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
BOSTON—An urban development site just launched by JLL Capital Markets is in a part of Boston long dominated by industrial operations where gentrification is poised to sweep in on a scale of massive proportions. Multiple accounts deem the 2.1-acre parcel being shopped for Hera Development Corp. among
SOUTH BOSTON—It has been hiding in plain sight for nearly 90 years, but 7 Elkins St. is coming into the limelight through a Cushman & Wakefield sales listing that some estimates see reaping upwards of $500 per sf for the laboratory building whose location is touted by C&W as “a path of progress” fee
SOUTH BOSTON—A new chapter has emerged in efforts to trade the prized Amrheins Restaurant site, home of the landmark eatery being offered for sale to feed an appetite for buildable parcels amid South Boston’s unfettered developm
FRANKLIN—Two first-class flex properties south of Boston, including a former Digital Equipment Corp. building here along Interstate 495, have been harvested by GFI Partners and the Matteson Cos. to a San Francisco-based investor via a $29.2 million deal that expands the buyer’s national footprint fo