Headline News

• November 22, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  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
  Full Story
  News
  

  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
  Full Story
  News
  

  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
  Full Story
  News
  

  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
  Full Story
  News
  

  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
  Full Story
  News
  

  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

• October 27, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  Oracle Seen Buying 4 Van De Graaff Dr. as Capmark Moves to Trade Trophy Route 128 Asset

  October 27, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BURLINGTON, MA—Business software giant Oracle Corp. has emerged as winning bidder of 4 Van de Graaff Dr., sources are telling therealreporter.com, with pricing estimated around $16 million. The well-regarded 93,000-sf office building overlooking Route 128 was taken back this summer by Capmark

• October 26, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  USAA Trading 200,000-SF RI Asset; C&W Selected for $50M-Plus Listing

  October 26, 2011 | Joe Clements

  PROVIDENCE, RI—Rhode Island has had a choppy start to the decade, but a gleaming symbol of its success during the vibrant mid-2000’s is being made available here via Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets Group. The world headquarters of lottery technology company GTECH could fetch north of $50

• October 26, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  Mansard Pitching 264,000SF in Lowell as Long-Held Mixed-Use Property Offered at $8.9M

  October 26, 2011 | Joe Clements

  LOWELL, MA—One of the city’s most enduring property owners is offering up a diverse assemblage of Hamilton Canal District buildings, a 264,000-sf compilation that listing agent Jeremy Cyrier terms “a textbook value-add deal” featuring the treasured benefit of steady cash flow. The four-building

• October 26, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  Marlborough Street Fervor Still Hot as Nine-Unit Hub Apartment Building Reaps $3.7M

  October 26, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Perhaps it is gilt by association, or a sign that the value of Back Bay real estate extends past Newbury Street, but whatever the influences, Marlborough Street buildings continue to reap impressive results from investors. Following up on last month’s trade of a six-unit apartment building at

• October 25, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  Ruben Cos. Putting Hub’s One Exeter Plaza on Market; C&W Hired to Sell Landmark 210,000-SF Building

  October 25, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—An iconic Back Bay office mid-rise is being pitched to investors, as One Exeter Plaza joins a growing list of Class A properties being offered to core-centric capital willing to pay a premium for top product. Nicknamed the “Darth Vader Building” due to an architectural critic’s lasting

• October 24, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  Colliers Tabbed to Market 417,000-SF Sale/Leaseback Deal in Beverly; Pricing Set at $55M

  October 24, 2011 | Joe Clements

  BEVERLY, MA—For jittery capital seeking commercial real estate on the safe side of the street, Colliers International has a new listing Capital Markets team leader Lisa M. Campoli anticipates will be right up their alley. The 15-year sale/leaseback opportunity of the Axcelis Technologies world

• October 07, 2011
  Full Story
  News
  

  ‘Popup’ Stores Prop Up Retail; Halloween Stores Kick Off Holiday Season

  October 07, 2011 | Mike Hoban

  BOSTON—It is mere weeks now until All Hallows Eve comes to pass, and in the retail business, that means the beginning of the ‘popup’ season—short term lease stores— which have seen a dramatic increase in volume since the recession hit in 2008. The proliferation of Halloween-themed popup stores began

Previous Page | Next Page