Spotlights

Mid-year commercial/industrial/residential market review and forecast for 2013

If you attended the 2013 SIOR/NAIOP Mid-Year Review Program on June 13 at Boston's Westin Waterfront Hotel, you had to leave the event excit...

A groundbreaking summer introduces new opportunities for the city of Presidents

With a variety of new residential and commercial construction projects, improved transportation networks, numerous public sector improvement...

Clearly the market psychology has changed and taking stock of your financing needs makes sense

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference." - R...

More of the same for most markets as supply and demand goes unchanged for the foreseable future

What can we expect for years to come; much of the same with modest improvement. The industry got a shot in the arm in 2012, as rounds rose b...

As the summer rolls along, we expect the hotel market to continue to improve

It's mid-July and the entire east coast is gripped by an intense heat wave. It makes me laugh to hear people in New England complain about t...

Huge tax savings on capital gains by using Section 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange

The lazy, hazy days of summer may be in full swing but there's no "just hanging around" happening here in the §1031 exchange division. Th...

Architecture and engineering industry study reports profits and hiring on the rise

After three years of slow but continuing improvement, architecture and engineering (A&E) firms are healthier now than at any time since the ...

Mid-year 2013 - The market has changed again since the "bubble burst" of September 2008

10-year market cycles are no longer the norm in commercial real estate. The market now changes far more rapidly. From 1960 to 2000, there we...

Taking risks is what the real estate market is about and if you waited last year you are kicking yourself now

The weather has been hot this June and July with several heat waves in Boston. If you were to believe the reports in the paper, the word fro...

Landlords and tenants should carefully consider accelerated rent clauses in Mass. commercial leases

As experienced commercial landlords and their counsel know, Massachusetts courts uphold clauses in leases which give landlords the right to ...