Advice for Developers Fills the Luxury Market Niches
Over the past four decades in Boston-area luxury brokerage, Sue Hawkes has followed the market’s shifts during up-and-down cycles. Now, her firm is casting an eye towards the suburbs.
Wall Street Investors Return to Boston Bidding Pool
Institutional investors returned to bidder pools for apartment complexes on the market in Greater Boston during 2024, resulting in more competitive sales processes and driving up prices.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: AI Takes an Old Form
As banks experiment with new uses for AI, it’s showing up in some surprisingly old-fashioned ways in familiar places.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Barriers to Building
Local officials are getting creative with efforts to prevent development of new housing within their borders. Just answer these riddles, solve this Rubik’s cube, then…
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Looking Worse for Wear
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is fresh from Super Tuesday and rethinking her life choices.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Milton, Check Your Mailbox
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is paying a visit to Boston’s southern neighbor with a special delivery.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: A Short FAQ Document
Bankers are grappling with complex changes to Community Reinvestment Act regulations.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: New AML Regs
Uncle Sam is keeping an eye on finance fraud and money laundering.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: If at First You Don’t Succeed
WeWork founder Adam Neumann, broadly blamed by commentators for the company’s failure, is reportedly trying to buy the company back as it limps into bankruptcy.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Game Time
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll and Housing Secretary Ed Agustus are suiting up to lead two new panels intended to find new housing reforms that can boost home construction.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Subtle Signalling
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is trying a new, prop-based form of “forward guidance” in his latest public appearance.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: What a Great Investment
At least one industrial real estate developer is having buyer’s remorse thanks to a slowdown in that sector.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: NAR Merry-Go-Round
Step right up, folks! Ride the fastest ride in real estate: The National Association of Realtors President merry-go-round.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Dominoes Falling
With office buildings finally starting to sell in downtown Boston — often at huge discounts to pre-pandemic purchase prices — it’s not long before these falling dominoes hit city coffers.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Happy (?) New Year
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Sagamore Bridge, 1 Mile
The federal government just gave MassDOT $372 million to rebuild the Sagamore Bridge. But how’s the money going to get there?
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Or Else
Gov. Maura Healey’s got her hands on the big valve that controls state grants to local governments as the first big MBTA Communities zoning deadline nears.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Phil Eng’s Holiday Wish List
Jingle bells, jingle bells, please no catastrophes. Oh what fun it’d be to find enough funding for the T!
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Higher Commissions
A property in this week’s editorial cartoon has a lot of selling points. But some people care about them more than others.
Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: We (Don’t) Work
WeWork has had to make a post-bankruptcy adjustment to its signs in downtown Boston in this week’s editorial cartoon.
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