Somerville Urgent: Rent Control hearings and more

While you are all enjoying your summer, we thought that you might be interested in what is happening at the State House and Somerville City Hall.

Effective Aug 1, 2025, rental property owners must pick up, with a small few exceptions, the entire broker’s fee when they use a Licensed Real Estate Broker to rent their apartments. This was sneaked into the budget bill without our knowledge by the Governor and Somerville’s Legislative Delegation.
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