Land and Building Sales

 Clearinghouse - a program that provides information on the City's inventory of tax-foreclosed and surplus property to interested parties, including foreclosure status, and purchase information. Residents may sign up to receive when a particular property is advertised for disposition.

Real Estate Disposition Initiative - Building Sales - a program designed to facilitate the sale of surplus, tax-foreclosed, City-owned real estate to private buyers who agree to invest in the rehabilitation of the property. Buildings are made available at or below market value through a city-issued Request for Proposal (RFP).

Real Estate Disposition Initiative - Land Sales a program designed to facilitate the sale of city-owned land to private buyers for a variety of uses. Land sales are made available at or below market value through a city-issued Request for Proposal (RFP).

Yard Sale - a land disposition program through which small parcels of land are sold to residential abutters for use as open space.

                       
Property Management

Land Management - a program through which city-owned vacant land is cleaned, maintained, and readied for disposition.

Building Management - a program through which city-owned properties acquired through tax foreclosure are maintained.

Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup

Boston's Brownfields program includes a model for prioritizing the City's inventory of Brownfield properties that includes assessment, remediation, redevelopment, and reuse.

This comprehensive approach, which has been acknowledged by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a potential state-wide model has allowed the City to efficiently focus its limited resources in order to restore Brownfield properties to productive use.

Brownfields Remediation Projects - Learn about parcels for which the City is currently performing assessment work