Apartment hunting is never easy, but it becomes even harder when you live in a big city where rental units are at a premium and thousands of people are vying for the same apartments. That's why, when ...

Rent control advocates in Boston are once again pushing for new rent control laws. Of course they are. Apartment rents rose 17 percent in Boston over the last year, on average, including concessions.

A newly launched real estate firm is betting that many of Boston's apartments are undervalued enough — despite some of the ...

A heat map of Boston apartments by price per bedroom with MBTA route overlay. A new tool developed by Jeff Kaufman, a 27-year-old programmer at Google in Cambridge, allows apartment renters to ...

Period style and modern touches are on offer at this 1920s Back Bay brownstone apartment, which exudes the grandeur of Old Boston and boasts landscape views of the Charles River. The second-floor ...