After 75 years as a Route 128 electronics landmark, the former You-Do-It Electronics building in Needham is entering a new era. Onyx Partners plans to transform the property into its headquarters alongside new retail space, while preserving a piece of the building’s iconic history.
After losing its longtime university anchor, New Bedford’s historic Star Store is preparing for a new chapter. The 125,000-square-foot downtown landmark is being reimagined as a creative hub for artists, makers, organizations and small businesses, with more than 100 prospective tenants already expressing interest.
Explore ABG Realty’s 2026 Midyear Review, featuring notable transactions from the first half of the year, key trends shaping Greater Boston’s commercial real estate market, and the latest insights across the office, retail, industrial, and multifamily sectors.
Greater Boston’s retail real estate market is entering the second half of 2026 with limited available space, resilient rent growth, and continued interest from retailers looking to expand throughout the region. While economic uncertainty and slower leasing activity have created some challenges, the market’s constrained supply continues to support relatively strong fundamentals. For tenants, property […]
Explore how the Federal Reserve’s June 2026 policy shift and interest rate outlook could impact commercial real estate buyers, tenants, and investors.
In early April 2026, Bloomberg reported that U.S. service‑sector growth slowed materially even as input prices surged, as reflected in the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Services Prices Paid Index rising to 70.7—its highest level since October 2022.¹ This combination of decelerating activity and elevated costs is particularly relevant for Boston‑area commercial real estate, where […]
After years of uncertainty, commercial real estate in 2026 is entering a more practical phase. With capital markets stabilizing and deal activity returning, buyers and tenants who are prepared are finding greater clarity and meaningful opportunity.
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 […]
