Bristol County, Mass., foreclosure starts plunged 82.5 percent in April compared with the same period last year, The Warren Group said Wednesday. more

Johnson & Wales University has sold a Seekonk inn it owned and operated as an internship and training site for the past 30 years, the school announced Tuesday. more

Single-family home prices in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford metro area rose 1.7 percent from April 2012 to April 2013, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index, released Tuesday. more

The retail strip at 213-221 Thayer Street on the city’s East Side has sold for $2.8 million, real estate brokerage firm Peter M. Scotti & Associates Inc. announced Tuesday. more

Developers abandoned $29.4 million in Rhode Island historic tax credits last month by failing to make progress on six approved projects, the R.I. Division of Taxation said Monday. more

BOSTON – Massachusetts homeowners have received more than $637 million in total consumer relief during the first full year since the National Mortgage Settlement, Attorney General Martha Coakley said last week. more

Julie Longtin, owner of RE/MAX Cityside, was recently named a 2012 CoStar Power Broker by CoStar Group. Longtin qualified as one of the top commercial brokers in Providence based on the total sales transactions she closed during the year, which include multimillion-dollar transactions of multiple real estate portfolios located on the East Side and West End of Providence. These portfolios consisted of 67 apartment rental units, three parking lots and two vacant lots. Longtin was evaluated against other commercial real estate brokers active in the region by CoStar Group. more

Julie A. Lancia has been the principal of ALX Group Inc., in North Providence, since it opened 12 years ago. “The ALX Group was started as a vehicle for me to start creating some different interior spaces, creating different pieces of furniture or cabinetry to fulfill the need that I had to create,” Lancia said. more

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $2 million in grants to assist extremely low-income people and families in Rhode Island who are living with HIV/AIDS. more

More than 16,500 properties in the Ocean State are at risk of storm surge damage, according to an annual report from real estate-data firm CoreLogic. Of those 16,722 at-risk Rhode Island properties, 3,899 were described as being at “extreme risk” of hurricane-related storm surge damage. more