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MassHousing Provides $50M for First Phase of Brockton Public Housing Redevelopment

by Lynn Peisner February 24, 2026

BROCKTON, MASS. — Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) has provided $50 million for the first phase of redevelopment at the Campello Apartments campus in Brockton, approximately 24 miles south of Boston. The total project cost is $115.3 million. The distressed public housing community was built in 1972. In the first of three redevelopment phases, a new seven-story, 144-unit building will be constructed. The overall plan calls for the demolition of one single-story and two high-rise buildings, which currently include 398 public housing units. The demolished buildings will be replaced with …

February 24, 2026

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MassHousing and Partners Close Financing for 43-Unit Affordable Housing Development in Somerville, Massachusetts

by Lynn Peisner February 13, 2026

SOMERVILLE, MASS. — Affordable housing developer Just a Start and the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) have closed on financing for 24 Webster Avenue in Union Square. The project will include 43 units that will be constructed on a site that is currently a vacant commercial lot. The units will be reserved households earning between 30 and 60 percent of area median income. The general contractor is Dellbrook | JKS, the architect is ICON Architecture Inc., and the management agent will be Maloney Properties. New Seasons Development LLC is a …

February 13, 2026

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HVPG Acquires, Will Rehab Two Boston Properties for $52.5M

by Lynn Peisner February 13, 2026

BOSTON — New York City-based affordable housing firm Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) has acquired Boston Bay and Hope Bay, two adjacent affordable housing communities in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. The deal marks HVPG’s first in Massachusetts. The properties, located at 205 Magnolia St. (Boston Bay) and 5 Norwell St. (Hope Bay), consist of 20 buildings across two sites originally constructed between 1890 and 1920. Total project costs related to this preservation project are approximately $52.5 million, funded with a Fannie Mae loan provided by KeyBank. HVPG is planning …

February 13, 2026

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Marcus & Millichap Brokers $3.2M Sale of Boston Property

by Lynn Peisner February 10, 2026

BOSTON — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of an 11-unit property at 11 Schubert St. in Boston. The asset traded between two private parties for the sum of approximately $3.2 million. About half the units were vacant at the time of the sale, allowing the buyer to begin renovations immediately, according to Marcus & Millichap, whose Boston-based team was headed up by Tony Pepdjonovic and Evan Griffith. The asset, constructed circa 1970, sits on a 0.18-acre parcel and includes a mix of one- and two-bedroom units, seven off-street …

February 10, 2026

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Tremont Development Partners Secures $67 Million in Funding for Massachusetts Affordable Housing Redevelopment

by Lynn Peisner January 29, 2026

WORCESTER, MASS. — MassDevelopment, Massachusetts’ development finance agency and land bank, has issued a $38 million tax-exempt bond to Tremont Development Partners to finance the first phase of the redevelopment of the Worcester Housing Authority’s Lakeside Apartments community in Worcester. The site’s existing buildings that were originally built in 1949 will be demolished and replaced with two new buildings containing 116 units. Twenty-nine units will be reserved for households earning up to 60 percent of area median income (AMI) and 87 units will be earmarked for households earning no more …

January 29, 2026

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Walker & Dunlop Arranges $53.6 Million Sale of Mixed-Use Asset in Cambridge, Massachusetts

by Lynn Peisner January 16, 2026

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged the $53.6 million sale of 929 MASS, a mixed-use, two-building property in the Central Square area of Cambridge. Walker & Dunlop represented the unnamed institutional seller in the deal with a team led by Travis D’Amato, Michael Coyne, Brendan Shields, Kevin Gleason and Maggie McFarland. Concurrently, Andrew Gnazzo and Mike Darling secured acquisition financing for buyer John M Corcoran & Co. (JMC), arranging a $37.1 million fixed-rate, interest-only Fannie Mae loan. JMC has partnered with Stars REI, a global, privately held company …

January 16, 2026

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JLL Arranges $23 Million Refinancing for Metro Boston Property

by Lynn Peisner December 23, 2025

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $23 million loan through Manulife/John Hancock Life Insurance Co. to refinance 1008 Mass Ave, a 65-unit luxury community in Cambridge. The borrower was Boston Residential Group. The seven-story building, constructed in 1999, features 65 studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments along with ground-floor retail space currently occupied by Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty. The property is home to 67 covered parking spaces and amenities including 24-hour concierge services, a fitness center, a seventh-floor deck with panoramic city views and laundry facilities on every …

December 23, 2025

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HYM, Cathexis Break Ground on Second Residential Project in Boston’s Suffolk Downs Redevelopment

by Lynn Peisner December 18, 2025

REVERE, MASS. — The HYM Investment Group, along with project partners Cathexis Holdings, the City of Revere, Related Fund Management and Suffolk, have broken ground on Portico, the second residential building at the 161-acre Suffolk Downs, a redevelopment of a former horse racing track. HYM and Cathexis bought the site in 2017 with a plan to redevelop the property into a mixed-use district. The first project, Amaya, was completed in 2024. Portico is slated for a February 2028 completion. Additional partners on the 473-unit project include Prellwitz Chilinski Architects, MEP …

December 18, 2025

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Gilbane Appoints Brian Killinger Head of Asset Management

by Lynn Peisner December 5, 2025

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gilbane Development has hired Brian Killinger as head of asset management, a role that requires oversight and growth of a national portfolio of more than 8,000 multifamily units, 3,550 purpose-built student housing beds as well as other retail and office assets. Prior to joining Providence-based Gilbane, Killinger directed a regional portfolio of 200 multifamily properties consisting of approximately 70,000 apartments in the Eastern United States in his capacity as senior vice president, asset management, at LivCor, a Chicago-based subsidiary of The Blackstone Group. Killinger works out of …

December 5, 2025

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The Davis Cos. Breaks Ground on Industrial Conversion Project in Greater Boston

by Lynn Peisner October 20, 2025

MEDFORD, MASS. — Boston-based developer The Davis Cos. broke ground in August on The Clayborn, an industrial-to-multifamily conversion project at 970 Fellsway in Medford, seven miles northwest of Boston. The company bought the 7.9-acre site, which was home to a self-storage facility, in 2019 for $25 million. According to a LinkedIn post quoting Davis, the project cost is approximately $78 million. The development team includes Plumb House as general contractor, Bohler as civil engineer, WSP as mechanical engineer and H+O as the structural engineer. Cube 3 is the project architect, …

October 20, 2025

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