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Across the border, same straight answers.
Lornell Real Estate is based in Worcester, and we take select commercial assignments across the Connecticut line. I-84 starts at the Mass Pike in Sturbridge and runs to Hartford, so for us Connecticut is the next set of exits.
Lornell Real Estate is a Worcester-based commercial brokerage, and we handle select commercial assignments across the Connecticut line: investment sales, leasing advisory, development consulting, and property management. Hartford is a straight run down the Mass Pike and I-84, and Springfield sits on the Pike. We do not treat Connecticut as a faraway market. You get the same team, the same reporting, and the same blunt read on value.
Why we cross the border
We did not pick Connecticut off a map. Our clients took us there: owners who hold property in both Massachusetts and Connecticut, and investors who started in Central Massachusetts and kept buying south. Boston capital tends to overlook Connecticut's secondary markets the same way it overlooks Central Massachusetts, which is why the numbers can work for buyers willing to make the drive.
Industrial and logistics demand follows the highway network, I-84, I-91, and the Mass Pike, and that network does not stop at the state line. When a client needs us in Connecticut, we go. There is no referral handoff to a stranger and no junior associate learning the market on your dime.
The Hartford to Springfield corridor
I-91 runs north and south through Hartford and Springfield, and I-84 cuts east toward Sturbridge and our home turf. The building stock along these highways is practical: older industrial buildings, distribution space, flex, and the commercial corridors of workforce towns that cash-flow for decades without ever making a brochure. Tenants stay because the labor pool is there and the highway access works.
We read these buildings the way we read them at home: which ones have good bones, which ones carry deferred maintenance that will eat your yield, and what the local approval boards actually care about.
How cross-border work runs
You have one point of contact, and it is us. We drive down, walk the building, meet the tenants, and sit in on the town meetings. We hold our own Connecticut brokerage license, so there is no co-broker you did not choose. Reporting, timelines, and record keeping work the way they do in Worcester County, with monthly reporting on the property we manage and every material decision written down. Distance does not change the process. It puts more miles on the car.
Commercial Corridors
Key Business Districts
Hartford to Springfield (I-91)
Older industrial, distribution, and flex buildings along the north-south spine of central Connecticut
I-84 Corridor
East from Hartford to the Mass Pike at Sturbridge
Regional Access
Transportation
I-84: Begins at the Mass Pike (Exit 78) in Sturbridge and runs southwest to Hartford
I-91: North-south through Hartford and Springfield
I-395: South from the Auburn interchange through Webster into eastern Connecticut
Investment Thesis
Why Connecticut?
The arithmetic that draws investors to Central Massachusetts is commercial property at roughly $80 to $200 per square foot against $300 to $600 or more in Greater Boston, with cap rates around 6 to 9 percent against 4 to 6 percent. The same logic makes Connecticut's secondary markets worth a look: real yield outside the primary-city core, on buildings you can walk and underwrite. We bring the same discipline there, comparable sales and income analysis with no Boston comps on a Hartford County building. If the numbers do not support the price, we will tell you before you spend money finding out.
Common Questions
Connecticut Commercial Real Estate FAQ
Yes. We take select commercial assignments in Connecticut, including investment sales, leasing, development consulting, and property management. We are based in Worcester, MA and hold our own Connecticut brokerage license, so you deal with one point of contact: us.
Our work centers on the Hartford to Springfield corridor and the markets along I-84 and I-91: the industrial, flex, and commercial corridors within practical reach of our Worcester office. If your property or requirement sits in that footprint, talk to us before assuming you need a Hartford or Boston firm.
The same reason they look at Central Massachusetts: yield. Investors chasing the 6 to 9 percent cap rates we see in Central Massachusetts, against 4 to 6 percent in Greater Boston, tend to find similar logic in Connecticut's secondary markets. That means real cash flow on real buildings, outside the primary-city core, without Boston pricing.
Industrial and warehouse, flex, retail centers and storefronts, office, and multifamily: the same commercial range we handle in Massachusetts.
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