Off-market relationships. Institutional capital. Precision execution. NS Commercial operates where Boston's most consequential transactions happen — before they ever reach the market.
NS Commercial is Boston's premier off-market commercial real estate firm, founded by Niko Stafford and powered by Block Realty in Brookline. We were built on one belief — that the best deals are never listed.
Born and raised in Boston, Niko spent a decade building one of Greater Boston's most trusted real estate practices — first at a boutique Newton Centre firm in Newton, then expanding across commercial, multifamily, and investment sales throughout MA, RI, NH, and ME. That experience forged a 2,000+ investor network and a deep understanding of how Boston's most sophisticated transactions actually get done.
Today, NS Commercial specializes in off-market disposition, institutional JV partnerships, and creative asset structuring — from cell tower lease monetization to equity partnership deals that close without ever hitting CoStar.
"The best deals aren't found — they're built through relationships and trust built over years."
Direct owner relationships across Boston, Brookline, Newton, and New England. Deals reach our clients before they reach CoStar or LoopNet.
Active relationships with out-of-state institutional buyers and JV equity partners ready to deploy unleveraged capital on the right deal.
Cell tower leases, JV equity, 1031 exchanges, alternative income monetization — we engineer deals that maximize seller proceeds and investor returns.
Full pro forma analysis on every deal — cap rates, rent rolls, market comps, and scenario modeling before a single dollar is committed.
Exclusive off-market disposition of commercial assets. We identify institutional and private buyers before your property ever reaches the open market — protecting confidentiality while maximizing price.
We source off-market opportunities matched precisely to your criteria — cap rate, asset class, geography, deal size. Whether deploying $500K or $50M, we find and structure the right deal.
2-unit to 100+ unit apartment buildings across Greater Boston. Deep relationships with Boston-area MF owners and a network of local and institutional multifamily investors ready to transact.
Strip centers, storefronts, and mixed-use assets throughout the Boston metro. NNN, net lease, and value-add retail from Brookline to Providence — with strong retail corridor knowledge throughout.
Warehouses, flex space, and development-ready land. Specializing in repositioning plays and ground-up development parcels in supply-constrained Greater Boston submarkets.
Cell tower leases, billboard rights, parking monetization, and alternative income streams that reduce acquisition cost and increase asset value — before or during disposition.
In one of Boston's most compelling off-market industrial transactions, NS Commercial represented the seller in a $12.6M disposition of a 75,782 SF warehouse — a property acquired just months earlier for $6.5M.
Founder Niko Stafford identified an opportunity to monetize cell tower leases on the property, recovering a portion of the seller's acquisition cost prior to close — a creative structuring move that directly increased seller proceeds.
Nick Hanna sourced and brought in an out-of-state institutional buyer with unleveraged capital as a JV equity partner, enabling a clean, contingency-free closing at $12.6M.
Result: ~$6.1M in value creation in under 12 months. This transaction has seeded a $30M+ active pipeline with the same institutional group.
NS Commercial is built on 10 years of residential expertise. Niko Stafford continues to close residential deals across Greater Boston while leading the commercial division.
$30M+ in active off-market commercial pipeline — separate from the $12.6M Hampden Street closing. Combined with $4.5M+ in 2026 residential closings, NS Commercial is tracking toward nearly $47M in total transaction activity.
Born and raised in Boston, Niko spent a decade building one of Greater Boston's most trusted real estate practices — starting at a boutique firm in Newton Centre and growing a 2,000+ vetted investor network spanning MA, RI, NH, and ME.
Niko specializes in off-market commercial deal origination, institutional JV structuring, and creative asset monetization. His relationships-first approach has produced results across multifamily, retail, industrial, and development deals throughout Boston and New England.
Nick brings deep institutional capital relationships to every NS Commercial transaction. His ability to identify, structure, and close deals with out-of-state institutional buyers — including unleveraged JV equity partners — is the engine behind the firm's largest closings.
On the $12.6M Hampden Street close, Nick sourced the institutional JV partner and executed a clean, contingency-free closing. He is currently managing a $30M+ pipeline of deals with the same institutional group.
NS Commercial is building its commercial team. If you're a commercial broker or agent ready to plug into a deal-flow-rich environment with institutional capital access and off-market inventory, reach out.
Join the TeamWhether you have an off-market asset to sell, capital to deploy, or a deal that needs creative structuring — we want to hear from you. Deals move fast. So do we.