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Rising mortgage rates could slow the soaring housing prices in Massachusetts, but a repeat of the price drop-off in the early 1990s is unlikely according to economists with the federal government.

A report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows wide variation in the Massachusetts housing market with prices on Cape Cod more than doubling over the past five years — nearly twice the growth rate in the Springfield and Pittsfield areas.

The statewide average price rose nearly 72 percent from the first quarter of 2000 to this year’s first quarter, exceeding the nearly 51 percent growth for the nation as a whole.

The report also stated that a decline in housing prices is unlikely because supply is so tight. By contrast, in …

American Real Estate Partners announced today that a long standing legal dispute has been settled and the Company is now ready to proceed with its planned residential, commercial and recreational development.

The plan call for up to 450 homes at New Seabury, a premier seaside golf community located on Nantucket Sound in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

So that means 450 new homes on the golf course only 20 minutes away from Nantucket (by plane).

Maybe Nantuckers who REALLY need to play golf (and can’t get tee times) will purchase a third or forth home here and make the short jaunt over whenever they want to tee it up.

Then again maybe not.

You can read the article from Yahoo! …

Joan Bennett Kennedy has put her oceanfront Cape Cod home on the market for nearly $6.5 million, defying her children who moved last year to take legal control of her assets amid her continued battle with alcoholism.

The house is located on Squaw Island near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. According to town of Barnstable property tax records, the 13-room, six-bedroom house sits on 1.18 acres and is valued at $3.7 million. The tax records list Joan B. Kennedy as the owner.

A Cape Cod real estate agent said the house may fetch $6 million because of the Kennedy mystique, but that it is worth closer to the $3 million it is assessed by the town of Barnstable.

‘’Perhaps because of the …

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