A recent email caused me to dust off my recollection of the distinction between “old” and “new” tenancies by the entirety.   Here’s t...

With all Registries of Deeds in Massachusetts expected to begin offering electronic recording as an option by July 1, 2014 or shortly therea...

The statistical malaise in the real estate market continued through April with the overall number of documents recorded down by 30% from Apr...

Someone from a local bank just emailed with a request that I send the registry's holiday schedule for the remainder of 2014.  If one per...

Earlier this week the Massachusetts Registers of Deeds Association met in Worcester and agreed to begin the process of updating the Massachu...

The stagnant real estate market continued through March.  No doubt the nasty weather was a factor but things slowed down as far back as Sept...

The Gallagher Terminal on Thorndike Street, just across the South Common from the Superior Courthouse and the Registry of Deeds, begins a ma...

Today's Globe has a story about how new Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has added a couple of big screen computer monitors to the mayor's ...

Recording stats for the first half of March show that mortgage activity is still extremely sluggish.  For the first two weeks of March in 20...

March 17 is still recognized as a holiday in Suffolk County, I believe, and that holiday is Evacuation Day which has nothing (directly) to d...

The percentage of documents being recorded electronically is down from the same time last year.  I don't think the decline is related to...

The New York Times is reporting that the ranking members of the Senate Banking Committee, Tim Johnson, a Democrat from South Dakota, and Mik...

The New York Times reports today in its business section about litigation brought in a Massachusetts state court by an investment firm agai...

The number of mortgages recorded each month, which had averaged nearly 1,300 from January 2012 through August 2013, suddenly dropped in...