128 North Office Market Second Quarter 2015
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128 NORTH OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 MARKETSTATUS Inside... » Absorption was positive for the seventh straight quarter, » Burlington has absorbed 506,000 sf in the past twelve dropping vacancy 3.0 percentage points to 13.4 percent (a months; since the start of 2010, it has had just two quarters 14-year-low) in that time period. with net negative absorption. » Class A properties have absorbed 775,000 sf in the past » The successful repositioning of prominent Route 128 year. North business parks such as The XChange in Bedford and The District in Burlington is representative of a market- » Route 128 North has absorbed 4.8 percent of its inventory wide trend toward amenity-driven demand. over the past year, the most of any suburban submarket. » Wilmington is now 12.0 percent vacant; one year ago, it was 29.5 percent vacant. 128 NORTH OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 ABSORPTION & VACANCY VACANCY BY SUBMARKET VACANCY RATE BY SUBMARKET ABSORPTION & VACANCY Class A & B, Office 128 North, Class A & B, Office Absorption Qtrly Vacancy Rate 2015 Q2 5-Yr Average 700 25.0% 25.0% 600 500 20.0% 20.0% 400 Thousands SF 300 15.0% 15.0% 200 100 10.0% 10.0% - (100) 5.0% 5.0% (200) (300) 0.0% 0.0% 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Q2 2013 Q2 2014 Q2 2015 Q2 Cambridge Back Bay 128 West Financial Seaport 128 North 128 South 495 West 495 North District ASKING RENTS NOTABLE SIGNED LEASES ASKING RENTS Notable Leases Signed Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ 128 North, Class A vs B, Office Recent transactions Class A Class B $30.00 TENANT ADDRESS CITY SQFT $25.00 Per Sq.Ft. Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 201 Burlington Rd Bedford 41,705 $20.00 Everbridge 25 Corporate Dr Burlington 35,439 $15.00 Datawatch Corporation 4 Crosby Dr Bedford 20,360 $10.00 iRobot 6 Crosby Dr Bedford 19,555 $5.00 Mortgage Network, Inc. 99 Conifer Hill Dr Danvers 18,790 $0.00 EasCorp 35 Corporate Dr Burlington 15,772 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Q2 2013 Q2 2014 Q2 2015 Q2 CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS PreparedLARGEST by: Transwestern RBJ CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS Prepared by:CONTIGUOUS Transwestern RBJ BLOCKS LARGEST CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS Route 128 North, 2015 Q2 contiguous availabilities in distinct properties by size Contiguous blocks, one listing per property Class A Class B 120 BUILDING ADDRESS CITY AVAILABLE SF TYPE 100 600 Technology Park Dr, Bldg 10 Billerica 137,550 Direct 80 Number of Blocks 300 Concord Rd, Bldg A Billerica 133,804 Direct 60 805 Middlesex Tpke Billerica 122,342 Direct 40 4 Burlington Woods Burlington 100,883 Direct 20 201 Burlington Rd, North & South Bldg Bedford 92,500 Direct 0 701 Edgewater Dr Wakefield 85,489 Sublet 5 to 10K 10 to 20K 20 to 50K 50 to 100K 100 to 200K 200K + 128N Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ Route 128 North Office Market Indicators by Town DELIVERIES UNDER CONSTR. QUARTER NET LTM* NET DIRECT SUBLEASE TOTAL AVERAGE 4QTR*** SUBMARKET INVENTORY (SF) (SF) ABSORPTION ABSORPTION AVAILABILITY AVAILABILITY VACANCY RATE PSF** CHANGE Bedford 2,629 0 0 3 92 17.5% 0.1% 11.8% $27.64 12.8% Billerica 3,232 0 0 (28) 70 30.6% 2.4% 28.5% $21.00 - Burlington 6,669 0 102 64 506 10.7% 2.6% 8.8% $30.44 0.9% Concord 876 0 36 47 91 33.3% 4.7% 29.1% $23.00 - Wakefield 1,456 0 0 (5) 8 13.6% 7.3% 14.4% $25.67 0.2% Woburn 4,308 0 1028N (6) 20 13.1% 0.9% 8.3% $27.86 3.6% Route 128 North 26,074 0 138 135 1,095 17.9% 2.6% 13.4% $27.07 0.8% ALL AMOUNTS, EXCEPT PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR FIGURES IN THOUSANDS *LTM = Last Twelve Months // **Class A asking rent // ***Twelve months change in asking lease rate Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK 128 NORTH OFFICE MARKET Q2 2015 Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ 495 NORTH OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 MARKETSTATUS Inside... » I-495 North tenants absorbed 91,000 sf in Q2 2015, » In Andover, Minuteman Office Park (1.0 million sf) and dropping vacancy to 22.0 percent as average Class A Phillips’ campus (650,000 SF) are both on the market for asking rents rose to $20.86 per sf. sale. » Large move-ins by UMass Lowell (22,000 sf), Lowell Five » Absorption has totaled 510,000 sf over the past two Savings Bank (21,000 sf) and Jabra (32,000 sf) dropped years, while the rest of I-495 has absorbed 340,000 sf. Lowell’s vacancy rate to 12.1 percent. » Sales of Littleton Corporate Center and Nashoba » Vacancy continues to be skewed by large blocks of Corporate Center continued the recent trend of I-495 empty space, as nearly half of the submarket’s vacant North office parks trading hands; Brickstone Square, Cross space sits in just ten buildings. Point and 495 Business Center have also all sold in the past year. 495 NORTH OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 ABSORPTION & VACANCY VACANCY BY SUBMARKET VACANCY RATE BY SUBMARKET ABSORPTION & VACANCY 495 North, Class A & B, Office Class A & B, Office Absorption Qtrly Vacancy Rate 2015 Q2 5-Yr Average 300 25.0% 25.0% 250 24.0% 200 20.0% 23.0% Thousands SF 150 15.0% 100 22.0% 50 21.0% 10.0% - 20.0% (50) 5.0% 19.0% (100) (150) 18.0% 0.0% 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Q2 2013 Q2 2014 Q2 2015 Q2 Cambridge Back Bay 128 West Financial Seaport 128 North 128 South 495 West 495 North District ASKING RENTS NOTABLE SIGNED LEASES ASKING RENTS Notable Leases Signed Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ 495 North, Class A vs B, Office Recent transactions Class A Class B $25.00 TENANT ADDRESS CITY SQFT Per Sq.Ft. $20.00 Draeger Medical 6 Technology Dr Andover 128,400 Affirmed Networks 35 Nagog Park Acton 45,866 $15.00 MRV 300 Apollo Dr Chelmsford 21,623 $10.00 Lowell Five Savings Bank 55 Technology Dr Lowell 21,443 $5.00 Borrego Solar 55 Technology Dr Lowell 12,723 $0.00 Echo Therapeutics 295 Foster St Littleton 10,132 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Q2 2013 Q2 2014 Q2 2015 Q2 CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS PreparedLARGEST by: Transwestern RBJ CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS Prepared by:CONTIGUOUS Transwestern RBJ BLOCKS LARGEST CONTIGUOUS BLOCKS I-495 North, 2015 Q2 contiguous availabilities in distinct properties by size Contiguous blocks, one listing per property Class A Class B 60 BUILDING ADDRESS CITY AVAILABLE SF TYPE 50 400 Network Center Dr, 400 Tewksbury 283,369 Direct 40 Number of Blocks 900 Chelmsford St, Cross Point Lowell 254,244 Sublet 30 100 Brickstone Sq Andover 197,419 Direct 20 100 Nagog Park Acton 194,800 Direct 10 5 Technology Park Dr, Bldg 3 Westford 160,200 Direct 50 Minuteman Rd Andover 155,100 Direct 0 5 to 10K 10 to 20K 20 to 50K 50 to 100K 100 to 200K 200K + 495N Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ I-495 North Office Market Indicators by Town DELIVERIES UNDER CONSTR. QUARTER NET LTM* NET DIRECT SUBLEASE TOTAL AVERAGE 4QTR*** SUBMARKET INVENTORY (SF) (SF) ABSORPTION ABSORPTION AVAILABILITY AVAILABILITY VACANCY RATE PSF** CHANGE Act/Box/Littleton 2,765 0 0 (4) 55 25.5% 5.0% 19.6% $19.00 - Andover 4,176 0 0 24 (1) 30.0% 1.6% 24.1% $21.05 9.6% Chelmsford 2,367 0 0 (0) 43 28.3% 3.5% 20.1% $21.09 2.5% Lowell 2,098 0 0 72 (2) 31.1% 2.9% 12.1% $21.00 7.0% Westford 2,282 0 32 495N 13 (50) 14.8% 12.1% 17.5% $21.04 20.3% I-495 North 15,601 0 32 91 8 29.1% 4.0% 22.0% $20.86 7.9% ALL AMOUNTS, EXCEPT PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR FIGURES IN THOUSANDS *LTM = Last Twelve Months // **Class A asking rent // ***Twelve months change in asking lease rate Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK 495 NORTH OFFICE MARKET Q2 2015 Prepared by: Transwestern RBJ 128 WEST OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 MARKETSTATUS Inside... » Route 128 West’s positive absorption streak continued » Large pending move-ins for Vistaprint and now Clarks with another 324,000 sf of space leased this quarter, the Americas will likely boost occupancy in Route 128 West most in any quarter since 2011. in the next 12 months, possibly necessitating more speculative construction in the submarket’s core cities » Class A vacancy, now at 6.7 percent, has surpassed its and towns. own record low in each of the past six quarters. » Not only did TripAdvisor drive the most absorption » Lexington absorbed 157,000 sf, the most in eight years. this quarter with the delivery of its new Needham » Class A rents in Newton-Needham-Wellesley have HQ, but the subsequent sale of the new building by increased 30.6 percent in the past two years. Normandy Real Estate Partners to U.S. Realty Advisors ($133.0 million, 281,000 sf, $474.26 per sf) was Route 128 West’s most significant of the past year. 128 WEST OFFICE MARKET SECOND QUARTER 2015 ABSORPTION & VACANCY VACANCY BY SUBMARKET VACANCY RATE BY SUBMARKET ABSORPTION & VACANCY 128 West, Class A & B, Office Class A & B, Office Absorption Qtrly Vacancy Rate 2015 Q2 5-Yr Average 600 25.0% 25.0% 500 20.0% 20.0% 400 Thousands SF 300 15.0% 15.0% 200 100 10.0% 10.0% - 5.0% 5.0% (100) (200) 0.0% 0.0% 2010 Q2 2011 Q2 2012 Q2 2013 Q2 2014 Q2 2015 Q2 Cambridge Back Bay 128 West Financial Seaport 128 North 128 South 495 West 495 North District ASKING RENTS NOTABLE SIGNED LEASES Notable Leases Signed Prepared ASKINGby: Transwestern RENTS RBJ 128 West, Class A vs B, Office Recent transactions Class A Class B $40.00 TENANT ADDRESS CITY SQFT $35.00 Per Sq.Ft.