Search behavior offers valuable insight into how different tenants begin the leasing process. By examining Google search activity during April, this analysis highlights clear differences in how interest in small versus large industrial space appears online revealing patterns that reflect decision speed, discovery methods, and underlying demand dynamics in today’s industrial real estate market.
A look at how suburban lab and R&D space fits within Greater Boston’s life sciences ecosystem, drawing on CBRE research to highlight why locations beyond the urban core continue to play an active role.
Why Does it Matter? The Federal Reserve’s latest messaging suggests interest rates are not coming down anytime soon. For commercial real estate, that removes one of the key assumptions many investors have been underwriting around: near-term rate relief. In a recent Bloomberg interview, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said rates may need […]
More density, new zoning, and fresh investment in affordable and social housing top his priorities. By Beth TreffeisenSource: Boston.com When newly elected Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson bought his first home in Winter Hill 21 years ago, he was terrified he was making a terrible mistake. He and his wife paid $425,000 for a modest starter […]
By Greg Ryan – Senior Reporter, Boston Business Journal For decades, scientists have chased the limitless zero-carbon energy promised by fusion. Now, Devens-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to build the world’s first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant in Virginia. The announcement on Tuesday marks a milestone not just for the MIT spinoff, but the global […]
Gary Higgins Massachusetts’ tech sector shed more than 8,200 jobs last year, marking the second-worst decline nationwide, according to CompTIA’s State of the Tech Workforce 2025 report released Tuesday. The state’s tech workforce shrank 2.6%, falling from 319,416 jobs in 2023 to 311,165 in 2024. Only California reported a greater loss, with more than 51,000 […]
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 Grant Welker – Projects Reporter, Boston Business Journal Developer and Sal’s Pizza founder Sal Lupoli is launching a major mixed-use project in Littleton, transforming a former IBM office campus into King Street Common — a 50-acre development with more than 1,000 housing units, 115,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, and a 150-room hotel. The […]
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, inland and coastal waterways have been leveraged by UltraTech Cement Limited, the cement flagship company of Aditya Birla Group (ABG), to transport phosphogypsum consignment. The consignment of 57,000 metric tons (MT) of phosphogypsum was transported in a bulk cargo carrier from Paradeep port in Odisha and reached the jetty […]
Photo by: The Boston Globe With vacancy rates as high as 8.0% for industrial properties in the Boston commercial real estate market, many have been searching for a way to keep their businesses out of the red. One of the new innovations as of late is the re-purposing of industrial building’s roofs for solar panel […]
