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• April 25, 2011
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  Eastdil Hired to Sell 106,000-SF Marlborough Asset for New Boston Fund

  April 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH—On the cusp of trading a Cambridge laboratory facility, the New Boston Fund is spinning out another long-held Bay State property, the newest one being 33 Boston Post Rd. in the Interstate 495 West submarket.

• April 25, 2011
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  Special Servicer Puts 293,000-SF Hartford Trophy Up for Sale; C&W to Market Metro Center

  April 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  HARTFORD, CT—The foreclosure crisis is finally becoming an opportunity for investors seeking to scoop up commercial real estate below replacement cost, and the trend that has already taken hold across Massachusetts is now coming to roost here in Connecticut’s beleaguered capital city.

• April 18, 2011
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  Retail Trade Near $87M as Eight Retail Centers Trading in Deal Brokered by C&W

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON — Eight grocery anchored shopping centers stretching from Maine to Rhode Island are being scooped up by a joint venture of WP Realty and Angelo Gordon & Co., industry sources are telling The Real Reporter. Totaling 650,000 sf, the package listed by Cushman & Wakefield is said to be fetching

• April 18, 2011
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  Colliers Juggling $17M-Plus in Deals as Properties in Boston, Cambridge Put Under Contract

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—A former bank headquarters in the Financial District and a Cambridge lab property are the latest CRE opportunities nearing resolution in separate negotiations being handled by Colliers International. Sources have identified Charles River Realty Investors and National Development

• April 18, 2011
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  CBRE/NE Hired to Sell 125 and 150 CambridgePark Dr. for Barclays Capital

  April 18, 2011 | Joe Clements

  CAMBRIDGE—The Alewife submarket has struggled, and an overleveraged capital stack toppled over last autumn at 125 and 150 CambridgePark Dr., but both distressed properties are nonetheless hitting the sales block, with reluctant owner Barclays Capital hiring CBRE/New England to find a buyer for the

• April 07, 2011
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  $100M-Plus Target Seen as Eastdil Hired to Peddle Campus at Marlborough

  April 07, 2011 | Joe Clements

  MARLBOROUGH, MA—There may be trouble down below, but from its hillside perch, The Campus at Marlborough seems unaffected, continuing to attract high rents and the country’s hottest companies, most recently leasing 38,000 sf to coveted EMC Corp. spinoff VCE Systems. Owners of the three-building,

• April 05, 2011
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  RBJ officeSTATus Survey: 2011 Office Market a Numbers Game

  April 05, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Five, 80 and 15—that is how Richards Barry Joyce & Partners research chief Brendan Carroll quantifies Greater Boston’s office market as the second quarter of 2011 commences. Carroll’s generally upbeat Q1 report concludes that the top 5 percent best properties are sailing along, whereas the

• April 04, 2011
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  Comeback on Tap for Braintree Park after $6.9M Loan Payback by Owner Grossman Cos.

  April 04, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BRAINTREE—The family lumber operation’s once-ubiquitous “Here Comes Grossmans” slogan made them a household name across New England, but the Grossman Cos. could soon be also known as a comeback player for righting their landmark Braintree Executive Park, a two-building, 125,000-sf asset that has

• March 29, 2011
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  Davis Hires Stephen Rice, Marcus Tabs David Fiore to Run Respective CT Operations

  March 29, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Some breakups are more complicated than others, and then there are those that just seem that way. Case in point on the latter would seem to be the continued reshuffling of a partnership between investors Jonathan G. Davis and Paul R. Marcus, longtime colleagues who opted to go their separate

• March 28, 2011
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  Normandy Buys Needham Portfolio for $21M from Commonfund Realty and CC&F

  March 28, 2011 | Joe Clements

  NEEDHAM, MA—A package of properties acquired five years ago by Commonfund Realty and partner Cabot Cabot & Forbes has been sold for $21.05 million to Normandy Realty Partners. The transaction would appear to quash plans to erect a modern office park at the assemblage of properties, largely older

• March 28, 2011
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  Tewksbury Tenants Re-Up for 115,000SF at 495 Business Center in Deals Brokered by NKF

  March 28, 2011 | Joe Clements

  As they prepare for a volley of tenants seeking space in an improving economy, the owners of The 495 Business Center are also mindful of holding on to what they already have, and that strategy has led to a pair of sizeable five-year renewals

• March 21, 2011
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  Eastdil Dealing in Downtown Debt; Helps Normandy Refinance 99 Summer St. with $55M Capital One Loan

  March 21, 2011

  BOSTON— Capital One NA has stepped up with a fresh round of financing for 99 Summer St., the Hub’s red-roofed office tower owned by Normandy Real Estate Partners. A junior mortgage of $13.0 million was delivered along with another $42.0 million for New Jersey based Normandy, best known locally from

• March 19, 2011
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  Thirty Perwal St., HarborSouth on Cushman & Wakefield’s 2011 Sales Dais, Firm Says

  March 19, 2011 | Mike Hoban

  BOSTON—As with other St. Patrick’s Days in Boston, there was much wearing of the green and drinking of the beer this week, and for hundreds involved in commercial real estate, there was Cushman & Wakefield’s annual Top O’ the Market investment sales review and forecast. Typically geared for

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