CAMBRIDGE—The office sector here has been as flat as stale soda for most of 2010, but thanks to a diversified tenant base and limited supply of new product, many observers anticipate a fervent fizz could soon have top landlords bubbling with enough confidence to selectively boost
BOSTON — Showing confidence despite the lingering regional downturn, KS Partners founder Kambiz Shahbazi has bought out two loans valued at more than $43 million on properties he controls here in the Hub and in Dedham, simultaneously shifting title to new partnerships whose backe
BOSTON — Jonathan G. Davis is looking to buy commercial real estate both far and near, or so it would seem from reports that the Hub-based investor who is stepping up a southeastern US platform also has a prominent office property in Boston’s Seaport District under agreement at a
In lauding Maria J. Krokidas upon being named Entrepreneur of the Year by New England Women in Real Estate, clients, colleagues and friends share one lament—the salutation was WAY overdue.
BOSTON—Owner Ruben Companies has recently executed lease transactions for a total of 50,025 sf of first class office space at One Exeter Plaza, a signature office building in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay. The agreements include International Data Group for 15,451 sf; the Consul
ACTON — At just $20 per sf, 100 Nagog Park is priced to move, and broker Matthew Pullen of CBRE/New England says suitors are responding in kind, scrambling for information on the 195,000-sf office building even as the marketing campaign kicks off during a normally languid period
WALTHAM—Suburban office buildings still face a prolonged convalescence from the economic malaise that has ravaged landlords nationally, but after spending nearly two years flat on their backs, that constituency is finally moving towards a recovery at the local level, according to
BOSTON—Even after enduring one of the harshest periods ever for retail real estate, a package of eight New England shopping centers that was pulled off the sales market in late 2008 appears to be none the worse for wear as owners Heitman and a California pension fund again try to
WOBURN—In a six-figure agreement that fills an empty building here and introduces a growing career training school to suburban Boston’s northern tier, the Porter & Chester Institute has leased all of 8 Presidential Way from the Campanelli Cos. and Commonfund Realty. Branded as Pr
NORTH CONWAY, NH — Aided by a renewed taste for retail-oriented real estate shared by investors and lenders, Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 5,130-sf Applebee’s Restaurant here at the bustling Settlers’ Green shopping outlet. Amounting to a capitalization rate of 9.
BOSTON—A mending economy and brisk leasing in select locations is offering hope that Boston’s brutalized office market has seen the worst of the latest downturn, but mid-year figures show continued erosion thus far in 2010, including an FHO Partners survey putting the availabilit
BOSTON — Only “infrequently” do multifamily investment opportunities come around with the attractions of Navy Yard 33, Cushman & Wakefield CRE veteran Simon J. Butler says of the 47-unit rental property that his firm’s Apartment Brokerage Group has been tabbed to pitch among inve
BRAINTREE — A 485,000-sf warehouse here plus industrial buildings in Canton and Stoughton comprise a portfolio of nearly 1.3 million sf being put up for sale by AMB Property Corp. The Boston office of Eastdil Secured’s Capital Markets Group has been hired to peddle the package, a