Spotlights

2024 Year in Review: Josh Soley, CORE

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?
Acquiring the Kittery Shopping Center earlier this year highlights the importance of breathing new life into underutilized properties. This 24,000 s/f space presented a great opportunity to address

2024 Year in Review: Nate Nickerson, Fieldstone Commercial Properties Inc.

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?
In 2024, Fieldstone Commercial completed four leasing transactions in class B office buildings along the I-495 corridor, totaling 40,000 s/f. These deals reflected a mix of traditional office tenants and flex/manufacturing users,

2024 Year in Review: Scott Bates, Erland Construction

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?
Over the past year, Erland was retained by Capstone Development Partners, LLC, as construction manager for two major design/build residence hall projects at Clark University and Tufts University. Both are Public-Private Partnerships (P3s), a model increasingly popular in higher education. P3s help universities reduce costs,

2024 Year in Review: David Skinner, Prescott

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? 
Prescott arranged a lease between a local property owner and Turner Construction with a high watermark rental rate, which shows us that the demand for industrial outdoor storage is as strong as it’s ever been, and supply is short.

2024 Year in Review: Dennis Serpone, The National Restaurant Exchange

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? 2024 will close out as the most successful and busiest in 45 years. The National Restaurant Exchange is recognized as the go-to resource for restaurant groups looking to add to their portfolios and conversely, given the need to sell, National has become the most responsive in finding the appropriate buyer.

2024 Year in Review: Amir Kripper, Kripper Studio

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? 
Completing the luxury multi-unit Stearns Residences for ADCO Realty because it is an infill project that respects the surrounding scale and aesthetic of the Brookline neighborhood

2024 Year in Review: Nadine Ezzie, ezzie + co.

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? 
ezzie + co. is proud to be a leading advisor on the impact of AI within commercial real estate. 2024 saw an increased demand from firms seeking counsel from attorneys and advisors embracing this revolutionary

2024 Year in Review: Allan Cohen, Mass. Board of Real Estate Appraisers

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? 
Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Appraisers (MBREA) celebrated its 90th anniversary as the leading professional association of real estate appraisers in New England.

2024 Year in Review: Dan Gardner, DMG Brokerage

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?
150 Church St. Pembroke, Self Storage Development, shows that developers are still active even in competitive interest rates and construction costs.

2024 Year in Review: Bob Costa, B.C. Tent & Awning Co., Inc.

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? 
The trend of outside dining continues, for some restaurants even in cold-weather months. This has provided an opportunity for us to demonstrate what tents are capable of.