Spotlights

GVA Williams brokers 10,000 s/f lease to Demiurge in Cambridge

Ryan Weber, vice president of GVA Williams, represented Demiurge Studios, an independent video game development company, in its recent 10,00...

CresaPartners represents Affymetrix in 80,000 s/f sublease

Dan Sullivan, Adam Subber, and Joe Sciolla of CresaPartners in Boston recently represented Affymetrix in a sublease of 80,000 s/f at 16 Cros...

Newmark Knight Frank brokers 18,000 s/f lease

LeClairRyan, a Richmond, Va.-based full-service law firm, has signed a long-term lease for 18,000 s/f of office space at One International P...

C&W sells $13.6m, 132,158 s/f shopping center to WP Realty

Cushman & Wakefield has sold the $13.6 million Middleborough Crossing, a 132,158 s/f grocery-anchored shopping center located on Rte. 28. Cu...

Synergy buys 25,818 s/f office bldg. at 4 Liberty Square for $8.125m

Synergy recently purchased 4 Liberty Square. The 25,818 s/f class B office building was purchased for $8.125 million or $314 per s/f. Ernest...

Leggat, Labine, King of HFF arrange $90 million acquisition of three hotels

Strategic Capital Partners through its fund, Strategic Partners Value Enhancement Fund, has invested in a three-hotel, 654-room portfolio wi...

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 ...