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Environment

  • UMass Memorial returns to investment grade at perfect time

    January 18, 2016

    UMass Memorial Health Care has been returned to an investment-grade status weeks before seeking $177 million in financing for future projects and refinancing of existing debt.

    January 18, 2016
  • Movers & Shakers

    January 18, 2016

    ELIZABETH SMALL is now general counsel at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

    January 18, 2016
  • State seeks to tap into $32B digital health market

    January 7, 2016

    Gov. Charlie Baker and a litany of Massachusetts healthcare officials announced Thursday a new public-private partnership to help the state to grab a bigger slice of the $32-billion digital health industry.

    January 7, 2016
  • Users, not taxpayers, should shoulder public transit burden

    January 4, 2016

    For efficient point-to-point travel, almost nothing beats the car, especially over short distances.

    January 4, 2016
  • TALK BACK

    January 4, 2016

    CHAMBER: TAX RATE HURTS BUSINESS RECRUITINGA vote by city council halted a slow transition back to a single tax rate that had been underway for five years.

    January 4, 2016
  • Movers & Shakers

    January 4, 2016

    APRIL A. PERRY was promoted to assistant vice president/consumer loan underwriting manager for Workers' Credit Union in Fitchburg. A 33-year veteran of the union, Perry most recently served as its consumer loan underwriting manager. Over the years,

    January 4, 2016
  • Mass. group sounds alarm over lifting oil export ban

    State House News Service December 18, 2015

    The $1.1 trillion spending bill that cleared the U.S. House Friday with support from Massachusetts delegation members includes tax credit extensions for solar and wind energy industries but those measures are "dramatically overshadowed" by the

    State House News Service December 18, 2015
  • MassDEP fines Leominster company $14K

    Laura Finaldi December 17, 2015

    The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is demanding a Leominster asbestos removal contractor pay a previously suspended $14,312.50 penalty after it found the company violated state asbestos regulations twice in one year.

    Laura Finaldi December 17, 2015
  • Activists want to ban microbeads in products

    State House News Service December 16, 2015

    Environmentalists on Tuesday pressed lawmakers to take further action to keep ecosystems free of potentially toxic plastics by banning tiny plastic particles from body soap, face wash, toothpaste and other personal care products.

    State House News Service December 16, 2015
  • Securities regulators investigating closure of credit fund

    State House News Service December 15, 2015

    State securities regulators issues a subpoena Monday as part of their investigation into a company that officials say specializes in risky bonds and was heavily concentrated in junk bonds, subordinated debt and unrated securities of distressed

    State House News Service December 15, 2015
  • Workers' Credit Union partners with Monty Tech; opens 17th branch

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015

    Fitchburg-based Workers' Credit Union has partnered with the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School to open its 17th branch.

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015
  • Brian W. Thompson

    Brad Kane December 7, 2015

    Brian W. Thompson heads the leading small business lender in Central Massachusetts and the biggest Worcester-headquartered bank -- with $1.7 billion in deposits -- but it is his community connections that make him so intertwined with the business

    Brad Kane December 7, 2015
  • Eric Dickson resuscitates UMass Memorial

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015

    Dr. Eric Dickson never set out to be a hospital administrator, but leadership roles have tended to fall into his lap as he practiced as an emergency room physician over the years, thanks to his take-charge nature.

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015
  • Venkat Kolluri

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015

    Venkat Kolluri, CEO of Chitika Inc., has made an art of creating an inviting workplace to employees of his Internet advertising firm in Westborough.

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015
  • Mass. has 400MW of wind potential

    Laura Finaldi December 7, 2015

    Massachusetts has the potential to generate up to 400 megawatts of wind power by 2020 -- not counting offshore turbines -- if the right government policies are put in place, according to a report from a state environmental group.

    Laura Finaldi December 7, 2015
  • Marlborough company fined $100K

    Sam Bonacci December 4, 2015

    Marlborough environmental testing firm Accutest Laboratories of New England has been fined $100,000 for allegedly not complying with a 2014 court judgement that included $1.75 million in fines for alleged environmental violations.

    Sam Bonacci December 4, 2015

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As housing prices spike, do you raise your employees' compensation to ensure they can afford to live in Central Mass.?
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Poll Description

In June, the median single-family home price in Worcester County rose by 2.6% to $513,000 while the median home price in Middlesex County climbed by 2.2% to a $905,000. Despite the price increases, the counties saw 10.8% and a 6.2% increases in transactions over the year from June 2024. 

Despite the increase in sales, Massachusetts is experiencing an unhealthy house-price-to-income ratio, with the typical home in Massachusetts costing six times the average annual household income, according to The Boston Globe.