Spotlights

Increased demand for Boston office space will continue into 2008, causing little need to worry

The downtown Boston office market achieved stratospheric results in 2007. The year finished with direct vacancy at 5.4%, one million s/f of ...

2008 commercial real estate investment market: Challenges, changes and opportunities

During the second half of 2006 and first half of 2007, both the pace and size of real estate deals rapidly increased. Many transactions loo...

In our business of designing we need to look forward and prepare for the future

As we enter the New Year everyone is trying to anticipate where the economy is headed. Is there going to be a recession? What is going to ha...

R.E. economics are expected to be strong and to serve as an offset to slowing in economic growth

The opening words for Massachusetts in this fall's 2007-2011 Economic Outlook are: "Economic growth is projected to slow in 2008, and then ...

Qualify your investment (second home) property as an IRC Section 1031 exchange

We are consulted daily about how to make a vacation property qualify as an Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 Exchange. This is a trou...

Maine commercial real estate market is well balanced to weather the brewing storm

It would serve the U.S. commercial real estate market well, if not the national economy, if the old political adage "As Maine goes, so goes ...

2008 looks bright for users, developers & investors in the Mass Pike and I-495 industrial market

Industrial properties along the Mass Pike & I-495 corridor are posting strong numbers for both sales and lease transactions. Locally, the Ma...

2008 - hotel investment forecast stability returns to the markets

Good deals that make fundamental sense are getting done and will continue to be completed in 2008. Hotel transactions based on low equity, o...

While new credit may be difficult to find, existing loans are being offered at reasonable discounts

While this article is supposed to be about the outlook for the 2008 real estate industry, the savvy reader will be struck by how much space ...

2007 design-build market activity met expectations; planning and proposals active in Q1 2008

2007 market activity for design/build, build-to-suit projects met expectations based upon predictions early last year in this annual forecas...