Catherine Carlock

In recent weeks, two fund-raisers for state Senator Nick Collins, from South Boston, pulled in roughly $25,000 from the real estate and hospitality industries.

The cell production company was set to move into new building by year’s end, but will instead put it up for sublease.

The measure is intended to increase commercial real estate tax rates and prevent a spike in residential taxes.

Their plan would hike tax rates on commercial property for three years in a bid to balance the budget without a sharp tax increase on residential taxpayers.

Long-simmering tensions over the mayor’s contentious plan to hike commercial property tax rates broke into the open over the weekend.

The share of people coming back to the office is the highest it has been in four years, though it’s still nowhere near 2019 levels.

The move comes amid major transition in Boston’s approach to planning and building, as well as a broad development slowdown.

The mayor says falling commercial values could force the city to hike residential property taxes, or make painful cuts

It’s another example of declining values for office buildings as pandemic-era shift towards working from home solidifies, a change that has pushed vacancy rates in downtown office towers to their highest level in decades.

The region’s supply of life science real estate exploded just as the once-booming industry hit a slow patch. Now what?

The Boston Planning and Development Agency approved 2.4 million square feet of lab space at its March meeting.

While abatement requests were down citywide, they were up in the core of downtown, where office towers help power the city’s tax base, and thus its $4.28 billion operating budget.

The declining value of Boston’s office buildings could mean the city will face a revenue shortfall of between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion over the next five years.

Boston-based firms that build biomanufacturing space see big opportunity in Raleigh-Durham — posing a threat that a key pillar of our region’s economy could grow faster elsewhere.

The 39,000 square foot relocation comes amid the highest vacancy rate in decades.

Incentives that could help a project meet certain financial requirements would be a welcome change, many developers said.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency is launching a plan to simplify zoning in hopes of easing the path to new housing construction.

The real estate investment trust in 2020 bought a self-storage facility and shipping warehouse in South Boston for $168.5 million with plans to develop a life-science campus. The firm this month sold the property again for just $87 million.

With city approval, 104,000 square feet of office space may be transformed into 170 apartments, helped along by a short-term tax break program aimed at easing the area’s housing crisis.

A Boston-based developer won approval for 850-unit apartment complex at the mouth of the Saugus River, despite protests from dozens who say the project does too little to create housing Lynn residents can afford.