By Joe Clements CAMBRIDGE—In a mega-$168 million trade that caps off a banner beginning for CBRE/NE’s market-leading multifamily sales team, Heitman Real Estate Capital has changed places with fellow Chicago-based investor Equity Residential as landlord to the Cambridge Park Apartments in this city’s rapidly emerging Alewife district. The 311-unit, first-class asset at 30 CambridgePark Dr. […]
By Jack Rogers The wide bid-ask gap during the first half of 2023—as CRE transaction volumes plunged in the steepest cliff dive since the Great Recession—appears to have narrowed in the third quarter. According to Steve Jacobs, CEO of online auction leader Ten-X, the “flex”—the difference between a seller’s initial asking price and a price […]
By Macie Parker After four years of construction and nearly a decade of planning, the new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center has opened in Kendall Square, part of $750 million deal between MIT and the federal government to redevelop a 14-acre parcel that was once a NASA electronic research center. The new transportation center is […]
By: Gary Kerr The Commercial Triangle district in Everett, Massachusetts, provides a case study in putting a strategic vision into action. Municipal leaders are continually seeking to improve their communities by bringing in private-sector investment, which catalyzes growth and opportunity. But how can a municipality attract the right kind of investment? Welcome to Everett Located just […]
By Richard Berger Operational costs for apartment companies grew by 8.6 percent on average year-over-year in the second quarter of 2023, according to a new report from Marcus & Millichap. Effective rents rose at nearly twice the pace of expenses during the yearlong period ending in June 2022, but those trends inverted over the following […]
By Erik Sherman Green Street last month reported that overall smaller sales in various markets were showing greater strength than larger ones. They’ve lost sales volume, but at a much smaller rate than larger properties. Multifamily was one of the two stars of the pandemic in sales, values, and increasing rents. (Industrial was the other.) But how […]
By Bendix Anderson Apartment developers are finding ways to pay for new construction projects–without using loans from traditional banks. For years, multifamily developers have relied on large, short-term loans from banks to finance the construction of new apartment buildings. But rising interest rates and a string of banks failures—most prominently Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank […]
By: Nick Pipitone In 2018, an office lease in Washington, D.C. was brokered by JLL. The deal was rather unextraordinary. It was the type of deal that may have garnered a few headlines here and there, ending up in weekly transaction columns, but nothing that would draw any special interest. But, four years later, what […]
By Rowan Walrath In the 2010s, life sciences developments made up less than 5% of all office construction nationwide. In the last two years alone, such projects have compromised more than one-in-four new projects, according to a new report from commercial real estate software company CommercialEdge. The report, released last week, warns of a possible oversupply on […]
Borrowing costs have risen more than the benchmark Treasury yields they track, pushing up interest rates for buyers By Ben Eisen and Gina Heeb Mortgage rates pushed to a fresh two-decade high this week, making it tougher for the housing market to emerge from its stark slowdown. The average 30-year fixed mortgage came with an interest rate of […]
