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2026 Mid-Year Review: Thomas Sweeney, Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal
June 26, 2026
What projects, initiatives, or types of work have been keeping your team busiest during the first half of 2026? Recently, our firm has been busy being a client ourselves. For 15 years, we have worked with property owners, developers, institutions, and businesses providing brokerage, appraisal, and advisory services across Rhode Island & Southern Massachusetts.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: National Restaurant Exchange
June 26, 2026
What projects, initiatives, or types of work have been keeping your team busiest during the first half of 2026? 2026 has been a water-shed experience. Since Covid-19, 2020, the food and beverage industry was slowly recovering, albeit in a limited sense. People are getting out of the house, socializing, and reconnecting at a favorite food emporium. However, over those past few years, the cost of operating has exploded.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Brown & Brown
June 26, 2026
What challenges or opportunities have had the biggest impact on your business during the first half of 2026? Industry experts point to several forces that will determine how much of today’s policy and financing momentum can translate into sustained affordability in 2026 and beyond. Interest rates remain the dominant variable and future cuts will flow into both construction and permanent financing over the coming year.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Prescott IOS
June 26, 2026
What trends or shifts have stood out most to you so far this year within your industry? The entrance of institutional buyers into the Industrial Outdoor Storage market has created challenges for tenants. These tenants have tended to be our clients, since we are focused on working with operating companies rather than investment groups.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Wason Associates Hospitality Brokerage Group
June 26, 2026
What projects, initiatives, or types of work have been keeping your team busiest during the first half of 2026? It has been extremely busy first half in 2026. We have a number of hotel properties under agreement and to close in the next couple of months. Many of these sales are of hotels that were not openly marketed but had multiple offers as the inventory of hotels for sale is low and buyer demand is high.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: J&M Business Capital
June 26, 2026
As we look ahead to the second half of the year, what are you watching most closely? Key issues to watch in 2026 will be interest rate direction and capital markets. The biggest variable remains the trajectory of interest rates. Even modest declines in borrowing costs could significantly improve acquisition economics, refinance activity, and property values.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Dacon Corporation
June 26, 2026
What projects, initiatives, or types of work have been keeping your team busiest during the first half of 2026? Dacon has long been strongly positioned in the industrial sector, including manufacturing and distribution facilities, historically accounting for approximately 50% of our project portfolio. Today, that figure has grown to roughly 75-80% of our workload.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: The Geenty Group, Realtors - Commercial Industrial Real Estat...
June 26, 2026
What challenges or opportunities have had the biggest impact on your business during the first half of 2026? Hesitancy is a forbidden word, but it also creates opportunities for landlords and tenants. Opportunities to refit and freshen existing spaces, renegotiate lease extensions and expand in place which can be a boon to tenants - moving is expensive, time consuming and disruptive.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Wilder
June 26, 2026
What trends or shifts have stood out most to you so far this year within your industry? One of the biggest shifts we’ve seen this year is a meaningful change in how investment capital views retail – particularly suburban, open-air assets. What was once considered contrarian is now widely accepted, with these properties delivering some of the most attractive risk-adjusted returns in commercial real estate.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Green Leaf Construction
June 26, 2026
What trends or shifts have stood out most to you so far this year within your industry? We have also taken a hard look at how we work with our subcontractor partners and the answer, more than anything, comes down to relationships. In an uncertain market, the contractors who get the best pricing, the most reliable commitments, and the most responsive teams are the ones subs want to work with.
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Shepherd Associates LLC
June 26, 2026
What trends or shifts have stood out most to you so far this year within your industry? Dramatic technologic shifts are taking place that are profoundly impacting on real estate valuation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impacts. Appraisers – both residential and commercial - need to confront the challenges and opportunities that the full emergence of Artificial Intelligence bring as an essential tool.
Boston Seaport heats up for summer as Boston welcomes the world: From FIFA World Cup 2026 and Sail B...
June 24, 2026
Boston, MA As FIFA World Cup 2026 unfolds across North America and Boston celebrates a historic summer marked by Sail Boston, Harborfest, and America 250, Boston Seaport by WS is a
2026 Mid-Year Review Featured Company: Greater Boston Exchange Company, LLC
June 26, 2026
What projects, initiatives, or types of work have been keeping your team busiest during the first half of 2026? The 1031 exchange market has been robust in the first half of 2026, even while interests have remained elevated for the past few years. So, while the typical forward 1031 exchange is still quite active, we have seen a greater awareness and knowledge of the various types of 1031 exchanges by investors.
Company of the Month: The Work Shows - A Mid-Year Reflection from Ellis Realty Advisors
June 26, 2026
Hingham, MA A sharp edge is treated with a rounder curve. A bold typeface gives way to something more conversational. A cool purple warms up a few degrees. These subtle changes Ellis Realty Advisors (ERA) made to its visual identity in 2026 reflect the way ERA has always approached its work, with an emphasis on accessibility, curiosity, and a dedication to service that gets results for their clients. Now mid-way through 2026, the work the refresh made possible is well underway.
Wilder opens Patriot Cinema at Freeport Village Station
June 24, 2026
Freeport, ME According to Wilder, Patriot Cinemas has opened a new six-screen movie theater at Freeport Village Station, bringing a highly anticipated entertainment experience to downtown. A family-owned, independent theater operator serving Massachusetts and Maine since 1962, Patriot Cinemas will occupy a 15,700 s/f space at the center.
Suffolk launches “Jobsite of the Future” to redefine how we Build
June 26, 2026
Boston, MA Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful builders in the country, formally launched Jobsite of the Future, a first-of-its-kind AI-enabled operating model designed to transform how construction projects are delivered nationwide.
Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects transitions ownership as the firm celebrates 50 years of service
June 26, 2026
Hopkinton, MA As Gorman Richardson Lewis Architects (GRLA) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026, the firm is planning an ownership transition that positions the company for continued growth while honoring the legacy of one of its founders.
Construction to restore affordable housing begins at Warren Hall
June 26, 2026
Brighton, MA Construction and restoration has begun on affordable housing units at the historic Warren Hall building, following the closing of financing, a collaborative effort between Allston Brighton CDC (ABCDC), Schochet, Mayor’s Office of Housing at the City of Boston (MOH), Community Economic Development Assistance Corp. (CEDAC), MassHousing, and the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), with private sector equity provided by R4 Capital and Dorfman Capital.
Chapman Construction/Design awarded Akebia Therapeutics headquarters project
June 26, 2026
Waltham, MA Chapman Construction/Design (Chapman), a construction management company specializing in high-performance building, has been awarded the construction of a new headquarters space for Akebia Therapeutics at the 180 CityPoint life sciences building.
Wayne J. Griffin Electric, Inc. completes electrical and telecom work on Deerfield Academy’s revam...
June 26, 2026
Deerfield, MA Wayne J. Griffin Electric, Inc. (Griffin Electric), a leading electrical contractor throughout New England and the Southeast for nearly five decades, recently finished an electrical renovation on a 62,000 s/f dining hall at Deerfield Academy.