Spotlights

50 Year Billboard Anniversary Q&A - Robert Conrad

Name: Robert Conrad Title: President & Founder Company: The Conrad Group, Inc. Location: Braintree, Mass. Q. The approximate number of year...

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Hello, Karen Dowell here! I have been the publisher of the New England Real Estate Journal's Billboard section for the past 33 years. Cindy ...

Many different types of vacation condos will have their share of legal issues

think of vacations. Often this means a resort or a second home condominium. There are many concerns in buying a vacation condominium. The us...

Biotech firms, Stony Creek Brewery and a U.S. Army training facility all discovering Branford

Companies continue to discover that Branford offers what most businesses seek: a strategic location, a talented workforce and a low cost of ...

Current trends in professional liability insurance for real estate professionals

When we last reported on the market for errors and omissions and professional liability insurance for real estate agents, appraisers, attorn...

Increased multi-family market values surpass the recent hike in capital gains tax

The New England multi-family market experienced both an increase in market value and Federal taxes in 2013. Between 2012 and 2013, the combi...

Summer is here, and commercial activity has notched up - due in part to tenants going "short"

Summer is here. It has been a cool, wet spring but commercial activity has notched up. Some of this, regarding leasing, is due to the trend ...

The mid-year 2014 Eastern Mass. luxury home market continues to build on strength

While it is perhaps inevitable that the local and national media paint the Eastern Massachusetts residential real estate market with a broad...

The outlook for remainder of 2014 and 2015 Boston market appears to be very promising

Of the 350+ million people in the U.S., of the hundreds of thousands of food service facilities across the country, why is it that so many s...

R.I. industrial mid-year review: Looking ahead, we anticipate demand to remain steady, supply low

The Rhode Island industrial market in the first half of 2014 was robust compared to the second half of 2013. In December of 2013 we saw a gr...