incentives to municipalities and other services relating to affordable housing and homelessness...

By JOSH LACAILLADE

Peterborough Affordable Housing Committee co-Chair Pelagia Vincent said the board is making steady progress toward solving the affordable housing shortage in town. “We are moving fast and it’s exciting,” said Vincent during a recent committee...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

An affordable, manageable starter home in New Hampshire can come in many different shapes and sizes – a small single-family home, an accessory dwelling unit on an existing lot, a manufactured home or even a tiny house on a small tract of land.However,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

From its exterior, the former Catholic church on Maple Street in Wilton looks much the same as when it was built.On the inside, however, many of the accouterments have been stripped, readying the space for its next life as an apartment building.Owner...

By IVY VANN

According to analysis just released by the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, New Hampshire is missing some 23,500 housing units.This is not a surprise to anyone. We have all heard the stories of houses selling for startling sums, and the...

By ROWAN WILSON

In Peterborough, the vacancy rate is 0.0 percent. Town Planner Danica Melone said in a healthy market, that number should be closer to 5 or 6 percent. When Melone occasionally sees rentals pop up, they’re usually rented within a day. She said she has...

Antrim 42 Main St.: An investor has purchased some of the historic Goodell Mill buildings and plans to create a housing development called Antrim Commons. The old Goodell Mill building on Main Street is on the National Registrar of Historic Places, so...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Like those before her, the woman came to the Cross Roads House homeless shelter in Portsmouth in crisis. She’d lost her car, which she’d been living in for four years, in a fire. She’d also recently lost her son. Unlike most at the shelter, the woman...