Blackstone reported accelerating deal activity, driven in part by strong demand for data center assets and improving capital markets conditions. The update highlights growing investor interest in digital infrastructure and signals increasing transaction momentum as commercial real estate enters 2026.
CBRE’s 2026 U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook forecasts increased investment activity and continued recovery in leasing across major property types, led by prime office, industrial, multifamily, and data center assets. The report highlights a continued flight to quality, selective supply constraints, and income-driven returns as key themes shaping commercial real estate performance in 2026.
According to new JLL research, Boston recorded its highest quarterly office leasing volume in four years in Q4 2025, driven by tenant renewals and selective relocations into high-quality space. The report points to improving momentum, even as vacancy and availability remain elevated in lower-tier assets.
One of Greater Boston’s largest life sciences landlords is revising plans for a key Fenway asset, opting to pursue office leasing instead of additional lab conversion. The shift highlights how evolving demand dynamics are influencing development and repositioning decisions across the region.
Source: power-technology.com By Lucia Maffei Fusion energy’s promise of clean, limitless energy is becoming even more critical in the era of AI, which requires massive computational power. Google and a Massachusetts-based company are working together to bring secure fusion power to market. Devens-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, said Monday it deepened an ongoing relationship with AI giant […]
By Randyl Drummer, Ryan Ori, Katie Burke As far as commercial real estate services firms are concerned, dealmaking is back. After years of trying to predict when the industry would improve, the five biggest of those companies — CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers and Newmark — raised their financial outlooks for 2025 after posting […]
By Eli Chavez – Inno Reporter, Boston Business Journal Gov. Maura Healey announced the launch of a new $400 million initiative to grow the research and innovation economy in Massachusetts and create thousands of new jobs as federal research funding is being cut under President Donald Trump. In support of the initiative, Healey is also […]
By Don Seiffert – Managing Editor, Boston Business Journal Keurig Dr Pepper, a coffee and beverage giant based in Burlington, says it will pay $18 billion in cash to acquire JDE Peet’s, the parent company of Peet’s Coffee and several others brands of coffee and tea. KDP (Nasdaq: KDP), the company formed in 2018 from […]
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 […]
By Lucia Maffei – Technology Reporter, Boston Business Journal Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, an MIT spinoff seeking to commercialize fusion energy, said on Wednesday it closed more than $1.8 billion in funding. The Series B round, possibly one of the largest single rounds of financing raised by a Bay State company this year, was […]
