Spotlights

2020 Ones to Watch: Brett Pelletier, Chief Operating Officer at Kirk&Company Real Estate Counselors

Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career? In 2019 advised the owners of the last remaining open parcel of land on Newbury St. in the Back Bay on a disposition strategy that

2020 Ones to Watch: Brandon Carr, Senior Project Manager at DiPrete Engineering

What advice can you offer to someone who is interested in a career in your industry? Earlier in my career, I would sometimes find myself too focused on just the design aspects of a project without taking into account the outside pieces of the project

The New England Real Estate Journal's 2020 Ones to Watch Spotlight

The New England Real Estate Journal's 2020 Ones to Watch Spotlight

Once we all trust each other we will be able to move forward and work in these unusual times - by Thomas Sweeney

As we get finished up with the ninth week of the COVID pandemic, we must realize that the entire globe is going through a major change. While everyone is affected both globally and nationally, our state governments are independently

How do we prepare the restaurant owner for the sales process? - by Dennis Serpone

Getting the owner to agree to our terms of engagement is only the first step in the consummation of a sale. Explaining the various steps and the mutual commitment to a successful Closing is crucial. Unless the seller understands, and believes

The T.R.I.C. formula of leasing; Term, Rental rate, Improvements and Credit history - by David Skinner

It’s been a few months of dealing with COVID-19 and some businesses are really hurting, but others are still doing quite well. Believe it or not, many businesses in the industrial sector have not seen significant slowdowns,

Reopening offices safely in response to government-mandated COVID-19 control plans - by Stephen Graham

To reduce the risk of infection by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), guidance was originally provided starting in February/March 2020 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

COVID-19 has illustrated our ability to adapt to seemingly insurmountable challenges - by Paul Natalizio

The ever changing effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have shaken the very substructure of our economy and have exposed our hidden vulnerabilities, but also have illustrated the country’s ability to adapt to seemingly

Kafkaesque Bureaucracy and the dubious morality of administrative law - by Roger Durkin

What is a Kafkaesque1 Bureaucracy? It is “a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself

Consequence of COVID-19 is that real estate is going to morph into something that it wasn’t before - by David O'Sullivan

We are all living in a different world than the one we expected at New Years of 2020. Our lives have been turned upside down and we have adapted to new procedures for work, shopping, eating, social events and schooling. One thing