Greater Boston’s retail real estate market is entering the second half of 2026 with limited available space, resilient rent growth, and continued interest from retailers looking to expand throughout the region. While economic uncertainty and slower leasing activity have created some challenges, the market’s constrained supply continues to support relatively strong fundamentals. For tenants, property […]
Explore how the Federal Reserve’s June 2026 policy shift and interest rate outlook could impact commercial real estate buyers, tenants, and investors.
Search behavior offers valuable insight into how different tenants begin the leasing process. By examining Google search activity during April, this analysis highlights clear differences in how interest in small versus large industrial space appears online revealing patterns that reflect decision speed, discovery methods, and underlying demand dynamics in today’s industrial real estate market.
Source: Cresa BostonBy: ACCESS Newswire From downtown to suburbs, Cresa’s tenant teams see both opportunities and risks BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / February 5, 2026 / Boston’s premier tenant-focused commercial real estate firm, Cresa, announced today the release of its 2026 Greater Boston Market Insight Reports, which provide a first-hand look at the trends and opportunities in the region’s […]
One of Greater Boston’s largest life sciences landlords is revising plans for a key Fenway asset, opting to pursue office leasing instead of additional lab conversion. The shift highlights how evolving demand dynamics are influencing development and repositioning decisions across the region.
By Eli Chavez – Inno Reporter, Boston Business Journal Gov. Maura Healey announced the launch of a new $400 million initiative to grow the research and innovation economy in Massachusetts and create thousands of new jobs as federal research funding is being cut under President Donald Trump. In support of the initiative, Healey is also […]
By Don Seiffert – Managing Editor, Boston Business Journal Keurig Dr Pepper, a coffee and beverage giant based in Burlington, says it will pay $18 billion in cash to acquire JDE Peet’s, the parent company of Peet’s Coffee and several others brands of coffee and tea. KDP (Nasdaq: KDP), the company formed in 2018 from […]
By Greg Ryan – Senior Reporter, Boston Business Journal For decades, scientists have chased the limitless zero-carbon energy promised by fusion. Now, Devens-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant in Virginia. The announcement on Tuesday marks a milestone not just for the MIT spinoff, but the global […]
By Lucia Maffei – Technology Reporter, Boston Business Journal Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, an MIT spinoff seeking to commercialize fusion energy, said on Wednesday it closed more than $1.8 billion in funding. The Series B round, possibly one of the largest single rounds of financing raised by a Bay State company this year, was […]
By Lucia Maffei Google and Massachusetts-Based CFS Advance Commercial Fusion Energy The promise of fusion energy—clean, limitless power—is gaining urgency as AI technologies demand massive computational energy. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), based in Devens, Massachusetts, announced Monday a deepened partnership with Google, which plans to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion power from the MIT spinoff. Google […]
