BOSTON—Industry veteran Richard P. Robinson is bringing along the former New England team of Apartment Realty Advisors as IPA adds the flourishing Boston region to its national platform.

NEW YORK CITY—Land prices in the Hudson Yards zoning district have tripled in the past two and a half years, says Massey Knakal's Robert Knakal, who brokered the sale of one of the parcels that could one day hold the nation's tallest building.

BOSTON—Despite first-quarter FFO that came in below expectations, analysts at RBC Capital Markets continue to give Boston Properties an “outperform” rating, while expressing more reservations about Government Income Properties Trust.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—With assets in Memphis, including Trane's facility at 5200 Tradeport, as well as Nashville and Columbus, OH, the acquisition by locally based Exeter was brokered by a Colliers team representing LNR.

NEW YORK CITY—With Google looking beyond its Manhattan base at 111 Eighth Ave., bigger deals are on the horizon, JLL says. GlobeSt.com reports <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b> on the firm's new tech-sector study.

NEW YORK CITY—Valerie Brown, Cetera Financial's CEO, will oversee RCAP's new retail advice platform, now the second largest independent financial advisor network in the US.

NEW YORK CITY—“Five years into the recovery from the recession, the economy will need to look to gains in consumer spending and business investment more than housing,” says S&amp;P Down Jones' Blitzer.

NEW YORK CITY—The 33,000-square-foot lease brings the 59-story Art Deco landmark in Midtown to 96% occupancy.