Museum Towers sells for $145.7m
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Museum Towers, a six-year-old luxury high-rise apartment complex overlooking the Charles River in East Cambridge, sold this week for what is believed to be a record per-unit price in Greater Boston, and will be converted to condominiums ranging from $350,000 to $750,000.
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The REIT will pay &#36;612 million for the owner of office buildings in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
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1: Citypoint, &pound;520m: Tishman Speyer, the US property company, joined Schroders to buy the 36-storey tower in January at a yield of 5.8 per cent. The building at 1 Ropemaker St is let to Macquarie, Simmons &amp; Simmons, Regus, Whitbread and others.
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Brookfield Properties Corp., which owns 48 commercial sites including the World Financial Center in New York, bought a 19-story office tower in Rosslyn, Virginia, from Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG for $106 million.
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Hong Kong developers sold a London architectural landmark, the Battersea Power Station, on Thursday, ending a 13-year struggle to develop the site.
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The Louvre Museum in Paris bought a  bust by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt on Thursday for a  record-setting $4.8 million, roughly 10 times the expected sale  price, Sotheby's said.
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Blackstone Group LP, the private equity firm that bought Equity Office Properties Trust in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, has sold 53 buildings in Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Seattle for $7.55 billion, said three people with direct knowledge of the transactions.
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Several bids to purchase 30 Winter St., a 12-floor, 87,000-square-foot office building near Downtown Crossing, were received this week, Lisa M. Campoli, executive vice president of the real estate firm Meredith &amp; Grew, said. Meredith &amp; Grew is representing the joint owners, Great Point Investors LLC and the Cresset Group, both of Boston. "There's been a ton of ...
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One of London's newest landmark buildings, nicknamed "The Gherkin", is being valued for sale.
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Retailer Kmart Holdings Corp. KMRT.O  on Monday finalized a deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home  Depot Inc. HD.N for $271 million.
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The M.T.A., in an effort to raise more than $1 billion, wants to sell or lease many of its 14,000 properties.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of âArtemis and the Stag,â below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sothebyâs auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will be on view for six months in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (the central atrium in the new Greek and Roman Galleries).
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The museumâs new home, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2009, will face Central Park and cost about $80 million, according to officials.
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Boston Wharf Co. today is set to sell about half of its remaining portfolio of historic brick buildings in the Fort Point Channel area to Berkeley Investments Inc. for $97 million, Berkeley executives said yesterday.
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Kmart finalizes a revised deal worth $271M, has an option to sell another store to Home Depot. NEW YORK  - Kmart finalized Monday a deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home Depot Inc.
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NEW YORK Ruport Murdoch could make New York history if his reported bid to buy a three-story Manhattan penthouse goes through. The New York Times says the (b) billionaire CEO of News Corporation is offering 44 (m) million dollars for the Fifth Avenue pad.