Quincy and South Shore Massachusetts Commercial Real Estate Blog

CoStar Market Insights: Boston Apartment Construction Cresting in ’18
Unless you have been living in a cave the past few years, it is impossible not to notice the tremendous amount of apartment supply hitting Boston. Due to better than average fundamentals, Boston was one of the first metro areas out of the post-recession supply gate in...

Boston’s Historic Fairmont Copley Plaza Trades in $170 Million Deal
The owner of Faneuil Hall Marketplace and the South Station added another iconic Boston asset to its holdings following news New York City-based Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. acquired the Fairmont Copley Plaza from RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE: RLJ) for $170 million, or...

Harvard Management Co. Spinning Out Real Estate Investment to Bain Capital
Bain Capital, a Boston-based multi-asset alternative investment firms, has formed Bain Capital Real Estate that will be comprised of the professionals currently managing Harvard Management Co.'s (HMC) real estate investments. Harvard Management, which manages...

DDR To Spin Off $3 Billion of Properties into New REIT
Silver Spring Square in Harrisburg, PA, is the largest of the properties DDR is spinning off.DDR Corp. (NYSE: DDR), a Cleveland-based shopping center REIT, plans to spin off a portfolio of 50 assets, including all of its Puerto Rico portfolio, into a separate...

DDR To Spin Off $3 Billion of Properties into a New REIT
Silver Spring Square in Harrisburg, PA, is the largest of the properties DDR is spinning off.DDR Corp. (NYSE: DDR), a Cleveland-based shopping center REIT, plans to spin off a portfolio of 50 assets, including all of its Puerto Rico portfolio, into a separate...

Intercontinental Pays +$1,000 PSF for Fully Leased Office/Retail Bldg. in Harvard Square
Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. added to its local portfolio with the purchase of a fully leased office and retail building in Cambridge, MA in a deal that eclipsed the $1,000 per square foot mark. The Boston investment advisor with roughly $6 billion in assets...

Calypso St. Barth to Liquidate All Stores Nationwide
Luxury women's lifestyle brand Calypso St. Barth is liquidating and closing all of its stores following its bankruptcy filing late last month. Founded on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy in 1992, the luxury lifestyle brand operated 26 boutiques in New York,...

Calypso St. Barth To Liquidate All Stores Nationwide
Luxury women's lifestyle brand Calypso St. Barth is liquidating and closing all of its stores following its bankruptcy filing late last month. Founded on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy in 1992, Calypso St. Barth is well known as a luxury lifestyle brand with...

EMS Warehousing Leases 111,656 SF in Taunton’s Myles Standish Industrial Park
EMS Warehousing, a company that specializes in the storage of food grade and alcohol products, signed a deal for nearly a third of the 350,326-square-foot 800 John Quincy Adams Rd. property in Taunton, MA. The Class A industrial building delivered in 1985 within the...

CoStar’s People of Note (Dec. 8) – HFF and Cresa Expand, Cushman Hires Mangum…
The following companies announced personnel moves this week: Cresa, HFF, Pine Tree, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Bridge Investment Group, Walker & Dunlop, Kentwood Real Estate, Grover Corlew, Zeppelin Development and Colliers International.img.pon{display: block;...
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