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• 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

• October 31, 2011
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  Blue-Chip MetroWest Asset Inks NASDAQ for 15,500SF

  October 31, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH, MA—The MetroWest has been a bear market for office landlords in recent years, but local owner David Ferris has had plenty of reasons to be bullish about 2011, especially upon landing a marquee tenant for his opulent office property at 325 Donald Lynch Blvd. NASDAQ Corp. will occupy in

• October 28, 2011
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  Annual United Way Real Estate Breakfast Program Raises $3M

  October 28, 2011 | Mike Hoban

  BOSTON—A crowd exceeding 1,100 corporate and community leaders battled the early morning cold and rain Thursday to support the United Way's 18th Annual Real Estate and Building Industry Leadership Breakfast at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center—and the United Way was the big

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