Tight Supply Stabilizes Boston Retail Market
Boston’s retail market is entering 2026 as one of the tightest in the country, but growth is becoming more selective.
Boston’s retail market is entering 2026 as one of the tightest in the country, but growth is becoming more selective.
The court-appointed attorney overseeing the upcoming sale of the demolished Riverview condos in Cambridge is in talks with local real estate firms as potential advisors on a redevelopment that could total at least 163,000 square feet.
Bostonians’ changing work habits and the new importance of delivery for restaurants’ revenue streams are upending traditional suburban leasing strategies and even reshaping what food and beverage tenants need in a potential space.
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is creating a potential gap in financing for Massachusetts affordable housing projects and risks for commercial landlords that have a concentration of tech and life science tenants.
Amazon and other ecommerce players aren’t the only ones on the hunt for vacant industrial and retail spaces to possibly convert into storage depots. And industry executives estimate the industrial-to-storage pipeline will accelerate as investors pour billions into it.
The $26.5 million sale of two Amesbury apartment properties illustrates strong demand for workforce housing properties that have remained highly-occupied during the pandemic, brokers say.
The Greater Boston self-storage sector has awakened from a decades-long slumber, as real estate investment trusts and other major investors jump into the market and sink millions of dollars into building new facilities and converting old industrial properties into storage depots in the region.
A Back Bay retail and office building anchored by Stephanie Saunders Art Gallery has sold for $10 million in its first change of ownership in nearly half a century.
Hanover Shopping Plaza sold last week for $6.25 million to a limited liability company.
A nine-unit apartment property in Brighton and a four-unit apartment building in East Boston have both sold.