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• January 06, 2012
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  Expert Sees Office Market ‘Slow’ for 2012

  January 06, 2012 | By Joe Clements

  BOSTON — “Bifurcated” is a popular word in business circles these days, but CresaPartners President Joseph Sciolla says that term is insufficient when describing the fractious office market entering another uncertain year.

• January 06, 2012
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  Industrial Sector Firmed Up in 2011

  January 06, 2012 | By Mike Hoban

  BOSTON — Industrial CRE brokers are reporting a solid 2011 overall—particularly for newer product—and are expecting its momentum to carry into the new year. “For 2011 in general, but especially from the second quarter to the fourth quarter, there was pretty good activity in the more modern faciliti

• January 06, 2012
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  Nordblom Poised for Lowell Trade As 2011 Holdover Deals Wrap Up

  January 06, 2012 | By Joe Clements

  SOUTHBOROUGH — After a hectic end to 2011 that saw a bevy of CRE sales finalized throughout Greater Boston, the opening throes of 2012 show little evidence of easing thanks to multiple transactions that have lingered into the new year. Ferris Development closed Thursday on an 80,000-sf Southborough

• January 06, 2012
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  Comeback Set for R.J. Kelly’s 23 Frontage Rd.

  January 06, 2012

  ANDOVER — Frontage Road—as the name suggests—is positioned prominently, enjoying a visible venue along the Interstate 93 business corridor, but one flex/office building here has languished in the shadows for over a decade, trapped in limbo by a tenant who inked a high-priced, unneeded lease just bef

• January 05, 2012
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  CBRE/NE Lures Multifamily Aces Butler and St. John From Cushman & Wakefield

  January 05, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Dramatically shaking up Boston’s multifamily sales landscape, superstar brokers Simon Butler and Biria St. John have jumped from Cushman & Wakefield to CB Richard Ellis/New England. The transfer is effective as of this week. “They are a great team and I wish them well,” Cushman & Wakefield

• January 03, 2012
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  BREAKING// Sources: State Street Corp. in Talks for Seaport District Build-To-Suit at Channel Center

  January 03, 2012 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—In a move considered a boon for the rapidly evolving Seaport District—but potentially damaging for other Hub office submarkets—State Street Bank Corp. is said to be deep in negotiations on a new build-to-suit structure that would be erected by Commonwealth Ventures, industry sources are

• December 27, 2011
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  One Exeter Plaza Sale Yields $112M for Ruben Cos. from AEW in Deal Brokered by C&W

  December 27, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Reflecting a forceful crusade to secure core real estate in proven business districts, the Back Bay’s famous Darth Vader building has traded for $112 million. Cushman & Wakefield negotiated the nine-figure deal as efforts continue to wrap up 2011 for investment sales by that firm’s Capital

• December 22, 2011
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  National Grid Charged Up Over LEED Gold Ranking

  December 22, 2011

  NORTHBOROUGH — Energy purveyor National Grid is celebrating the designation of its 800-employee customer service and control center as LEED Gold certified by the US Green Building Council. The designation—which follows National Grid winning the top-rated Platinum ranking for its Waltham headquarters

• 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

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