02/08/2023 | by John Barwick REITs posted their strongest returns since January 2019 and outperformed broader markets, as the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index rose 10.1% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs index gained 10.7%. Broader markets rose as well, as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 gained 7.0% and […]
Yardi Matrix expects distress to increase. By Paul Bergeron | February 21, 2023 at 08:22 AM It’s a bit of same ol’, same ol’ for now in multifamily deal-making two months into 2023 – not a whole lot. “Buyers are cautious, facing higher financing costs and downgraded projections of future rent growth,” writes, Paul Fiorilla, director of research, […]
January 26, 2023 Jarred Schenke, Bisnow Atlanta Amazon has tapped a Harvard-educated designer with experience in drafting municipal land use policies as its new vice president of worldwide corporate real estate and facilities. Amazon named Shannon Loew to the position previously held by John Schoettler, who will remain with the company, the Austin Business Journal reported. Loew’s hiring comes as […]
Buck Wargo | Feb 09, 2023 A new firm is trying to create its own version of a commercial real estate dating service with the launch of a tech-enabled platform that matches 1031 exchange buyers with sales brokers. Miami-based nxtCRE, which secured Series A funding from private equity firm Riverlake Partners in late 2022, announced in late […]
BYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 25, 2023 at 12:46 AM EST The Lego Group announced Tuesday that it will move its North American headquarters from Enfield, Connecticut, to Boston, Massachusetts, by the end of 2026. Skip Kodak, president of the Lego Group in the Americas, said in a release that the move supports the Denmark-based global toymaker’s […]
By Boston Real Estate Times – January 23, 2023 CANTON, MA – BJ’s Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) has moved into its new 190,000 SF corporate headquarters located on Campus Drive in Marlborough, MA. The move maximizes BJ’s corporate space to house team members and meet with vendors and partners while implementing new technology and modern amenities […]
By Matt Grossman Updated Jan. 23, 2023 5:25 pm ET Behind this year’s improved start for markets lies a broad wager that inflation will soon post a once-in-a-generation decline. Market-based gauges of inflation expectations project the annual pace of rising prices will tumble in the months ahead roughly as fast as during the recession that followed […]
By Greg Ryan – Senior Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 23, 2023 Trammell Crow Co. has put forward one of the largest development proposals in Boston in the past year: Three new life sciences buildings, as well as 200 residential units — all of them income-restricted — in Brighton. The Dallas-based CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE) subsidiary and […]
By Catherine Carlock and Emma Platoff Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2023, 1:18 p.m In a bid to bring rent control back to Boston for the first time in three decades, Mayor Michelle Wu is readying a proposal that would limit allowable rent increases to 10 percent per year. The plan, which was floated Tuesday to an […]
he U.S. housing market last year bore the brunt of higher mortgage rates that rode spiraling inflation in the broader economy, but that will change this year, according to Susan Wachter, Wharton professor of real estate and finance. “The Fed is using the housing market as a fulcrum to slow overall activity and get the inflation […]
