Chris LeBarton

Washington, D.C.’s office market had positive net absorption in the second quarter of 2023, marking just the third time more office tenants moved in than moved out since the onset of the pandemic.

Apartment operators across greater Washington, D.C., can breathe a sigh of relief as they head out for summer vacation.

Thousands of new apartments are opening across the greater Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region, and the majority are within the two cities’ most recently developed districts. But despite growing ...

Elements of commercial real estate’s ecosystem get written off for dead from time to time, but sometimes obituaries are written too soon. This seems to be the case for many of greater Washington, ...

The enormity of the challenges facing Boston’s regional office market is difficult to grasp, but a local comparison may help. Following an unprecedented downturn in demand during the first quarter of ...

There are many concerns in Washington, D.C.’s office market these days, but one clear problem is in its middle-tier inventory.

Sales of income-producing real estate in the Washington, D.C., area are dwindling. Given the pace of deceleration, a generation of D.C. dealmakers may experience the biggest slowdown of their careers.

Multifamily developers have added 3,000 luxury apartments in the Washington, D.C., area every quarter for 10 years, banking on the district’s highly educated and well-paid renter class to fill those ...

The amount of Boston's available sublease office space, which reached new heights in 2022, shows no signs of abating in an escalation felt across the metropolitan area as the first quarter of 2023 ...

The 2022 data is baked for Washington, D.C.’s apartment market, and while the metaphorical cake didn’t fall flat, it looked unappetizing next to 2021’s winning recipe. Examining the supply and demand ...

There’s no sugarcoating the slowdown in lease-ups and overall apartment demand in the Washington, D.C., market in 2022. A high-level examination of demand data shows that some factors that weighed on ...

The Washington, D.C., area's apartment market faces challenges in 2023. Assessing the supply-demand balance — and where vacancy comes out in the wash — can help owners, operators and investors ...

Uncertainties lie ahead for the Boston apartment market, but potential answers may be found in the basic performance indicators that drive it. Assessing the supply-demand balance – and where vacancy ...

Assessing the supply-demand balance for the Boston apartment market – and where vacancy comes out in the wash – can help owners, operators, and investors navigate some of the twists and turns ...

Uncertainties lie ahead for the Boston apartment market, but potential answers may be found in the fundamental performance indicators that drive it. Assessing the supply-demand balance – and where ...

(Updated Oct. 10 to add additional analysis in the seventh paragraph.)

The turnaround in Boston’s office market has been impressive through the first three quarters of 2021, and if current trends hold it may turn out to be one of the area’s most pivotal years in ...

Boston’s apartment market is on the precipice of a landmark year by several statistical measures. Regardless of how the final quarter’s data breaks, 2021 will be remembered as a remarkable comeback ...

With its acquisition of the Mazza Gallerie in Friendship Heights, a New York developer closed one book and started another on one of Washington D.C.’s oldest regional malls.

Like most major metropolitan areas nationwide, Washington, D.C. is seeing clear signs of a retail recovery unfolding. Similarly, and perhaps to a more acute degree in the nation's capital, nagging ...