Berkadia Adds Experienced Multifamily Sales Team in Boston
Why this matters
Multifamily has been the most actively underwritten sector through the rate cycle, with cap rate compression resuming in Sun Belt and gateway markets as 2024-2025 deliveries roll off and refinance demand on 2021-vintage bridge loans clears. Transaction velocity is up modestly, concentrated in stabilized Class A and grocery-adjacent garden assets. Boston life sciences absorption has moderated from its 2021-2022 pace, and the market is working through a meaningful Cambridge sublease overhang. Multifamily and trophy office remain durable. Allocators continue to favor residential for its income durability and its insulation from secular demand questions that still hang over commercial sectors.
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On the RET wire
- The 50th Boston story tracked on the wire in August 2026. All Boston coverage →
- Disclosed multifamily deal value tracked in August 2026: $11.7B across 136 reported transactions. All Multifamily coverage →
- 34 stories mentioning Berkadia on the wire in the past 90 days. Berkadia coverage →
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Berkadia has added senior managing Directors Kevin Gleason and Brendan Shields and director Maggie McFarland to its investment sales platform in Boston. Gleason, Shields and McFarland specialize in multifamily investm…
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