With a combination of low vacancy, high demand and some of the highest asking rents in the country, life science properties in the Boston metro are more desirable than ever for investment firms, both large and small.
A 3-story Waltham building that hosts a Boston Sports Club has sold to an investment firm for $32.1 million.
Hobbs Brook Management is reinventing its first office building, at 225 Wyman St. in Waltham, with a 507,000-square-foot speculative office and lab building at the same time it adds new leadership with September’s arrival of new CEO Sam Schaefer.
As development momentum in Boston builds, how can designers and developers balance the city’s historic integrity with the demands and expectations of future residents?
Boston Properties is adding to its suburban portfolio with the $106 million acquisition of a 28-acre Waltham office park.
Massachusetts’ biotech industry is rapidly growing, but a new report makes clear just how much.
The largest class A office building along Route 128 will go up at the hands of Gilbane Building Co. workers.
Million-dollar home sales are starting to pop up in some of the unlikeliest places as prices across Massachusetts shatter records. A decades-long slump in new residential construction in the Boston area has created a dire shortage of homes for sale, driving up prices across the board and putting a premium on anything new or recently renovated.
Special permits have been approved for conversion of a 53-year-old office building overlooking Route 128 into a 140,000-square-foot lab complex.
Wolters Klewer is adding 20,000 square feet to its office space at 230 CityPoint in Waltham to accommodate the growth of its health care division.
The Waltham-based online payments technology company BlueSnap is expanding its headquarters in order to accommodate growth.
Upgrading office and industrial buildings to lab-ready space is paying off for a growing field of developers hoping to snare the next hot biotech startup transitioning from early-stage research to commercialization.
During his 22-year career, Adam Sichol has had a front-row seat on the life science industry’s expansion into Greater Boston’s most dynamic commercial real estate sector and played a hand in companies’ growth and relocations.
The Grossman Cos. is expanding its retail portfolio with the $18.2 million acquisition of a Hannaford supermarket.
While online real estate giant Zillow’s foray into mortgage lending might seem scary initially, it is unlikely to have too much of a detrimental impact on local, more personalized lenders, those same lenders say.
The Massachusetts real estate market is poised for another seller’s market across large swaths of the state this spring – as long as sellers keep their expectations in check and don’t ask for overly high prices, market-watchers say.
Hobbs Brook Management will break ground this spring on 225 Wyman St., a 500,000-square-foot speculative office and lab project that will comprise the largest contiguous class A building on Route 128.
A major Waltham landlord has announced plans to build what it says will be the largest contiguous class A office building ever built along Route 128’s technology belt.
Greater Boston’s life science hub has outgrown its birthplace in Kendall Square/East Cambridge. Today, the area boasts a 0 percent direct vacancy rate for Class A laboratory space and rental rates approaching $100 per square foot, triple net.
Some local officials’ reasons for deploying the “nuclear option” of eminent domain in Brockton, Waltham and Hopedale should trigger warning lights.
