Spotlights

2025 Ones To Watch - Rising Stars:
Madeline Ursini, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

What’s one challenge you’ve overcome in your career so far, and what did it teach you? I joined PSH as a second- year associate with a tax law background but limited contract drafting experience. From the outset, I drafted contracts for diverse transactions, including tax credit financings,

2025 Ones To Watch - Rising Stars:
Erin Vautour, South Coast Improvement Company

If you could give advice to someone just starting out in your field, what would it be? My advice to someone just starting in my field would be to take the time to learn your role and then push yourself to go beyond it. Understand your company, the policies, and the processes. Get to know

2025 Ones To Watch - Rising Stars:
Samira Da Silva, Bridgeline Exteriors

What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I am particularly proud of successfully developing and implementing a new process for our Accounting Department aimed at optimizing the company’s finances. This initiative involved in- depth research

2025 Ones To Watch - Rising Stars:
Orazio Guevara, Chapman Construction/Design

What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I am incredibly proud of two recent milestones: my promotion to Assistant Project Manager And the successful completion of the Brightview Wakefield Memory Care project. Navigating sensitive

2025 Ones To Watch - Rising Stars:
Stephanie Crepeau, BOND Building Construction

What’s one challenge you’ve overcome in your career so far, and what did it teach you? I stepped into a role held by a long- tenured male Superintendent. At first, I felt intensely measured against his established presence. Every perceived misstep felt magnified by this comparison. Finally,

How long should I hold a property for it to qualify as an investment property in connection with a 1031 tax-deferred exchange? - by Brendan Greene and Mark McCue

Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 provides “No gain or loss shall be recognized on the exchange of property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment if such property is exchanged solely for property of like kind which is to be held

The resilience of markets - by William Pastuszek Jr.

In an era of uncertainty – uncertainty and unpredictability taken to new heights – real estate markets find ways to seek rational paths towards solutions under conditions of uncertainty. It’s a truism in investment behavior that markets can adapt to

A look at the Fed’s report on real estate in New England - by Thomas House

So it seems a good time to share some of the gold (and coal) we mined from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s report on real estate in New England. A link to the full report is at the end of the article.

There are a number of hotel groups that look for the full-resort properties - by Earle Wason

I cannot remember when I first started writing articles for the New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ). I took some time to review articles I have written going back to the early 2000s but I believe I originally started sometime in the 1980s. I thought there

The times they are a-changin’: From Boomers to Zoomers and real estate - by David Skinner

In the last two weeks, I met with two different business owners who are closing their businesses at the end of 40+ year histories of being in business. One was a trucking company that at one time boasted 40 trucks on the road. Another was in the buying and selling food