In the past five years, prices for the land surrounding light-rail stations have doubled and, in some areas, tripled on a cost per-square-foot basis. One example is the Village Center Station near the Arapahoe light-rail station. About four years ago, the land was valued around $21 a square foot, and now it’s $60 a sf, said Tim Harrington, executive managing director of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. At the other end of the line, property downtown within proximity of light rail has skyrocketed. It now ranges from $300 to $600 a sf.

Plentiful capital, attractive market fundamentals and low interest rates contributed to more than $10.3 billion in Denver commercial real estate transactions during 2015, and 2016 should be another solid year for investments, according to CBRE Inc.

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CBRE Inc. brokers Geoff Baukol, Mike Winn and Tim Richey garnered top honors as 2015 Investment Brokers of the Year at NAIOP Colorado’s annual Awards of Achievement Thursday afternoon. Baukol was recognized as the top individual investment broker, while Winn and Richey took honors for the leading investment team in 2015. The Winn-Richey team completed…

Construction of the newest speculative office building in the southeast suburban market is under way in the heart of Greenwood Village. (Photos courtesy of dovetail solutions)

The World Trade Center Denver has selected a transit-oriented development site at 38th and Blake Street in the revitalized River North Art District neighborhood for a New World Trade Center Denver Global Campus.

One of Colorado’s top general contractors, which recently launched a development services platform, is planning a new $9.5 million headquarters building in Englewood.

DPC Development Co. switched gears with the $41.65 million purchase of a first-class Greenwood Village office building. DPC bought Carrara Place, a 237,681-square-foot building at 6200 S. Syracuse Way. Prudential Real Estate sold the Class A building for $175.23 per sf. “We think it’s one of the best buildings in that Greenwood Village submarket,” said…

An owner who created a great turnaround story for an office/retail building in Aurora sold the property for $6.75 million, or $193 per square foot. Point Belleview, located at 5001 S. Parker Road, is a 34,806-sf, two-story building with excellent visibility along South Parker Road. The developer who completed the project in 2006 lost it…

An Uptown Denver office building that’s been under the same ownership for 18 years sold to a local group that expects to capture smaller tenants priced out of neighboring office submarkets.