With credit as scarce as flecks of gold in a prospector's pan, 2008 was a lean year for mega deals. Commercial real estate investment sales shrank by up to 70% in 2008 compared with the $524 billion in deals completed...
Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' bustling city in the Arabian Desert where scores of high-rises are springing up, is succumbing to the global recession that has struck the U.S. and other economies around the world...
In fresh evidence that New York’s office market is being buffeted by the widening credit crisis and recession, sublease space has flooded the Manhattan market, driving the vacancy rate up sharply in the fourth quarter...
More than 230 medical device manufacturers in Massachusetts generate a payroll exceeding $1 billion. The essential products include instruments used in heart or cataract surgery, needles, metal parts used in...
As the U.S. economy confronts one of its biggest downturns in the past 50 years, with stocks sinking and banks faltering, a new generation of company leaders among the powerful family dynasties of commercial real...
From the shadow of Boston's celebrated biotech industry, a lesser known sibling is emerging — the powerful medical device industry, which generates annual shipments from Massachusetts of at least $5.5 billion, up from...
The world’s tallest building, the $20 billion Burj Dubai, is taking shape in the desert of Dubai amid a rising collection of structures that form an engineer’s dream. Developers and technology leaders from around the...
Two storms are converging on the U.S. apartment industry amid the deepening credit crisis. While developers are forced to scrap projects because financing has dried up, many owners fear that the weak economic climate...
