If its habitable, its only marginally so.
The planet is very massive, so unless it has a correspondingly large radius, the gravitational acceleration at the surface is probably crushingly high. (As a rule, planetary accretion models suggest radii do not normally expand to keep up with mass, so massive rocky worlds most likely have crushing surface gravities).
The planet also revolves very close to a very small star, so it it probably gravitationally locked to it so the same side always faces the star. Even if it is in the habitable zone, it probably has very weird weather, and horrific wind storms as the atmosphere circulates heat from the sunny side to the shady one. If the atmosphere is too thin, one side will be frozen snow and ice and the other baked, dry and airless. Also, the primary is a red dwarf, prone to flares, so the surface is probably periodic doused by radiation.
We've been finding a lot of worlds like this, but not because they are necessarily very common. They just are easier to detect with our technology, so there still may be a lot more hospitable planets out there we just can't see.
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