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On July 14, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on the building of new hyperscale data centers, pausing all state environmental permits for up to one year. The purpose, according to the governor’s announcement, is to take the time to establish “a nation-leading regulatory…
Another artificial intelligence firm is planting roots in Midtown South. Chalk AI, a data platform that provides companies with infrastructure to deliver data to AI agents, has signed a lease for 26,607 square feet at Castro Properties’ 43 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District, according to landlord broker…
The Durst Organization has announced three leases totaling 11,223 square feet for prebuilt office suites at the company’s 1133 Avenue of the Americas, Commercial Observer has learned. In the largest of these, software company Quantexa signed a new lease for 5,263 square feet at the building. The U.K.-based firm…
Billionaire Lim Kok Thay's Genting is developing a major casino resort project in New York including a new hotel and arena as part of a $5.5 billion investment.
A New York distressed-debt specialist has taken control of the buildable heart of San Francisco’s largest apartment complex, using a construction loan it never got repaid to foreclose on land approved for nearly 1,700 new homes. Yellowstone Real Estate Investments has completed a foreclosure takeover of the…
JERICHO, N.Y. — Grassi, a provider of tax and accounting services, has renewed its 41,000-square-foot office lease in the Long Island community of Jericho. The space is located within 50 Jericho Quadrangle, which is situated at the intersection of Exit 40 of the Long Island Expressway and the Jericho Turnpike. Rob…
Google’s parent company has quadrupled its office footprint in Miami, Bloomberg reported. Alphabet inked a lease for about 45,000 square feet at 1450 Brickell Avenue this spring, where it had been leasing about 10,000 square feet. The tech giant has been stationed at the 34-story building since 2016. Developer…
Adler Partners, an owner and operator in the U.S. industrial space, has secured $343 million to recapitalize select assets in its fourth commercial real estate investment fund after closing its Adler Light Industrial Portfolio II (ALIP II) this month, according to a release. Corebridge Financial provided $203…
NEW YORK CITY AND CHARLOTTE, N.C. — JLL has arranged $617 million in financing for Charlotte, North Carolina-based Grubb Properties, supporting the formation of a new real estate investment trust… The post JLL Arranges $617M in Financing for Grubb Properties appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business .
The Durst Organization and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that Mercor has signed a lease at One World Trade Center for 25,550 square feet on the 77th floor. The term length was not disclosed. With this agreement, One World Trade Center is 97% leased and Mercor joins the growing community of…
The Bascom Group has acquired a 183-unit apartment complex in Orange County, Calif., as the company expands its multifamily holdings this year in the Western U.S. The Irvine, Calif.-based investment firm put down $53.1 million for Castlewood Park Apartments in Buena Park. The deal is equal to about $290,200 per…
A joint venture between Centerbridge Partners and Henderson Group has landed a $208.5 million debt package to recapitalize 40 industrial assets in Pennsylvania and South Florida, Commercial Observer has learned. J.P. Morgan Chase supplied the five-year, floating-rate loan on the sponsorship’s logistics portfolio…
Get your popcorn ready, Los Angeles. One of Hollywood’s most beloved movie theaters is finally coming back. Sony Pictures Entertainment and its Alamo Drafthouse Cinema subsidiary announced Wednesday they struck a long-term lease to restore and reopen the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and the adjacent 14-screen…
Five landlords sue New York over rent freeze process, alleging Mayor Mamdani directed Rent Guidelines Board outcome affecting one million stabilized apartments. The post Small Landlords Challenge Rent Freeze Process in New York Lawsuit appeared first on Propmodo .
Ohana Real Estate Investors paid $191.2 million for the Panther National golf resort and a luxury housing development in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., property records show. The asset spans 392 acres within the Avenir master development at 10391 Panther National Boulevard. Panther National includes an 18-hole…
SL Green Realty has signed two deals totaling 34,564 square feet at its 20-story Midtown East office building at 711 Third Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned. In the largest deal, title insurance and settlement provider Fidelity National Title Insurance signed a new lease for 19,966 square feet on a portion of…
RBH Group has landed $36.7 million of pre-development financing for a mixed-use multifamily project in Newark, N.J., Commercial Observer has learned. CDK Lending provided the loan on the developer’s planned 420-unit apartment complex with ground-floor retail space at 101 Market Street in Newark’s Four Corners…
A month after the New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents on all stabilized leases, a group of landlords has filed a lawsuit claiming that the process was illegally influenced by the mayor. The complaint, filed Wednesday, accuses the...
Following the city’s rent freeze decision in June, it was very much expected that angry New York City landlords — now burdened with even more maintenance costs and increased upkeep on rent-stabilized apartments — would take legal action to overturn the vote. And now it’s a reality. A group of five small landlords…
Justin Segal is President of Boxer Property, where he oversees operations, leasing, technology, and marketing across a national portfolio of office, retail, and hotel assets. He co-founded Brava Systems, an AI-enabled platform originally built for Boxer’s own operations and now deployed across the commercial real…
It’s been well documented and much lamented just how few ground-up residential units are being developed and constructed in New York City due to the limitations of 485-x, a 2-year-old state tax incentive that appears to guide most developers to a 99-unit limit on new multifamily buildings in much of the city in…
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) recently voted to freeze rents on both one- and two-year rent-stabilized lease renewals, fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. For the approximately 2 million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments, the decision was…
U.S. bank real estate loan balances totaled $6.14 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, according to CRED iQ data. Since the first quarter of 2019, the composition of that real estate loan balance book has shifted measurably. Multifamily balances grew the fastest in percentage terms, rising about 53 percent, while…
United Talent Agency (UTA) and Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. announced that the agency will move its New York offices to the Empire State Building next summer. The new office will feature 100,948 square feet across four floors and will house the agency’s filmed entertainment, creators, news, publishing, theatre,…
Two tenants have signed on for 6,960 square feet each at Midtown East’s 757 Third Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned. Yuco Management, a New York City-based real estate development and management firm, inked a deal to take over the entire 27th floor of the 26-story Class A office building owned by New York…
Starwood Capital Group is advancing plans for a pair of data centers in Fairfax County, Va., near the Alexandria border. The investment firm filed plans last week for the first building at its Plaza 500 development, according to the Business Journals, which cited Fairfax County records. Plaza 500 South, the…
ISAIA, a luxury menswear brand out of Naples, Italy, has signed a 13,000-square-foot lease renewal on the 10th floor of the Feil Organization’s 257 Park Avenue South, the property owner announced Tuesday. Feil said the brand has “recommitted” to its corporate showroom space at the property, also known as the…
One World Trade Center is almost 100 percent leased thanks to the latest deal with an artificial intelligence company, Commercial Observer has learned. Mercor, which employs human experts to train AI algorithms, has inked a five-year, 25,550-square-foot deal on the 77th floor of the Lower Manhattan office tower,…
Los Angeles’ Oceanwide Plaza, a massive downtown development stuck in limbo so long it became tagged and transformed into the infamous Graffiti Towers, has been cleared for sale. The long process of selecting a new developer after the original Chinese developer went bankrupt may finally be coming to a close. KPC…
A joint venture between the Ardent Companies and StepStone Real Estate has secured a $140 million loan to refinance a portfolio of eight, Class A self-storage properties in seven northeastern U.S. states, according to a release. ACORE Capital provided the debt, structured as a floating-rate loan, while a JLL…
GO Residential REIT has been on a bit of a buying spree this year, and it just completed its previously announced acquisition of an approximately 81 percent managing interest in a multifamily building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The real estate investment trust, using the LLC GO 409, acquired control of the…
The myriad headwinds facing New York City hotel investors just got even stiffer. The Big Apple’s hospitality industry confronted rising operating and borrowing costs from persistent inflation in recent years that was further compounded by a big drop in international tourism since President Donald Trump assumed…
GFP Real Estate has signed three new deals at its Midtown office tower at 515 Madison Avenue, totaling nearly 9,000 square feet of space, the landlord announced Tuesday. In the largest deal, investment management firm T7 Capital signed a five-year, 3,956-square-foot lease on the building’s 29th floor. It’s unclear…
For a few days last week, two buckling steel columns at the Pfizer Building became the biggest real estate story in America. If you only read the headlines, you might conclude that office-to-residential conversions are suddenly in trouble. The opposite is closer to the truth. Quietly, New York has become the…
NEW YORK CITY — Nashville-based brokerage firm Matthews has negotiated the $15.2 million sale of a 19,873-square-foot mixed-use building in Lower Manhattan. The five-story building at 158 Lafayette St., which was originally constructed in 1915 and renovated in 2017, was vacant at the time of sale and is zoned to…
NEW YORK CITY — HDR has signed a 74,500-square-foot office lease at 7 Penn Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. The architecture and engineering firm will occupy the 15th, 16th and 17th floors of the 18-story, 357,000-square-foot building, which is located at 370 Seventh Ave. Andrew Wiener and Kyle Young represented the…
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $26.3 million loan for the refinancing of The Bridgeline, a 91-unit apartment building in The Bronx. The 12-story building was completed in 2018 and offers amenities such as a fitness center, a resident lounge and a rooftop terrace. Brad Domenico, Frank Stanislaski…
A joint venture consisting of Global Holdings, MAG Partners and Safanad has sealed $141.4 million of bridge debt to refinance a newly built luxury apartment tower in Midtown Manhattan’s Turtle Bay neighborhood, Commercial Observer has learned M&T Realty Capital Corporation provided the loan on the sponsorship’s…
Not many proptech companies have been able to scale their technology to take advantage of the data center construction boom, but one that has cracked the code in servicing the sector’s gargantuan growth is OpenSpace. The San Francisco-based visual intelligence platform has worked on more than 1,000 data center…
When he isn’t home tending to his alpacas — yes, he has alpacas — Craig Deitelzweig, the chief executive officer of owner Marx Realty, is working out ways to beautify the company’s office portfolio, intent on making where people go to work a destination, not a chore. Deitelzweig, a former lawyer who graduated from…
A commercial real estate ownership change occurred in New York's Garment District as Lender Maverick acquired an office property from Hilson Management for approximately $50 million.
Park-It Management refinanced nine properties in New York City through a $42 million loan facility with Provident Bank.
A buyer entity acquired an industrial property in Long Island City from a seller for $2.6 million.
A developer secured a $35 million construction loan from Webster Bank to finance an 83-unit residential project in Astoria.
A well-known matzah bakery purchased an industrial property in Greenwood Heights from Argentic for $4.2 million.
A developer secured a $29 million construction loan from S3 Capital for a 55-unit mixed-use residential project in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Rabsky Group submitted plans for a new 50-unit residential building in Crown Heights.
A real estate investor acquired an industrial property in Harlem from Verizon for $2.2 million.
Union Investment and Nuveen Real Estate completed the sale of a retail property at 1511 Third Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and Union Investment signed a five-year lease with Deutsche Bank for office space in Hamburg's EMPORIO Tower.
Union Investment signed an eight-year lease with personal care company Athena Club for approximately 1,100 sqm of office space at 140 Broadway in New York City, with occupancy expected in June 2026.
Kimco Realty divested a shopping center asset located in Centereach.
JLL represented global private markets investment firm HarbourVest Partners in securing its first New York City office at Soloviev Group’s 9 W. 57th St. The 10-year lease is for 19,752 square feet on a portion of the building’s 49th floor. Headquartered in Boston, HarbourVest is among the world’s leading private…
A talent agency known for its star-studded client list is moving into New York City’s most iconic building.
Law firm Hodgson Russ spearheaded a rush of new leases at Fisher Brothers’ 605 Third Avenue. The firm renewed its 19,900-square-foot lease on the 23rd floor of the tower, located between East 39th and East 40th streets, in June, according to the landlord. Newmark’s Brian Cohen and Kyle Ciminelli negotiated the…
A joint venture consisting of PGIM, Tribeca Investment Group and Meadow Partners has landed a $228.9 million loan to refinance a newly-renovated 19-story office tower in Manhattan’s Midtown South neighborhood. Rialto Capital Management, as part of a joint venture partnership with Hines, supplied the floating-rate,…
If these walls could talk, they’d talk about all the new leasing in Midtown. Infinium Wall Systems, a company that designs, engineers and installs wall systems and doors for offices, has inked a new office and retail lease spanning 30,017 square feet at Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT)’s 1359 Broadway, the landlord…
A joint venture went shopping near SoHo and didn’t come away empty-handed. Infinity Real Estate and KB Realty Partners just acquired the retail condominium at 75 Kenmare Street in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood—just outside of SoHo — for $11.75 million, Commercial Observer can first report. The transaction, which…
Somerset Development has secured $211 million in construction financing to build LIDO Asbury Park, an eight-story, 112-unit luxury condominium on the oceanfront of Asbury Park, N.J., according to a release. Madison Realty Capital and Cottonwood Group provided the construction debt. No broker was listed on the…
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. arranged $228.9 million in financing to refinance 295 Fifth Ave., a newly redeveloped, 19-story Class A office tower in Manhattan’s Midtown South submarket. Better known as the Textile Building, the century-old landmark long served as a hub of New York City’s textile industry. Dustin Stolly,…
Witkoff and Monroe Capital have secured a $302.6 million loan construction loan to build a multifamily tower in Downtown Miami, property records show. The high-rise will include about 890 units and 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space at 700 North Miami Avenue, between the MiamiCentral station and the…