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Conversions of Office Buildings to Apartments, Labs and Hotels Have Captured Attention, But Activity Amounts to Just 2% of Overall Office Market

BOSTON–Conversions of outdated office buildings to other uses such as multifamily complexes, life sciences labs and hotels have garnered widespread attention as the office market adapts to hybrid work. Still, conversion projects in the works represent only a small fraction of the overall market, according to a new report from CBRE. CBRE’s analysis found 218 […]

As Boston Apartment Rents Rise, A Renewed Push for Rent Control

Rent control advocates in Boston are once again pushing for new rent control laws. Of course they are. Apartment rents rose 17 percent in Boston over the last year, on average, including concessions. There’s no relief in the short term either. Market observers predict rents are likely to keep rising sharply through the rest of the […]

Nauset Breaks Ground on Alewife Mixed-Use Apartment Community

Cambridge, MA – Construction is underway for 605 Concord, a mixed-use transit-oriented development that will deliver 49 apartment units above 2,500 square feet of street-level retail space to the Fresh Pond neighborhood. The construction manager is Needham, MA-based Nauset Construction, and the developer is Acorn Holdings LLC. The development is conveniently located near public outdoor […]

Why Multifamily Investments Are a Good Option When Inflation Runs Wild

In an inflationary environment, many investors flounder as pulling the trigger on investments of any kind can feel like higher stakes. The questions are endless. With rising interest rates, falling returns and concerns about recession, where are our dollars best placed to serve our long-term financial goals? Will I need to keep this cash more liquid in […]

Rising Interest Rates Threaten to Expose Office Buildings’ Inflated Values

Cheap debt fueled a decadelong boom in U.S. office values, offsetting the impact of years of rent increases that didn’t keep pace with inflation. Now that the long period of easy credit is over, office-building owners are bracing to see how much less their properties are actually worth. The prices of some aging office towers […]

Ranked: 30 housing markets where values are cooling the fastest — or even declining

Some were booming before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Others shot up in popularity arguably because of the pandemic. A few have been slow-but-steady-growth markets for some time. The national housing market slowdown has been one of the headlining stories of 2022, after a spike in mortgage rates in the spring turned the heat off what […]

Apartment investors apply more scrutiny to deals in wake of market slowdown

Demand for apartments plummeted in the national apartment market in the third quarter, coming off what had been several quarters of strong run-up in demand and rent growth for the national multifamily market. In fact, apartment demand turned negative last quarter, the first Q3 in at least 30 years that such a phenomenon occurred, according […]

Database: Who is moving to — and from — Massachusetts?

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 […]

Regency Centers transforms iconic Harvard Square buildings into The Abbot, a vibrant mixed-use project

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 […]

A Once-Hot Housing Market Heads for a Chill

While we wait to see if — or rather when — the economy will fall into recession, we can all agree that the housing market on its own is heading for a deep freeze. And both can largely be blamed on the actions of the Federal Reserve. The Fed is widely expected to boost the […]

Conversions of Office Buildings to Apartments, Labs and Hotels Have Captured Attention, But Activity Amounts to Just 2% of Overall Office Market

As Boston Apartment Rents Rise, A Renewed Push for Rent Control

Nauset Breaks Ground on Alewife Mixed-Use Apartment Community

Why Multifamily Investments Are a Good Option When Inflation Runs Wild

Rising Interest Rates Threaten to Expose Office Buildings’ Inflated Values

Ranked: 30 housing markets where values are cooling the fastest — or even declining

Apartment investors apply more scrutiny to deals in wake of market slowdown

Database: Who is moving to — and from — Massachusetts?

Regency Centers transforms iconic Harvard Square buildings into The Abbot, a vibrant mixed-use project

A Once-Hot Housing Market Heads for a Chill

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