
Maine Developer Adds to North Shore Portfolio
Scarborough, Maine-based RAM Companies acquired a Newburyport manufacturing facility to add to its portfolio of income-producing industrial and flex properties.
Scarborough, Maine-based RAM Companies acquired a Newburyport manufacturing facility to add to its portfolio of income-producing industrial and flex properties.
A Charlestown office building that was expanded under the ownership of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners sold to a Burlington developer for $9.5 million.
The 178-room hotel at 161 Devonshire St. was previously owned by Blackstone, which defaulted on a loan in 2023 for four Club Quarters hotel properties.
After a scramble for far-flung sites suitable for massive distribution centers, developers are adopting a defensive strategy as many of the latest generation of projects sit vacant.
Is 2025 the year of the Boston office comeback? Amid return-to-work mandates and a slight dip in office vacancy rates, there’s optimism in the air.
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Developers originally focused on life science tenants to fill office conversion projects are casting a wider net hoping to capture fast-growing climate tech industry startups. But this plan B has its own problems.
Asking rents for office space in Greater Boston declined in the third quarter as landlords competed to attract leases in a tenant-friendly market.
Watertown’s LINX lab development received $94 million in permanent financing from a Paris-based lender.
Declining rents and shorter employee commutes are prompting eastern Massachusetts companies to favor suburban office deals, according to local brokerage research.
Bohler Engineering will open a new regional headquarters at 50 Washington St. in Westborough after leasing 20,000 square feet at a property owned by Carruth Capital.
High cost of debt and the Federal Reserve’s diminished rate-cutting plans are weighing on property valuations and continue to discourage transactions in many asset categories, commercial real estate executives said at an industry forum.
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.
Federal Realty Investment Trust is delaying groundbreaking of a 381,529-square-foot life science project at Somerville’s Assembly Row, citing “oversaturation” in the lab development market.
While office tenants downsize, developers and brokers see a growing source of tenant demand for flex properties including a mix of office, research and light manufacturing space.
An EMC office building and data center in Hopkinton will be repositioned for R&D and flex tenants following its sale to a Boston developer.
Asking rents for life science space in Greater Boston have declined 10 percent from 2022’s peak and landlords are likely to offer further concessions amid a recent uptick in sublease space.
A new analysis by researchers at commercial brokerage JLL has concluded that a high level of amenities is the key difference between buildings that kept or gained tenants over the last four years, and those that lost tenants.
Boston-based developer Synergy made another bet on the future of the office market with acquisition of a 406,928-square-foot office tower in Downtown Crossing.
The developer that acquired the shuttered Silver City Gallery mall in Taunton will begin the first phase of a 147-acre business park after obtaining financing from BMO Harris Bank.