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• November 15, 2012
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  Election to Acquire President’s Place Has Beal on Cusp of $44M-Plus Deal

  November 15, 2012 | Joe Clements

  QUINCY — Media attention might not match energy levels felt in the US Presidency tilt, but President’s Place is preparing to welcome a new leader as the Beal Cos. is expected to acquire the 350,000-sf office complex this week backed by South American capital. The hotly contested property is being

• November 05, 2012
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  Apartments Find Home Along Boston Skyline

  November 05, 2012 | MICHAEL COYNE AND TRAVIS D’AMATO

  BOSTON — Up go the cranes. Boston’s skyline is changing. Except this time, the new glass and steel towers will not be filled with tenants scrambling for the exits at rush hour. Instead, they will be taking the elevators up at night. New luxury apartment towers are sprouting up throughout the city.

• November 05, 2012
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  Hamilton Co. $18.5M Apartment Deal Part of Busy Week for Harold Brown

  November 05, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Octogenarian Harold Brown’s place in New England business lore was further cemented this week upon receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Institute for Real Estate Management, a prestigious trade group that recognized an event-filled journey dating 60 years that has brought his Ham

• October 26, 2012
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  KS Partners Pays $65M to New Boston for 620,000-SF Connecticut Office Park

  October 26, 2012 | Joe Clements

  ROCKY HILL, CT — Ramping up its CRE portfolio at an unprecedented scale, KS Partners has secured a portfolio of high-end office buildings here in this suburban community located off Interstate 91 just south of Hartford. The $65 million purchase from New Boston Fund that closed on Thursday encompasse

• October 19, 2012
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  CBRE/NE Wins Coveted CT Listing; Mixed-Use Asset Could Reap $120 Million

  October 19, 2012 | Joe Clements

  WEST HARTFORD, CT — As if CBRE/New England’s Capital Markets Group was not already busy enough after negotiating September’s $62.5 million Woburn Mall sale and a 35- asset portfolio of bank branches last week that fetched a healthy $57 million, the firm’s retail sector acumen is paying off again in

• October 09, 2012
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  Sources: Upscale 180-Unit Abington Apartment Complex Being Sold to Greystar by Heritage Cos.

  October 09, 2012 | Joe Clements

  ABINGTON—Continuing to expand its presence in New England, Greystar is acquiring 180 modern luxury apartments in this South Shore community, industry sources are indicating to therealreporter.com. The South Carolina firm that has a national platform focused on multifamily development, investment and

• October 09, 2012
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  Hancock Tabs HFF to Sell 200,000-SF Waltham Place Office Park; Pricing Seen Near $40M

  October 09, 2012 | Joe Clements

  WALTHAM—Things look a lot better these days for the epicenter of suburban Boston’s office market, and the same can seemingly be said for 266 and 275 Second Ave., a pair of first class office buildings battered by the 2008 recession but now stabilized after a spirited lease-up campaign. Given back to

• October 01, 2012
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  Cabot Properties Pays $78.5M for US Portfolio; Deal Includes 300,000 SF of MA Industrial

  October 01, 2012 | Joe Clements

  PEABODY—A prominent flex/industrial building at the gateway to Centennial Park is among three Massachusetts assets acquired by Cabot Properties in a $78.5 million portfolio purchase that covers holdings in Dallas, Greater Philadelphia and Phoenix. Seller Columbia Industrial Properties has an

• September 24, 2012
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  ‘Hotly Contested’ Colony Realty Portfolio Listed by C&W Being Sold to PA Firm for Hefty $90M-Plus

  September 24, 2012 | Joe Clements

  FRANKLIN—Exeter Street is a well-known thoroughfare in Boston. Exeter Property Group is a Pennsylvania CRE investor who soon will also be well known locally, with the private equity firm following up on a Billerica single-asset purchase by agreeing to acquire a 1.2-million-sf portfolio from Colony

• September 20, 2012
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  Harvard Squared: BRA Gets Second Prime Listing of 2012 in Famed Cambridge District With 18-28 JFK St

  September 20, 2012 | Joe Clements

  CAMBRIDGE—Investors clamoring for core investments in metropolitan Boston have another option to choose from, this time in a mixed-use commercial property at 18-28 JFK St. that houses a Pizzeria Uno restaurant and 16 upper level apartments. The 27,700-sf building that has 12,000 sf of prime retail

• September 19, 2012
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  CBRE/NE Lines Up CHR for 580-Plus Framingham Apartments, Tops $400M in YTD Multifamily Sales

  September 19, 2012 | Joe Clements

  FRAMINGHAM—Fueled by constricted supply and record legions of apartment renters, multifamily fever is migrating from downtown venues to the suburbs, with the latest example unfolding in this MetroWest mainstay where Chestnut Hill Realty is in negotiations to purchase nearly 600 units in two well-reg

• September 18, 2012
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  $8 Million New Hampshire Buy Puts Albany Road on Map

  September 18, 2012 | Joe Clements

  AMHERST, NH — There has not been an Albany Road in this Manchester suburb— until now. Marking the inaugural buy for Albany Road Real Estate Partners, TD Bank this week dispatched Amherst Crossing to the Boston-based firm, concluding a foreclosure ordeal and mid-summer auction of the 130,000-sf

• September 17, 2012
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  28 Newbury St. Hires HFF to Sell 19,000-SF Retail Asset Leased to Banana Republic

  September 17, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Sporting Banana Republic as its sole tenant, the owner of 28 Newbury St. has retained Holliday Fenoglio Fowler to harvest the four-story, 19,050-sf building, according to industry sources, with one estimate suggesting that pricing could approch the $25 million range. “It’s on the market,”

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