Despite remaining strong on a year-over-year basis, commercial real estate loan prices dropped slightly in February, according to DebtX, a popular marketplace for buying and selling loans.

Drug giant Pfizer Inc. said it plans to tear down 750,000 square feet of unused laboratory space on its Groton campus, a move that follows frantic efforts in recent months to find a new use for the facility.

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical has signed a 10-year lease extension at the Matrix Corporate Center in Danbury.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that certain private nonprofit organizations in Connecticut that do not provide critical services of a governmental nature may be eligible to apply for low interest rate disaster loans. These loans are available as a result of a presidential disaster declaration for public assistance resulting from damages caused by the February blizzard.

Connecticut’s congressional delegation expressed outraged over the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to close mail processing centers in Wallingford and Stamford a year earlier than expected, affecting more than 1,000 workers.

Construction on Infinity Music Hall Hartford kicked off this week, with the project expected to be finished later this year or early 2014. The hall, which will include a bistro for dining, is the second music and dining venue to be opened by founder and owner Dan Hincks and is one of several new revitalization initiatives on Hartford’s Front Street.

A contracting company has leased 4,000 square feet on Washington Avenue in North Haven.

Hartford-based Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has been appointed by OppenheimerFunds Inc. (OFI) to manage its newly-launched Global Real Estate Fund.

Two leases were signed recently at 1023 Main St. in Bridgeport.

Khawaja Sheraz has leased a 1,364-square-foot retail unit at 118 Grand Ave. in New Haven to open a convenience store called “Smoker’s Market 2.”

The Nutmeg State\’s commercial real estate market could start the spring with a bang if a North Haven deal for 386,000 square feet of industrial space comes to fruition.

We\’ve heard a lot over the past year about the shrinking office. Not necessarily so, according to experts in space utilization and planning at Jones Lang LaSalle Project and Development Services (PDS) in Boston.

We\’ve heard a lot over the past year about the shrinking office. Not necessarily so, according to experts in space utilization and planning at Jones Lang LaSalle Project and Development Services (PDS) in Boston.

The latest survey of Connecticut real estate conditions indicates the best results in almost three years of data and market tracking.

New York-based Gaia Real Estate has purchased 163 of 188 total apartment units at the Avon Place residential complex in Avon.

International insurance holding company The Navigators Group Inc. will move its corporate headquarters and additional operations to Stamford from New York by the fourth quarter of 2013.