By Grant Welker Everett Sees Rapid Residential Growth Everett’s residential market continues to expand with the opening of two new apartment complexes: Jade (325 units) in the Commercial Triangle and Artemas (396 units) just north of Santilli Circle near local breweries and businesses. The city of roughly 52,000 has experienced rapid growth due to its proximity […]
By MARTHA BELLISLE Washington state has enacted new rent stabilization laws, becoming one of the first states to set firm limits on rent increases to protect tenants. Signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson, House Bill 1217 caps rent hikes at 7% plus inflation or 10% (whichever is lower) and includes single-family homes and manufactured housing, the latter […]
by Kim O’Brien While we are still firmly in the most prolific apartment building cycle in U.S. history, supply volumes have finally peaked. The first time apartment supply volumes hit a historic peak was back in 2nd quarter 2023, when quarterly completions surpassed 100,000 units for the first time since RealPage Market Analytics began monitoring the market […]
The theater has been vacant on Church Street since 2012. The Cambridge City Council wants to question the owner about its reopening. By Molly Farrar Harvard Square is marred by at least a dozen of vacant storefronts, including, notably, the nearly century-old Harvard Square Theatre on Church Street. It’s been closed since 2012, and, after a failed […]
by Arben Skivjani After starting the quarter below its long-term average, employment ended September on a high note, with an increase of nearly 254,000 jobs. This brings the total number of jobs created in the first nine months of the year to 1.8 million, which is 24% below the level seen during the same period last […]
By Jim Morrison The US Justice Department and attorneys general in eight states are suing a popular AI-enabled property management software system over alleged anti-trust violations. The Justice Department — and the states of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington — accuse RealPage Inc. of violating the Sherman Act and harming “millions […]
By Greg Ryan A Boston-based real estate developer is proposing a 12-story, 227-unit residential building in Alewife, the Cambridge neighborhood that was put under a construction moratorium for more than a year out of fear it would be overrun by life sciences labs. Boylston Properties is hosting community meetings next week to discuss its plans to […]
By Greg Ryan Boston University has agreed to pay $19.8 million to purchase a site on the edge of its campus that has city approval for a 17-story tower with more than 250 residences. The property is next to the planned future home of West Station, a new transit hub featuring commuter-rail service. The transaction means that […]
By Mitchell Parton As retailers push into new cities and brands lean hard into brick-and-mortar as a strategy, it has become incredibly difficult to find space for a new storefront. Financing constraints due to elevated interest rates as well as zoning and infrastructure restrictions in some jurisdictions have limited construction of retail developments, limiting the amount of space on the […]
By Owners Developers & Managers Somerville, MA According to Rafi Properties, owner and operator of Somernova, the 7.4-acre innovation campus and community dedicated to helping people and companies iterate and grow faster, Somerville Media Center (SMC) will expand their footprint at the campus and open a new media center designed to spark creativity and amplify community […]
