Mertz brokers sale-leaseback in Gloucester County industrial park

A real estate firm’s subsidiary has sold and leased back a 55,000-square-foot industrial building in the Pureland Industrial Complex in Swedesboro, in a deal brokered by NAI Mertz.

New owner plans upgrades at office building after $21.5M sale

RXR Realty has sold a 230,000-square-foot Morristown office building to a Boston-based real estate investment firm, in a $21.5 million deal brokered by HFF.

Cresa announces new management, growth plans in N.J.

Cresa, the largest tenant-only commercial real estate brokerage, has announced a new management team in New Jersey and is on the hunt for new space and new talent.

Veteran Big Pharma engineer joins PS&S

A longtime Hoffman-LaRoche engineering manager in New Jersey has found a new home at PS&S, the Warren-based engineering and architecture firm.

Greenbaum Rowe names co-chair of redevelopment, land use group

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP has added a veteran commercial real estate attorney to help lead its redevelopment and land use practice.

CRE veteran joins HFF debt and equity team

HFF has hired Greg Nalbandian as a senior managing director in its Florham Park office. He joins the firm with more than 23 years of experience in the industry, having most recently served as a senior vice president and managing director with NorthMarq Capital LLC.

Panasonic tower put Newark ‘on the radar of international investors’

Far Eastern investors have accounted for most of the high-profile deals over the last year or so, but it was a Middle Eastern platform, KFH Capital Investment Co., that made the biggest splash in the fourth quarter of 2016.

The first 100 days (of The Briefing): the best of RE-NJ.com so far

Today is the 100th edition of The Briefing! To mark the occasion, here are the five most popular stories on RE-NJ.com since we launched our daily newsletter in mid-September.

Don’t rule out negative interest rates just yet: Here’s why — and what it would mean for you

Even after accounting for the fact that interest rates and expected inflation jumped after Donald Trump’s election, I would guess there is a 20 percent possibility that short-term interest rates become negative in the next two years.

Riordan named executive director of Rutgers real estate center

The Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School has hired a veteran finance executive to help oversee its growth in the years ahead, the program announced Wednesday.