Three Under-the-Radar Boston Real Estate Trends You Missed in 2025
Beyond the headlines, several trends left their mark on local real estate, pointing to conditions to watch in the coming year.
Through the Fog, Boston’s Lodging Market Should Find Its Bearings
Economic and political headwinds have dampened travel spending and kept hotel operators focused on managing rising costs. Next year could be better.
Booking Numbers Reflect Tepid Tourism Climate in Mass.
After a year-over-year decline in bookings six months into 2025, the industry is pointing to a sequence of major events across Massachusetts that could help boost the sector into recovery in 2026.
Logan Passenger Numbers Up, But Massport Bracing for Tariff Impact
Buoyed by busy air travel at Logan Airport, the Massachusetts Port Authority is expecting a “very good fiscal year” while bracing for potential turbulence in connection with tariff impacts on travel and cargo patterns, CEO Rich Davey said Thursday.
Why Hotel Investors Are Lining Up in Boston
Boston’s hotel market offers a rare commodity in today’s CRE environment: predictable growth in a world of unpredictability.
Boston Hotel Market Trends for 2025
Boston’s strong and well-balanced economy has been key to the recovery of Boston’s hotel industry post-COVID, garnering strong interest from the investment community.
Hotels Benefit from Business Travel Rebound
Our outlook remains optimistic for the Boston market, fueled by group and convention travel, as well as an increase in global tourism and the absence of any significant new hotel developments.
Amid Limited Development, Hotel Owners Find Opportunity
Boston hotel operators are benefiting from the recovery of group demand, driving reservations connected to events at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
Air Travel Rebound Beating Massport’s Forecasts
Nearly 3.6 million passengers traveled through Logan Airport in April. That’s 9 percent more than was forecasted. And on a year-to-year basis, air travel is up 5 percent over what was expected
Beige Book Casts Bright Light on Mass. Tourism
A recent survey of banking and business contacts around New England found tourism to be a bright spot in the regional economy, one with a “very bullish” outlook for the remainder of 2024.
CRE Markets Lost Ground in 2022
After continuing to ascend driven by life science industry momentum through the early stages of the COVID era, Greater Boston’s commercial real estate industry felt the gravitational pull of financial markets’ tighter lending standards and industry layoffs in 2022.
No Room for Discounts as Hotels Recover
Shuttered hotels and skeleton-crew staffs are fading into distant memory as the Boston lodging market approaches a full financial recovery from the depths of their pandemic plunge.
Convention Biz, Vital to Hoteliers, Bouncing Back ‘Extremely Well’
After two years when its gathering halls were nearly empty of traditional big events, save for COVID vaccination clinics, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority officials have declared that they just completed their most successful financial year in history.
A Long-Term Horizon on Hotel Ownership
For four generations, Saunders Hotel Group has owned and operated properties that are on the short list of travelers visiting Boston. It gives Chairman Gary Saunders a useful position to gauge the future of Back Bay hotel market.
Boston Lodging Market Recovery Accelerates
The Boston and Cambridge lodging market has been slower to recover than most markets across the country. However, after more than two years since the pandemic began, the market is beginning to pick up speed.
Massachusetts Trails U.S. in Hotel Market Recovery
Boston was amongst the hardest hit regions during the pandemic. And the slow return of corporate, group and international travel has lengthened area hotels’ road to recovery.
Making the Case for Face-to-Face Business Meetings
Martha Sheridan, CEO of Greater Boston’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, has a new source of funding at her disposal to shore up the battered hospitality industry as 2022 opens with uncertainty.
COVID’s Real Estate Winners and Losers Have Come into Focus
We are two years into a once-in-a-century pandemic that has altered how we work, live, travel, socialize, do business – even what we ultimately value in life.
Massport Optimistic Despite ‘Softening’ Air Travel
Buoyed by a passenger surge in July, Massachusetts Port Authority officials are optimistic that the return of air travel through Logan International Airport is outpacing their earlier projections even as the Delta variant portends a forthcoming slowdown.
Hotel Rebound Begins with Leisure Travel
While the course of Boston’s hotel industry turned dramatically, Boston’s longstanding demand generators, industry growth and pent-up travel demand will help the city’s upcoming recovery efforts.
