NEW YORK CITY—Office-using employment here increased by 2.9% during the year, led by professional services adding 27,000 jobs.

BOSTON—The project, totaling 556,850 square feet of lab, classroom and office space, will cost $1 billion to develop.

BOSTON—Initially, the project will begin in Dorchester, West Roxbury and the Dudley Square neighborhood of Roxbury in 2016.

YONKERS, NY—The two properties were the first new multifamily properties built in what has been an ongoing revitalization of the Yonkers waterfront.

NEW YORK CITY—NGKF calculates that office properties in Manhattan are trading 23.7% above the previous peak of $849 per square foot in early 2008.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Since the inclusionary housing policy was put in place in 1998, more than 890 affordable units have been or are now being created without the need for capital subsidy funds from the City of Cambridge.

NEW YORK CITY—New ground-up school construction projects accounted for approximately $1.3 billion, or 45%, of all school project starts in 2015.

BOSTON—The deal increases Union Investment's real estate portfolio in Boston. The owner of the Godfrey Hotel Boston purchased the Converse headquarters building in Boston from Related Beal earlier this month for $150 million.