A Compendium of Property & Capital News
WESTFORD—Risk-averse institutional capital often balks at straying beyond Boston’s urban center for CRE investments, but CBRE’s new Lone Star Funds listing here appears to have piqued the interest of some in that capital constituency’s thanks to the stablized nature of One Robbins Rd., a 298,000-sf
SOMERVILLE—In a transformational Boynton Yards sale orchestrated by ABG Commercial Realty, DLJ Real Estate has paid $23 million for a three-acre parcel next door to a speculative laboratory building the investor and Leggat McCall Properties are constructing within one mile of Cambridge’s Kendall Squ
CONCORD—These are banner days at Middlesex Green, the four-building, 222,000-sf office park re-energized by Paradigm Properties which is following up on a busy spring and summer on the leasing front with its largest commitment to date and other deals nearing conclusion. The momentum is headlined in
WALTHAM—It seems like just yesterday Davis Marcus Partners was rolling out 840 Winter St. for sale through Cushman & Wakefield, and the timing was in fact early May when the 135,325-sf health-and-wellness facility was introduced by Real Reporter as a cash-flowing opportunity even with a 26,950 sf va
BOSTON—Extra traffic is expected this autumn near Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the catalyst being CRE prospectors touring 77 and 81 Park Dr., elegant apartment properties now available to investors for the first time in a half-century. Fifty five units in two buildings enjoying views of the MFA and
BOSTON—The Davis Cos. is welcoming an old/new friend to its 375,000-sf property at 88 Black Falcon Ave., a rare industrial and office amalgam surrounded by water on three sides at its perch on the outer limits of Boston’s booming Seaport District. Via a recapitalization arranged by NKF that is expec
BOSTON—Along with the likes of London, New York City and Paris, Qatari capital is making Boston a popular hunting ground for commercial real estate, or so it would seem amid rum
CAMBRIDGE—After a fast-paced battle targeting 922 Massachusetts Ave., New York-based Columbia Partners has taken the prized 31-unit apartment building in teeming Central Square offered this spring through Boston Realty Advisors. The Emerson fetched $11.5 million and was financed with $7.5 million fr
BOSTON—Akelius US has made buying in Boston a habit since its $152.5 million deal securing 255 modern Seaport apartments in autumn 2015, but there is a twist in the Swedish investor’s latest local conquest, also in South Boston, that a 23,600-sf office and retail building at 40 Channel Center, with
CAMBRIDGE—A blockbuster life sciences sale is percolating here in this city’s western flank where Davis Cos. and Invesco will reportedly trade a distinctive 224,000-sf laboratory building to HCP Inc. Despite silence from parties involved, Real Reporter sources claim the California REIT targeting hea
BOSTON—There are many familiar figures—the venerable office building among them—in a looming downtown trade between Clarion Partners and Synergy Investments as sellers and Independencia Asset Management as winning suitor for 100 Franklin St. following a spirited campaign by Newmark Knight Frank. Sou
WALTHAM—Although the appetite for suburban office product regionally has ebbed a bit this season due to investors being laser-focused on the urban core, at least one first-class Route 128 asset is garnering attention from a hometown heavyweight, with sources claiming Boston Properties is buying the
BOSTON—It seems Brookfield’s harvesting of 75 State St. is about to end at the beginning, with CRE sources telling Real Reporter that DivcoWest and Rockpoint Group are poised to acquire the striking gold-leafed office tower in Boston’s CBD through a Newmark Knight Frank exclusive said to be deliveri
