John Power

John F. Power is a principal and co-founder of Farley White Interests, a Boston-based commercial real estate firm he launched in 1995 together with Roger "Sam" Altreuter. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Power began his career in commercial brokerage — early roles included Peter Elliot and Company — before becoming a principal at Whittier Partners, a prominent Boston brokerage that was later absorbed into CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). That brokerage grounding shaped his hands-on, asset-level approach to ownership.

At Farley White, Power's focus is on asset management and financing, and his broader professional practice spans investment, leasing, and real estate tax abatement. He carries the CRE® (Counselor of Real Estate) designation and is affiliated with the organization's New England chapter, where his listed areas of expertise include acquisitions, dispositions, landlord representation, lease negotiation, and tax consulting across central business district office, medical office, and suburban office property types.

Over roughly three decades, Power and Altreuter have built Farley White into an owner-operator of more than 4 million square feet of commercial buildings serving over 250 tenants, with a staff of 40-plus. The portfolio ranges from converted nineteenth-century mill space to modern office and industrial buildings, with management offices in Boston, Lowell, and Billerica (MA), Bedford (NH), and Tampa (FL). Around 2015, Power led a deliberate geographic diversification away from New England into Florida's Gulf Coast — a stretch from Tampa toward Naples — attracted by the region's corporate base, growth trajectory, and high-caliber building inventory.

• Buys quality, then improves it: The firm rejects treating buildings as commodities, instead evaluating each asset's unique strengths — its stated belief is that "quality matters and that, ultimately, higher quality means higher occupancies, lower costs and the upward migration of the properties in competitive markets."
• Customer-service-driven value creation: Power emphasizes tenant relationships as a core investment lever — "Near term our goal will be to work to create an environment where the customer service is as high as it can be."
• Two-market strategy: Deep roots in Boston/New England office, industrial, and mill-conversion assets, paired with a growing Tampa/Florida office platform chosen for corporate demand and building quality.
• Asset types: Office (CBD, medical, suburban), industrial, and land; comfortable with adaptive-reuse of historic mill properties.
• Long-term hold, hands-on management: In-house property management and financing rather than passive or short-flip strategies.