MassHousing had its best lending year in state history in fiscal year 2009, providing more than $753.2 million for affordable housing.

Newton REIT Hospitality Properties Trust has priced an underwritten public offering of $300 million of 7.875 percent unsecured senior notes due 2014.

River’s Edge, the new office and residential development at the Medford-Malden line, has been hailed as a national model for brownfields redevelopment. Crew teams now row on the once-fetid Malden River. Trash-strewn post-industrial lots have been replaced by Class A office space, luxury apartments and parkland. Planners in Medford, Malden and Everett are already looking to replicate the site’s successes across the river, at the site of a former General Electric plant.

Hub developer John Hynes appeared destined to become a 21st century international real estate star.

A local William Raveis Realtor to debut on the small screen, a Milbury ice cream stand gets cited by MassDEP and Berkshire Hills Bancorp cleans up any name confusion.

Since taking the reins of the project management firm RF Walsh, Jack Hobbs augmented the firm’s name, narrowed its focus and relocated into new digs in Boston’s Seaport. “The name Collaborative Partners was something we all believed really represented what we do,” Hobbs says. “That commitment we bring to the table, the way we do business, who we are – clients pick that up, and they hire us again and again.”

Science Applications International Corp. has leased 11,500 square feet of space at Beaver Brook Industrial Park in Waltham.

FTG Technologies, an enterprise solutions provider, has leased 10,792 square feet at 2 Batterymarch Park in Quincy.

CB Richard Ellis Realty Trust of Princeton, N.J. has purchased a 238,370-square-foot, newly completed Class A warehouse/distribution building in Bellingham.

Newton REIT Senior Housing Properties Trust reported second quarter net income of $30.5 million, compared to net income of $21.7 million for the same period in 2008, a 40.5 percent increase.

Civil and building construction company, Tutor Perini Corp. of Framingham, has reported second quarter net income of $38.9 million, up 36.2 percent from $28.6 million a year ago.

Private equity firm Blackstone Group reported a jump in second quarter profit Thursday, topping Wall Street expectations, and said it would pay a full quarterly distribution to shareholders.

California real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., operator of more than 35 properties in Cambridge and Greater Boston, has reported net income of $44.1 million for the second quarter, compared to $27.8 million for the same period in 2008 – a 58.6 percent increase.

Winthrop Realty Trust, a Boston REIT, has posted a net loss for the second quarter of $71.2 million, following to a net loss of $24.1 million for the same period a year ago.

Newton REIT Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) has reported a second-quarter net income of $51 million, compared to a net loss of $19.5 million in the same period last year.

Archstone Avenir, a mixed-use retail and residential development in Boston’s Bulfinch Triangle, is set to open next week.

Real estate services and investment firm Grubb & Ellis Co., which has significant operations in the Bay State, has reported a second-quarter net loss of $32.8 million, compared with a net loss of $5.4 million in the same period a year ago.