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• August 27, 2009
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  Brickstone Sq. Lands Four Firms In Latest Office Leasing Surge

  August 27, 2009 | Joe Clements

  ANDOVER—There is something old, something Nu, and a little bit of everything in between represented in the latest leasing spurt at Brickstone Square, the imposing, three-building business park along Interstate 495 near the key junction of Route 125. In addition to Old Republic Ti

• August 20, 2009
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  Repeat Users See 1031 Exchanges as The Gift That Keeps on Giving

  August 20, 2009 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—Broker Douglas Jacoby terms them “serial exchangers,” and most experts who handle that predilection acknowledge it is easy for real estate investors to get hooked on the 1031 Exchange idea. “The first time people do one, it’s a mystery, but after that, they reach a certain

• August 20, 2009
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  Children’s Selects Cannon Design for 50,000SF LMA Fit Out Project

  August 20, 2009

  BOSTON—In one of the larger interior fit out assignments this year, Cannon Design has been tabbed by Children’s Hospital to provide design and planning services for two additional floors being leased at the Center for Life Science Boston in the city’s Longwood Medical Area. Child

• August 20, 2009
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  Aiding a Reign in Pain, JLL Team Brokers $16.5M Queen Plaza Retail Sale

  August 20, 2009 | Joe Clements

  SOUTHINGTON, CT—For much of the decade, retail ruled supreme among commercial investment sales sectors, but while ravaged in the recessionary economy, there are signs a few loyal subjects remain eager to return to that kingdom. One measure of that desire could be found in the tra

• August 20, 2009
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  Dexter Park Bids Seen Near $125M

  August 20, 2009

  BROOKLINE—Discounting appears to be the name of the game for getting commercial real estate sales unhinged, but it appears there will be no such compromise in the case of Dexter Park, the 405-unit luxury apartment property being offered for sale here by owner UBS. According to in

• August 20, 2009
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  Reality, Reward Merge in $17M Sale

  August 20, 2009 | Joe Clements

  NEWTON—The $17.1 million sale of Two Newton Place comes with a bittersweet flavor for commercial real estate in general and the two parties involved, CrossHarbor Capital Partners and new owner HRPT Properties Trust, whose headquarters sits across from the three-story, 109,000-sf

• August 20, 2009
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  ME-Based RAM Cos. Charging Into Northern MA Flex Market

  August 20, 2009 | Joe Clements

  CHELMSFORD—The commercial real estate flex market has been in flux of late, but there is a measure of consistency from the interest of one prospective buyer who is actively seeking opportunities in suburban Boston. The RAM Companies of Scarborough, ME, is said to have two substan

• August 13, 2009
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  Asset Advisory Group at FHO Partners Aims to Stand and Deliver for Landlords

  August 13, 2009 | Joe Clements

  BOSTON—It might border on blasphemy to term them heaven-sent, but the Asset Advisory Group at FHO Partners certainly proved a good match when the First Church of Christ, Scientist needed guidance to fill 200,000 sf of office space at the institution’s Back Bay campus. During the

• August 13, 2009
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  Sources: Eastdil Being Hired To Sell 301 and 401 Edgewater Office Park

  August 13, 2009 | Joe Clements

  WAKEFIELD—The end did not come soon enough for the owners of 301 and 401 Edgewater Office Park, but having missed an opportunity to trade at the top of the cycle when a deal with TIAA-CREF fell apart late, the James Campbell Co. is again offering the two Class A office buildings

• August 13, 2009
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  Corcoran Hires CBRE/NE Multifamily Team, Puts Ten-Building Shrewsbury Asset on Block

  August 13, 2009 | Joe Clements

  SHREWSBURY—Its owners tout the Commons at Haynes Farm apartment community as having “an unbeatable location,” and regionally, the US Census Bureau would seem to agree, ranking Boston and Worcester as New England’s two largest cities. Sandwiched between those urban centers, Haynes

• August 13, 2009
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  $100M Bid Stirs Up Sales Market

  August 13, 2009

  BOSTON—The deal that almost never happened could prove to be among the Hub’s biggest for 2009. As first detailed by therealreporter.com on Monday, Zurich financial giant Credit Suisse has agreed to acquire Independence Wharf on Boston’s waterfront for more than $100 million, a pr

• August 13, 2009
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  Equity Reaps $21M in Portfolio Sale

  August 13, 2009 | Joe Clements

  STURBRIDGE—Equity Residential is giving thanks that the multi-family investment market has held up while other commercial real estate sectors remain wanting. Led by its $8.1 million sale of Sturbridge Meadows, a 104-unit apartment community nestled here in the land of the Pilgrim

• August 13, 2009
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  Winstanley Landing at Pease on Wings of $15M-Plus Investment

  August 13, 2009 | Joe Clements

  PORTSMOUTH, NH—New England’s commercial real estate sales market may be a mere shadow of its former self, but the Seacoast region is about to witness its second substantial industrial building deal in recent months, offering a measure of hope for the region’s long-range business

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