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It’s the age-old developer’s trade-off. In a market saturated with new apartments, building owners have a decision to make. You can either tolerate higher vacancy rates and hope they don’t last too long. Or, you can offer a month or two of free rent to get renters in...

Cresa expanded its brokerage roster in Boston with the addition of Daniel Collins as a senior vice president. Collins comes to Cresa from Colliers International, where represented a variety of professional tenants including law firms, technology companies and...

Developers included a pair of condo towers totaling 153 units as part of the largescale InkBlot mixed-use development in Boston's South End. Builders in Boston have started to deliver some high-profile condo projects, a property trend mirrored in some other major...

Rendering of the proposed 1,054-key Omni Boston hotel at 400 Summer St.Credit: Elkus Manfredi Architects As the weather begins to heat up in Boston, so too does the fight between the city officials and Airbnb. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh recently outlined a proposal that...

Normandy Real Estate Partners has recapitalized its 191-room Hotel Indigo in suburban Boston with Wellesley Hills, MA-based Mark Development. Normandy Real Estate Partners, of Morristown, NJ, paid a little more than $14.5 million back in 2006 to acquire the 1930s-era...

Pictured: 101 Main St. in Cambridge, MA, a 341,000-square-foot office property occupied by Amazon.In cities across America, weary locals have long complained that strained transportation networks were failing to keep pace with the rush of new development. Then, Amazon...

Boston multifamily investor and developer Acorn Holdings has started construction on a new 93-unit apartment complex near Fresh Pond designed to cater to the underserved segment of young families looking for family-sized rental apartments in Cambridge, MA. Named Park...

Lakewood Center I, a current DivcoWest holding in Austin DivcoWest Real Estate Services, the San Francisco-based real estate investment firm headed by Stuart Shiff, has once again teamed up with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to invest in...

Pictured: Camden North Quarter in Orlando. The 333-unit property sold to Camden Property Trust in February for $80.75 million. Orlando has the highest forecast rent growth in the country, according to CoStar. The high-flying apartment sector, which led all other...

Co-working has fully arrived in Boston. Co-working tenants lease more than 2.6 million square feet across the metro, with 1.5 million square feet signed since 2016. While giants like WeWork have leased more than 700,000 square feet, many other groups are taking large...