Josh Schafer – Reporter Wed, May 24, 2023 Wall Street has been waiting for a recession that hasn’t materialized roughly five months into the year. Executives at S&P 500 companies are talking about recessions less on earnings calls for the third straight quarter, per FactSet. S&P Global’s flash US composite PMI showed US economic output reached a 13-month high […]
By Lynn Pollack | February 23, 2023 at 05:53 PM Massachusetts has the lowest vacancy rate of rental homes in a recent study, followed by Maine, Utah, Kentucky, and Montana. According to TexasRealEstateSource.com, utilizing US Census Bureau data, Massachusetts has the tightest vacancy rate for rental properties at 2.8%, followed by Maine at 2.9%, Utah at 3%, Kentucky at […]
By Grant Welker – Projects Reporter, Boston Business Journal Jan 27, 2023 A new grocery store in Norwood takes the pandemic trend toward online ordering a step further. At Addie’s on Route 1, the entire 22,000-square-foot store is devoted to employees filling orders to be brought out to the cars of shoppers who ordered online. The timing may […]
Consumer prices in the United States rose at an annualized rate of 7.7 percent in October, the ninth straight month above seven percent, thanks to still surging demand and stumbling supply. All eyes are fixed on the U.S. Federal Reserve to cool demand by hiking interest rates. But monetary policy has always worked with long and […]
There’s a new top reason why employees wish to return to the office: to focus on work. That was a somewhat surprising result from Gensler’s new 2022 U.S. Workplace Survey released this week, according to Janet Pogue McLaurin, global director workplace research, principal at Gensler. Gensler had conducted 11 surveys since the pandemic “and this […]
Retail rents in markets across the Americas now stand a whopping 15% above pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from Cushman & Wakefield. The firm’s Main Streets Around the World report — Cushman’s first in three years — notes that rents across global prime retail destinations slumped 13% from before the pandemic to hit their lowest […]
You’ve probably seen it on lots of apps and websites: buttons urging you to sign in with your Google or Facebook account. Sometimes it’s to let you share files, photos or emails. Other times it’s to use Google or Facebook as a quick way to log in somewhere new. My rule of thumb is to […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve officials on Monday sloughed off rising volatility in global markets, from slumping U.S. stocks to currency turbulence abroad, and said their priority remained controlling domestic inflation. “There are interactions there,” Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said, noting that financial market volatility can affect investor decisions and the […]
A new ownership group is revising plans for a commercial development on the outskirts of Somerville’s Union Square, dropping a 330-room hotel while retaining a pair of office-lab towers. Capital Hall Partners, Spaulding & Slye Investments and Union Square master developer US2 are partnering on the 980,000-square-foot Gateway Innovation Center project at 200 McGrath Highway, […]
JLL has arranged a $230-million construction loan for the development of 15 McGrath Highway, a speculative life sciences development totaling 262,000 square feet in Somerville, MA. Brett Paulsrud, Henry Schaffer and Mike Shepard of JLL represented DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, Leggat McCall Properties and Deutsche Finance America to secure the non-recourse construction loan with Oxford Properties Group. “Greater Boston continues […]
