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• December 22, 2011
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  Metric Kicks Off ‘Net Zero’ Housing at Devens

  December 22, 2011

  DEVENS — Metric Corp. President Geoff Caraboolad joined MassDevelopment President and CEO Marty Jones this week to fete the launch of a dozen townhouses being built here on Bates Street, units dubbed by the sponsor as “super energy efficient” and yet also being touted as moderately priced and attrac

• December 22, 2011
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  Brewer Brokers 13,050-SF Southborough Lease Deal

  December 22, 2011

  SOUTHBOROUGH — A commercial property here at 150 Cordaville Rd. is preparing to welcome an energetic occupant after Inside Playground LLC signed on for 13,050 sf, a commitment aided by some fancy footwork on behalf of the broker, August Brewer of Greater Boston Commercial Properties. The 42,000-sf f

• December 22, 2011
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  HFF Brings Deutsche to Square One Mall

  December 22, 2011

  SAUGUS — They have both been on a nauseating rollercoaster ride during the past decade, but retail real estate and securitized debt have united at the Square One Mall through a permanent refinancing of the shopping center from a securitized lender, an affiliate of Deutsche Bank. Holliday Fengolio Fo

• December 22, 2011
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  Landlord Advisory Team Hits Stride

  December 22, 2011 | By Mike Hoban

  BOSTON — When FHO Partners launched its Asset Advisory Group four years ago, the idea was to develop a unit exclusively dedicated to representing landlords. By providing not only leasing services, but assisting owners in repositioning properties to best suit the tenant market, FHO hoped to carve a n

• December 22, 2011
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  C&W Multifamily Team Tops $500M

  December 22, 2011 | By Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Reflected by its second straight year exceeding a half-billion dollars in deal flow, the Cushman & Wakefield multifamily sales force has enjoyed a banner 2011, but the team led by Simon Butler and Biria St. John is putting an exclamation point on that performance in a late-season surge that

• December 22, 2011
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  Eastdil Wraps Up $610M Tower Sale As UBS Takes Over Exchange Place

  December 22, 2011 | By Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Beating Santa Claus to the punch, UBS Invest-ments delivered a welcomed present to the New England CRE sales community this week, finalizing the global real estate giant’s gargantuan purchase of Exchange Place for a whopping $610 million—or more than $500 per sf to land the 40-story Financi

• December 01, 2011
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  New Life on Tap for Funeral Home as BRA Brokers $3.5M Sale of Hub Asset

  December 01, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A new future appears imminent for 493-497 Commonwealth Ave., but just exactly what that might be for the erstwhile J.S. Waterman Funeral Home remains clouded following a New York firm’s acquisition of the three-building property that sits perched on the edge of Kenmore Square. Boston Realty

• December 01, 2011
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  Avison Young Adds New Listings, Staff to Growing Boston Operation

  December 01, 2011 | Mike Hoban

  BOSTON—It has been barely a year since Avison Young fused with Essex River Ventures to establish a Boston outpost, and less than four months since veteran broker John “Jack” Kerrigan Jr. and several Grubb & Ellis colleagues including Steve Cook arrived on the scene, but the Canadian-based real

• November 22, 2011
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  Brookfield Properties Fetches $600 Million For Exchange Place From UBS

  November 22, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A REAL REPORTER EXCLUSIVE STORY -UBS Investments is buying Boston’s 53 State St. office tower from Brookfield Properties, therealreporter.com has learned. “It is under agreement,” insists one market expert, with the pricing said to exceed $600 million for the building also known as Exchange

• November 22, 2011
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  Arbor Commercial Funding of $5.1M Backs Western MA Apartment Buys

  November 22, 2011

  WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA—A Brookline investor has acquired two garden-style apartment properties in western Massachusetts, picking up assets here and in neighboring Holyoke from the same ownership. Irwin Russell Oken’s purchases were backed by financing from Arbor Commercial Funding

• November 10, 2011
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  For $103 Million, Hines Gets its Campus

  November 10, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH — Hines Global REIT has finally lassoed its MetroWest prize, closing on the Campus at Marlborough after a protracted final chapter elongated by a loan assumption to complete the transfer. Hines, which earlier this year acquired a prime asset on Route 128, paid $103 million for the

• November 09, 2011
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  Shaw Group Inks 190,000-SF Canton Lease in Major Deal Negotiated by CLW   CBRE/NE

  November 09, 2011 | Joe Clements

  CANTON, MA—In one of suburban Boston’s largest leases of 2011, a Louisiana engineering firm that bought out Stone & Webster in 2000 has committed to 190,000 sf at 150 Royall St. here along Route 128 South. The high-end office building is occupied by owner OneBeacon Insurance, which is consolidating

• November 01, 2011
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  Jamestown Pays ‘Huge’ Price for 28 Newbury Street Assets in $226.5M Deal Brokered by Eastdil

  November 01, 2011 | Joe Clements

  It was assembled piecemeal over five years, but a portfolio of 28 Back Bay properties centered around Newbury Street has traded whole cloth to an Atlanta-based investor, a $226.5 million transaction likely to garner national—and perhaps international—notice. The beneficiaries are Taurus Investment

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