Real Estate

Restaurateurs and other small business owners are wary of a looming "threat" of a 2024 ballot question that could raise the state's minimum wage beyond the $15 hourly rate that took effect in January.

Judges would be instructed to dismiss an eviction claim for failure to pay rent after state aid fully reimburses a landlord, while tenants could only get eviction cases paused if they seek financial assistance "in good faith" under a budget rider the Senate approved Tuesday.

The "red flags are waving" across Massachusetts, with housing, transportation and migration patterns continuing to trend in the wrong direction, according to a new report.

The University of Massachusetts president’s office is relocating from its current offices in Shrewsbury to 50 Washington St. in Westborough.

California-based Realty Income Corp. has begun acquiring Cumberland Farms locations as part of a $1.5-billion sale-leaseback deal with United Kingdom-based EG Group.

Eversource Gas Co. of Massachusetts, a subsidiary of Eversource Energy, has purchased an office building at 4 Technology Drive in Westborough for $23 million.

ReWalk Robotics, a robotics company specializing in building exoskeletons to help people with mobility challenges, has renewed its lease at its Marlborough offices.

Rhode Island-based Magna Hospitality Group has purchased the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Boston-Westborough for $15 million.

A Devens industrial building on seven acres at 53 Jackson Road was sold on May 15 to a Tennessee firm for $11 million, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

Worcester-based packaging manufacturer Rand-Whitney Container opened its new 384,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Boylston on Thursday.