Butler, St. John, McLaughlin and Bowler of CBRE handle sale of SoMa Apartments

Boston, MA Representatives of CBRE, led by Simon Butler, Biria St. John, John McLaughlin, and Brian Bowler completed the sale of SoMa Apartments, a 347-unit, workforce housing apartment community located in the city’s southern Mattapan neighborhood. 

CBRE exclusively represented the seller, The DSF Group, a privately held multifamily real estate investment company and CBRE also procured the buyer

Originally built between1965 and 1968, SoMa Apartments is comprised of 12 four-story residential buildings and a single-story leasing office and maintenance shop. The apartments are spread over a 7.1-acre site and offer a mix of studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartment homes, with an average apartment size of 829 s/f. The property offers a convenient location with excellent access to MBTA transit as well as major highways in minutes. SoMa Apartments sits adjacent to the Blue Hills MBTA Commute Rail in Boston’s Mattapan Square, which provides direct service to Downtown. 

Butler said, “We are pleased to have represented the seller in the sale of SoMa Apartments, having sold it to them in 2018. Our client successfully executed their business plan.”

“We are pleased to have successfully executed our repositioning strategy on SoMa Apartments in Boston,” said Josh Solomon, President of The DSF Group.

CBRE Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is one of the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firms (based on 2024 revenue). The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. 

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