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• April 2023 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Twitter listed 200,000 square feet of space up for sublease at its Chelsea offices. The connected buildings at 245 West 17th Street and 249 West 17th Street. Touro University at 3 Times Square adding 66K sf across two more floors bringing, total footprint in the tower to nearly 310,000 square feet. STV leased 65,000 square feet at 350 Fifth Avenue and will occupy the full 10th and part of the 11th floor. Asking rent for the 16-year lease was $69 per square foot. StubHub leased 3 World Trade Center and signed a 44,000-square-foot lease on the 59th floor of ...
  
  
• November 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Tenants leased 9.2 million square feet in the quarter, up 26% from the previous quarter and 28% from the same period last year. Financial services, insurance and real estate tenants were the top-leasing industries during the quarter, accounting for 47% of square footage leased. Year-to-date leasing volume stands at 24.2 million square feet, an approximately 50% climb from last year. Leasing volume this year is on track to outpace last year’s total by 29%. Manhattan’s availability rate dropped to 16.4%, its lowest level since March 2021. The market’s 4.7% decline in availability from 17.2% in the second quarter was ...
  
  
• June 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Tiffany & Co. trims HQ office lease to a 10-year extension for its office at 200 Fifth Avenue from 400,000 square feet to 287,000 square feet, lopping off almost a third of its footprint. Blackstone is considering either expanding at 345 Park Avenue or moving and renting 1.5 million square feet. HSBC grabs 265,000 sf at Tishman Speyer’s Spiral. HSBC is expected to move into Hudson Yards skyscraper by January 2024. Macquarie Group signed a 220,000 SF lease to be the first tenant at 660 Fifth Avenue. Wellington Management is planning 71,000 RSF at 799 Broadway. Empire BlueCross BlueShield ...
  
  
• January 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Core Club signed a 20-year lease to take up to 60,000 square feet at 711 Fifth Avenue. The club is expected to take occupancy late next year, after outgrowing its 32,000-square-foot space at 60 East 55th Street. Touro College is consolidating its scattered Manhattan footprint in the heart of Times Square. The private university system has signed a 32-year lease for 243K SF at 3 Times Square tower. Touro intends to relocate much of the graduate and undergraduate programming at its three Manhattan locations. Bloomberg LP agreed to take an additional 191,000 square feet at 919 Third Avenue. Bloomberg ...
  
  
• June 2019 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings Sold: RFR Realty sold 345 Park Avenue South to Deerfield, a medical fund manager that oversees $8 billion in assets, who secured a five-year $525 million loan for the acquisition and a conversion of the building to a medical lab. The sale price for the 12 story building was not disclosed. Alduwaliya Asset Management is acquiring the 17-story, 142 West 36th Street and 10-story, 234 West 39th Street for $140 million. The buildings span 119,203 square feet and 91,943 square feet respectively, were sold by Tod Waterman and USAA, who paid $118 million for the properties in 2015. RXR’s ...
  
  
• February 2019 New York New Developments
• The top 10 office lease deals totaled 2.65 million square feet, up more than 885,000 RSF more than the previous months top 10 leases. Deutsche Bank is set to take over 1.1 million square feet of office space at 10 Columbus Circle and will leave 60 Wall Street. Millennium Management signed a lease for 300,000 square feet of space at 399 Park Avenue, relocating from 666 Fifth Avenue. Asking rents are between $73 and $90 per square foot. WeWork signed a lease for 236,000 square feet of space across seven floors at 1440 Broadway, where it will have its own ...
  
  
• September 2016 New York New Developments
• Major Developments: SL Green Realty says it has shaken a pesky lawsuit that threatened to stall the construction of its office building near Grand Central Terminal, One Vanderbilt. The REIT has settled a lawsuit filed by the owner of Grand Central, which alleged that the office landlord and the city rendered his 1.2 million square feet of air rights useless when it rezoned the area. The settlement was made possible, in part, by the recent sale of a stake in Grand Central to Michael Dell’s MSD Capital. In 2012, the Witkoff Group announced it would build a new hotel at ...
  
  
• June 2013 New York City New Developments
• NY New Developments The Federal Department of Transportation will give New York $185 million to help build a rail tunnel under the Related Companies’ Hudson Yards project that will allow for high-speed train service between Manhattan and Newark, N.JTwo recent Plaza District office leases have broken new price records, being the most expensive office leases since 2008. Hedge fund Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb and the Brazil-based Banco Itaú will pay just under $200 per square foot for space at 9 West 57th Street and the GM Building.The Lower East Side is getting a new 12-story, 44,000-square-foot, 38-unit residential building at ...
  
  
• October 2009 New York New Developments
• Major Developments Stalled construction projects are not having much of a psychological impact on the city. Despite an increasing number of delayed projects, including 250 West 55th Street, 99 Church Street and Solow's First Avenue project, any psychological effects are likely to be short-lived, because the projects will be completed eventually. Large banks are only about halfway done with their commercial real estate losses. The U.S. commercial real estate losses could reach 10 or 15 percent of loans in this cycle. Banks with retail and office loans face the highest risk.The Plaza hotel is on tough times. The building's lower ...
  
  
• January 2009 New York New Developments
• New Developments Lenders are going into bankruptcy and the sales market is disappearing, causing developers all over New York to face choices about how to ride out this down cycle.Over $400 billion in mortgages on commercial properties, including office towers and shopping malls, are to come due by the end of 2009. Even if these properties are performing well, they could go into foreclosure if mortgage holders are unable to pay off the loans. The commercial real estate market has shifted from property sales toward the purchase and sale of debt, where the loan, rather than the actual real estate, ...