More than 28% of Boston apartment properties with CMBS loans sit at less than 80% occupied, a new Trepp report shows, well above the national average of 4.8%. The vacancy, fueled by a flight to the suburbs and the lack of the city’s typically large student population, has driven rents to drop precipitously in Boston.
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