BOSTON (SHNS) - Even before it has advanced in the process of getting on the November 2026 ballot, real estate interests last week started to formally lobby mayors and regional chambers of commerce against the proposed initiative petition to revive rent control across Massachusetts.

Leaders of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Massachusetts Association of Realtors and the commercial real estate development association NAIOP are taking specific issue with the fact that the possible ballot question would impose rent control in all municipalities and not just those that opt in, and how rent control policies would affect landlords, building owners and other members.

The groups said in a letter that the ballot question sought by the advocacy group Homes for All is "ill-conceived," and rat

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