Lumber prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than two years, bringing two-by-fours back to what they cost before the pandemic building boom and pointing to a sharp slowdown in construction. Lumber futures ended Tuesday at $429.30 per thousand board feet, down about one-third from a year ago and more than 70% from […]
Some states and counties were already winning the migration battle before the Covid-19 took the world by storm. Like with many other trends, the pandemic sent several migration patterns into overdrive — shifting thousands of people and billions of dollars into fast-growing counties and leaving other areas scrambling to recapture their losses. Massachusetts was a net loser […]
Federal Reserve officials ramped up their battle against the fastest inflation in 40 years on Wednesday, ushering in a third straight supersize rate increase while projecting a more aggressive path ahead for monetary policy, one that would lift interest rates higher and keep them elevated longer. Central bankers raised their policy interest rate by three-quarters of […]
Regency Center Corporation’s (Nasdaq: REG) overhaul of a trio of century-old buildings located in Cambridge, Massachusetts into modern mixed-use space—while carefully preserving the historic flair of their surroundings—reflects the versatility and perseverance of a REIT best known for its grocery-anchored shopping centers. The Jacksonville, Florida-based REIT’s restoration of the Abbot Building complex, a collection of three […]
Eastern Bank has provided a $14-million loan to the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston for its landmark purchase of the Western Avenue Studios & Lofts in Lowell, MA. The WASL complex includes 240,000 square feet of space, 250 work-only artist studios, 50 live/work studios, and a brewery, café and gallery. The Arts & Business Council of […]
Neighborhood and strip malls saw the highest rent growth in the second quarter, according to JLL’s latest report. Despite inflation headwinds that have presented challenges for shoppers, decreasing spending power and consumer confidence, JLL’s Q2 2022 Retail Outlook finds that retail fundamentals are solid, with net absorption remaining positive for six straight quarters, leasing hitting its highest number […]
Somerville’s planning board is meeting next month to consider the next step in developer US2’s nine-story life sciences building in Union Square. US2 has proposed a 280,000-square-foot mixed-use development with ground-level retail at 50 Webster Ave. The project would kick off the second phase of the USQ development, one of the most important components in […]
Me: Coffee next week? Friend: Sure! How about Wednesday? Friend: Hello? Friend: Are you free? Me: So sorry! I totally missed these. They got buried by texts from the pediatrician, the electrician and the dog groomer. No, those three people didn’t walk into a bar. Instead, they were congregating in my Messages app—along with texts about appointments, 20%-off sales, […]
In May 2022, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee raised its Federal Funds rate by 50 basis points. In June, the Fed again raised the Federal Funds rate by another 75 basis points. And in mid-July, the Federal Reserve raised rates another 75 basis points. Analysts anticipate that the Fed will continue to raise […]
The life sciences sector continued to grow in the Bay State last year, adding another 12,000-plus workers and nearly 16 million square feet in real estate between 2020 and 2021. That’s according to a new report from the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, the trade group better known as MassBio. UPGRADE TO NATIONWIDE ACCESS Get Industry Insights […]
