Spotlights

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 ...

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...