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Hotel performance is on a roll, but for how long?

If you had the foresight and courage, there were many hotel bargains to pick up two to three years ago. In 2012, I made the case for the gla...

Brady Sullivan Properties purchases City Hall Plaza at 900 Elm Street for $19.75 million

Brady Sullivan Properties has completed their newest acquisition, 900 Elm St., also known as City Hall Plaza. The historic and iconic office...

Acentech, Inc. develops noise control guidelines and provided architectural acoustics consulting for Assembly Row

Acentech Inc., a nationally recognized multi-disciplinary acoustics, audiovisual systems design, and vibration consulting firm, has develope...

RKB Architects designs new 12,000 s/f HomeScapes showroom for Cape Cod Lumber in Abington, Mass.

For more than 50 years, Cape Cod Lumber (CCL) has been supplying high quality lumber, building materials, windows, doors and kitchen cabinet...

Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Equity Office purchase 399 Boylston Street for $117 million

399 Boylston St. was sold to an affiliate of Blackstone Real Estate Partners and its portfolio company, Equity Office, for $117 million. The...

The Hamilton Company purchases 1117 Commonwealth Avenue and 106 Cambridge Street for $3.1 million

The Hamilton Company has purchased two commercial buildings in the city - 1117 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston and 106 Cambridge St. in Governm...

Sadecki named associate at Meyer & Meyer, Inc. Architecture and Interior Design

Meyer & Meyer, Inc. Architecture and Interior Design, appointed Nancy Sadecki, RA to associate. Sadecki has been with the firm for over 8 ye...

SIOR New England chapter O'Brien as 2014 Robert W. Holmes Scholarship Recipient

According to SIOR New England Chapter, Inc., Timothy O'Brien has been awarded the 2014 Robert W. Holmes SIOR Scholarship at the 15th Annual ...

KeyPoint Partners, LLC takes on new leasing, management assignments

KeyPoint Partners, LLC has added several new assignments to its portfolio, according to Bob Lemons, the firm's managing partner. Combined le...

Three common mistakes in cap rate calculations

Don't assume your clients fully understand capitalization rate (cap rate) analysis. Cap rate is an important concept in commercial real esta...