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• July 23, 2012
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  NAI/Hunneman Effort Reaps $4.4M for Client

  July 23, 2012

  BROOKLINE — Talk about springing forward. Capping off a busy start to 2012 that resulted in CRE closings across metropolitan Boston for various owners, the NAI/Hunneman team of Carl Christie, Daniel McGee and Henry Lieber feted the change of seasons by finalizing a $4.4 million multifamily trade in

• July 16, 2012
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  Blackstone Announces Sale Closing of 362-Room Boston Hilton Financial District

  July 16, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A hotel in Boston’s Financial District is under new ownership after being traded for $160.0 million by Blackstone Investors. The Hilton Boston Downtown was acquired by DiamondRock Hospitality Co. of Bethesda, MD, an entity which already owns the Boston Westin Waterfront in the Hub’s Seaport

• July 12, 2012
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  Eastdil Reps Prologis in $29M Sale of 305 Forbes Blvd. in Mansfield to UBS

  July 12, 2012 | Joe Clements

  MANSFIELD—Signaling further confidence in suburban Boston’s industrial market, global real estate giant UBS Realty Investments has committed $29 million to acquire 305 Forbes Blvd. The 430,000-sf property that is 100 percent leased was sold on behalf of Prologis by the Capital Markets Group at

• July 02, 2012
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  Richards Barry Joyce: Lab Market Fills 647,000 SF

  July 02, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Anyone perusing Richard Barry Joyce & Partners’ new bioSTATus should heed one caution regarding the survey of Cambridge laboratory buildings: vacancies are not as gross as they might appear. “For the average tenant, it seems a lot tighter” than the 13.1 percent tallied in the review of 8.2

• June 29, 2012
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  Sources Say Beal Cos. Buying Quincy’s 350,000-SF Presidents Place for Near $40 Million

  June 29, 2012 | Joe Clements

  QUINCY—A pair of office buildings and seven-level garage are being acquired by the Beal Cos. of Boston, industry sources are telling therealreporter.com. The 350,000-sf Presidents Place complex at 1250 Hancock St. is being marketed by Cushman & Wakefield on behalf of a Lincoln Property Advisors’

• June 25, 2012
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  Sources Peg 50 Post Office Sq. as Main Target of Brown Brothers Harriman for New HQ

  June 25, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—When it comes to the battle for tenants between the city’s quickly emerging Seaport and the venerable Financial District, Commonwealth Ventures appears to have both bases covered. After luring global financial giant State Street Corp. to Channel Center for a new headquarters that will top 500

• June 22, 2012
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  Breault Aims for RE/MAX Commercial Real Estate Growth

  June 22, 2012 | Joe Clements

  NATICK — At 52, Daniel Breault is not facing a mid-life crisis — he is seizing a mid-life opportunity. “I love it,” Breault says in an interview with The Real Reporter shortly after his appointment as Regional Director for RE/MAX of New England. The Connecticut

• June 20, 2012
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  Seeking $90M-Plus, Colony Realty Partners Tabs C&W to Sell 1.2 MSF of Bay State Industrial

  June 20, 2012 | Joe Clements

  FRANKLIN, MA—Real estate investors possessing a hankering for industrial and $90 million or so in their pocket have an option in suburban Boston thanks to a portfolio encompassing an estimated 1.2 million sf being offered through Cushman & Wakefield, industry sources are telling therealreporter.com.

• June 13, 2012
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  Davis Cos. Buys Loan on 75,000-SF Office Building in Hub’s Hot Seaport District

  June 13, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—The Davis Cos. has returned to Boston’s Seaport District, a submarket considered among the most vibrant in New England after enduring decades of fits and starts as a business destination. The locally based investor has bought the loan backed by 24 Farnsworth St., a nearly vacant six-story, 75

• June 01, 2012
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  No Dice Yet on Eastie Casino Surge

  June 01, 2012 | Mike Hoban

  EAST BOSTON — With last week’s news that the townsfolk of Foxborough had effectively KO’d the Bob Kraft/Steve Wynn casino proposal, some may have speculated that Suffolk Downs would now have the inside track, and there would be a flurry of CRE activity in East Boston. But

• May 30, 2012
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  Boston Realty Advisors Pitching 91-Unit Apartment Package for Local Landlord

  May 30, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A tide of capital spurred forth by Greater Boston’s white-hot apartment arena has an opportunity to absorb assets in two leading neighborhoods, as a 91-unit portfolio in Allston and West Roxbury hits the streets this week. The holdings are being listed by Boston Realty Advisors on behalf of a

• May 27, 2012
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  Cornerstone Realty Arranges $9.5M Hub Refi

  May 27, 2012

  BOSTON — A $9.5 million refinancing of two Fenway apartment buildings is the latest such loan delivered through Cornerstone Realty Consultants, a Stoneham-based mortgage brokerage firm focused on the multifamily arena. The loan from Blue Hills Bank covers 165 and 171 Hemenway St., abutting structure

• May 27, 2012
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  HFF Brings Inn $48M To Build Boston Hotel

  May 27, 2012

  BOSTON — Showing signs of renewed vigor in the Hub’s hotel sector, Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has secured $48 million in construction financing through US Bank to erect a 175-room Residence Inn by Marriott that will be sited mere blocks from Fenway Park. The builder is Boylston Properties, a local

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