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Cambridge, Mass., Commercial Real Estate Market Improves.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002

By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 18--The vacancy rate in the Cambridge commercial real estate market dropped dramatically this year, from 16.4 percent to 12.4 percent, according to year-end figures compiled by brokers Richards Barry Joyce & Partners.

That considerably welcome bit of good news came yesterday amid a generally dismal real estate picture for Greater Boston, as brokers begin to release their numbers summing up 2002.

Falling rents -- from a high of about $70 per square foot in 1999 to about $25 now -- drew firms that wanted to locate in Cambridge but couldn't afford to, Richards Barry director of research Katie Kelly said. Most of the space absorbed was sublease space....

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