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Boston Properties Inc.
public company
Founded1970
HeadquartersBoston (HQ), Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Princeton, New Jersey.
Key peopleMortimer Zuckerman, Chairman, Edward H. Linde, President and CEO
IndustryProperty Investment Trust
Productsinvestment trust, Property developer
RevenueUS$1.4 billion (year to 31/12/2005)
Operating incomeUS$304 m
Net incomeUS$438 m
Employees673
SubsidiariesBoston Properties Limited Partnership
Websitebostonproperties.com
Boston Properties, Inc. (NYSE: BXP) is a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its primary focus is "Class A" office space which it acquires, develops, and manages in the major markets of Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. It also owns two hotel properties.

It was founded in 1970 by Mortimer Zuckerman and Edward H. Linde, and became listed in June 1997.

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Boston, Massachusetts

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Washington, D.C.

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State of New York

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Motto(s): Excelsior!

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Capital Albany
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Mortimer Benjamin "Mort" Zuckerman (born 1937, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Jewish American magazine editor, publisher, and real estate billionaire.

He co-founded Boston Properties, Inc. in 1970. He is chairman of the board, and director.
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Aspinwall Classification System (Leo Aspinwall, 1958) classifies and rates products based on five variables:
  1. Replacement rate (How frequently is the product repurchased?)
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Investment trusts are companies that invest in the shares of other companies for the purpose of acting as a collective investment.

Investors' money is pooled together from the sale of a fixed number of shares a trust issues when it launches.
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A real estate developer (American English) or property developer (British English) makes improvements of some kind to real property, thereby increasing its value. In legal form the developer may be an individual, but is more often a partnership, limited liability company or
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Revenue is a business term for the amount of money that a company receives from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers.
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In financial and business accounting, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) is a measure of a firm's profitability that excludes interest and income tax expenses.[1]

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Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. Net income can be distributed among holders of common stock as a dividend or held by the firm as retained earnings.
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A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (pronounced /ɹiːt/) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes.
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Boston, Massachusetts

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Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), The Cradle of Liberty, City on the Hill, Athens of America
Location in Suffolk County in Massachusetts, USA
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Washington, D.C.

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City and County of San Francisco
"The Painted Ladies"

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Nickname: The City, The City by the Bay, San Fran, Frisco,[1] Baghdad by the Bay[2]
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Mortimer Benjamin "Mort" Zuckerman (born 1937, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Jewish American magazine editor, publisher, and real estate billionaire.

He co-founded Boston Properties, Inc. in 1970. He is chairman of the board, and director.
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