Spotlights

Simply put, both tenant and lessor would benefit from being represented by a restaurant real estate broker

Every business, once a location is secured, has to prepare for dealing with a landlord, a build-out, personnel, and then the customers. At t...

The trend is slow, positive growth with improvements across many market segments

As I said in an early 2012 article, "the trend is slow, positive growth, which is not bad. 2012 looks to be following that model, with slow,...

Greater Springfield's commercial and industrial market place begin to improve Q1 and Q2 2012

Greater Springfield's commercial and industrial market place appears to have begun to experience improvement in the first and second quarter...

Working together in the city of Quincy to attract the biotech and life sciences industry seminar

Massachusetts is a world leader in the biotechnology industry providing home to over 500 BioPharma Companies, which employ over 48,000 indiv...

People will start playing more golf and demand for tee times will increase as economy recovers

In the late 1990s, golf companies and local developers were buying land to build courses and aggressively bidding up prices for existing gol...

Senior housing and health care market transactions increased by 50% in 2011

There is a bull market underway regarding the senior housing/health care acquisition market, one that is expected to continue. The following...

Hotel Equity & Lender Perspective (HELP) conference produces deals for hotel investors

The Hotel Equity & Lender Perspective event held at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, May 2-3 produced several deals for investors anxious...

The rising economic tide in the Bay State lifts diverse industrial market

Add to the list of great attributes of the Bay State the following: Massachusetts now boasts an economic growth rate that is double the nati...

Insurance marketplace in 2012 The crystal ball says....hard market or soft??

As we gaze forward in an attempt to discern what type of marketplace 2012 will bring as it pertains to insurance costs we must first reflect...

Boston's mixed bag - The commercial real estate market report for the first quarter 2012

Despite varying market indicators, the commercial real estate market in the greater Boston area, continues to look up. Greater Boston is amo...