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Mega mall landlord Mike Kohan is at risk of losing half a Chicago Loop office building he just seized from financial distress. A strange dispute at 33 West Monroe Street escalated into a court battle between ground landlord Baptist Theological Union and Kohan, a Great Neck, New York-based investor whose main…
Fancy a trip to the Boardwalk? A pair of New York-based real estate development and investment firms — Nalcorp and Clipper Equity — have acquired a land parcel at 2015 Boardwalk West, an oceanfront development in Coney Island, Brooklyn, from seller Bath Site LLC for $20 million, broker TerraCRG announced Friday.…
Fortress Investment Group has rescued Al Rayyan Tourism Investment Company (ARTIC)’s St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort out of special servicing, supplying a $263 million loan to refinance the oceanfront property. The New York-based lender assumed $188 million in existing debt and added $70 million in new debt backing…
New York-based real estate management and development firm First Pioneer Properties, along with ABS Partners Real Estate, has acquired a Queens retail center from Levy Properties for $23.5 million, property records made public Thursday show. The one-story property at 213-04 Northern Boulevard in Bayside is…
Pinnacle Group has offloaded a $128 million residential and retail condominium portfolio in New York City, less than a year after selling off its rent-stabilized assets. The massive trade, filed in city records this week, spanned 39 transactions across Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. It included nearly 750…
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — A partnership between Simone Development Cos. and Stagg Group is nearing completion of Qwest Towers, a $158 million workforce housing project in Mount Vernon, located north of New York City. Qwest Towers will consist of two buildings that will rise 15 and 12 stories and will house a combined…
NEW YORK CITY — High Street Residential has topped out The Marq, a 25-story apartment building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The Marq will offer 99 units, 25 of which will be reserved as affordable housing, as well as 2,072 square feet of retail space. Amenities will include a gym, sauna, meditation room,…
NEW YORK CITY — Affinius Capital has provided an $89 million acquisition loan for CitySpire, a 371,000-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan. Built in 1987 and renovated in 2004 and 2022, CitySpire features upgraded elevator systems, wellness lounges, conferencing facilities and coworking space.…
Bondholders initiated litigation against American Dream over a significant decline in the property's valuation.
New York City's Mamdani Administration issued a request for proposals for a 140-unit multifamily housing development in East Harlem.
Boston Properties closed a $1.2 billion construction loan for 343 Madison Avenue in New York City and is nearing a deal with an equity partner.
New York City building inspectors issued a stop work order on an office-to-residential conversion project, part of broader regulatory scrutiny of adaptive reuse job sites in the city.
Five years after the Javits Center underwent a $1.5 billion expansion, the Hudson Yards convention venue is continuing to expand its bandwidth to boost its events business and the adjacent New York City hospitality industry. The 3.3 million-square-foot facility recently underwent a $5 million technology upgrade…
Fortress Investment Group has refinanced the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, Fla., following a nasty foreclosure fight with its previous owner, New York-based billionaire Charles Cohen. City National Bank of Florida supplied a $45 million loan backing the 780,000-square-foot office and design showroom…
Heights Advisors, a Brooklyn-based development and investment firm led by founder and president Rachel Foster, is planning to bring 606 affordable housing units to the Bronx’s Soundview neighborhood. The firm filed a land use application Wednesday with the New York City Department of City Planning requesting a…
Happy Corner Hospitality has signed a lease in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood for an offshoot of their Motek concept. Known as Yalla Motek, the restaurant group took 2,500 square feet at David and Jack Israel’s 1147 Broadway, which will be the new Mediterranean chain’s first location in New York City and second in…
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged $147.5 million in construction financing for 2 South Main, a 322-unit multifamily project in Port Chester, located along the New York-Connecticut border. Information on specific floor plans and amenities was not disclosed, but the 12-story building will include 330…
NEW YORK CITY — The Domain Cos. has secured $175.6 million in financing from Wells Fargo for the development of a new multifamily project in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. Canyon Partners Real Estate and BLDG Management are Domain’s equity partners on the deal. Chris Peck and Nicco Lupo of JLL Capital Markets…
NEW YORK CITY — The Shubert Organization has signed an 11-year, 14,480-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The theater owner-operator is relocating to a new space on the 11th floor of 520 Eighth Avenue, a 26-story, 860,000-square-foot building that was constructed in 1926, where Shubert has been a tenant…
The luxury pied-à-terre is alive and well, despite any efforts to stifle — or excessively tax — it. While the second week of August saw a Staten Island Supreme Court judge block the rollout of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax — a controversial surcharge on second homes worth more than $5…
A New York lender is more than ready for a Portland hospitality resurgence. Ready Capital, which assumed full ownership of the The Ritz-Carlton Portland mixed-use project following a foreclosure in July 2025, just secured $141 million of commercial property accessed clean energy (C-PACE) debt for the…
The Richman Group, an $18.5 billion asset management firm, has secured $225 million in permanent financing to refinance three stabilized luxury multifamily properties in South Florida that total 942 units. New York Life Investment Management provided $107 million to refinance the Marc Apartments, a 396-unit…
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has signed an office lease extension and expansion in Midtown Manhattan. The firm now occupies roughly 41,000 square feet at 260 Madison Avenue, a 22-story building. Evan Fiddle of CBRE represented Marcus & Millichap in the lease negotiations. Paul Amrich, Neil King, Meghan Allen…
BROWNSBURG, IND. — Wafra Inc., a New York-based alternative investment firm, has acquired Brownsburg Logistics Park Portfolio, a collection of three industrial buildings totaling 899,080 square feet in Brownsburg. Funds advised by Wafra are acquiring the assets from a venture between Scannell Properties and…
A New York-based investor has acquired The Wilson, the 68-unit adaptive-reuse apartment building at 973 Market Street, from Raintree Partners for $19 million, adding one of the Market Street corridor's most distinctive historic conversions to its holdings. The post Raintree Partners Sells Historic 68-Unit Wilson…
One co-owner of multifamily investment platform ESG Kullen is suing the other for alleged fraud, forgery, concealed financing deals and unauthorized equity transfers. Kullen King Properties and its managing member, Thomas DelPonti, filed a complaint last month in New York County Supreme Court against Eric…
Silverstein Properties announced that Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP has signed a new lease for 11,167 square feet of office space on the 34th floor of 7 World Trade Center. The lease establishes a New York office for the firm, an elite litigation boutique. “Dunn Isaacson Rhee represents the caliber of organization that…
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) and Rudin Management announced today that they have formally agreed to enter into a joint venture with an affiliate of Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel’s Founder and CEO (“KG”), for the development of a 1.9 million square foot trophy office…
Private investment firm SME Capital Ventures is handing ownership of 441 West 37th Street to the condominium board after an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office. SME acquired the building out of foreclosure in 2023. It then failed to pay bills related to the Hudson Yards property and neglected…
Bank of America paid $155 million for five buildings and two parking garages that it had been leasing at its Southside Boulevard operations center campus. The banking giant acquired the property from Ladder Capital of New York City. Bank of America bought about 820,000 square feet of space spanning Buildings 200,…
The affordable housing development push continues in New York City. The Domain Companies has secured $175 million in construction financing to build Elara, a two-building, 429-unit mixed-income housing development in the historic Astoria neighborhood of Queens, Commercial Observer can first report. Wells Fargo…
NEW YORK CITY — Affinius Capital has provided a $40.7 million construction loan for an 84-unit multifamily project in Upper Manhattan. The borrower is Haussmann Development. The site is located within a Qualified Opportunity Zone at 16–20 Convent Ave., adjacent to Columbia University’s campus, and the mixed-income…
Global investment management firm Capital Group is taking space for an additional office in New York City. Capital Group, which is based in Los Angeles and oversees $3.6 trillion in assets, signed a 10-year lease for the entire 70,400-square-foot fourth floor of Rudin’s 345 Park Avenue in Midtown, according to the…
TOPEKA, KAN. — Spore.Bio, a biotechnology company headquartered in France with an existing U.S. presence in New York, has unveiled plans to become the first laboratory tenant at Link Innovation Labs in Topeka. Located in the heart of Topeka’s Innovation District, Link Innovation Labs provides flexible private lab…
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. — IPA has arranged the sale of The Atwood, a 71-unit community in Pleasantville, about 32 miles north of Manhattan. Neither buyer, seller nor sales price was disclosed.… The post IPA Arranges Sale of The Atwood in Pleasantville, New York appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business .
Mitsubishi Estate Asia (MEA) has sold its stake in a portfolio of Australian senior living communities to a pension fund managed by New York-headquartered Mercer Investments. The deal is valued at over A$400 million (about $361 million). MEA had put up its 49.9% stake in Stockland Residential Rental Partnership…
Washington D.C.-based law firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee is establishing a new office in New York City. The firm, which specializes in high stakes trials, investigations and crisis management, has inked an 11,167-square-foot lease on the 34th floor of 7 World Trade Center, developer and landlord Silverstein Properties…
Nonprofit group Alliance for Downtown New York has expanded its Lower Manhattan footprint to 42 Broadway. The Downtown Alliance, which manages the area’s business improvement district, secured a 14,420-square-foot lease at the Financial District tower, according to a recent CBRE office market report. The Downtown…
Comcast Cable has leased 139,692 square feet at 1540 Broadway to consolidate its New York City offices, according to a CBRE report. The company is relocating from 407 Broadway and 55 W. 46th St., reported the New York Business Journal. Savills’ Gabe Marans and Maxine Rosen represented Comcast in the lease signing,…
Jose Tur owns two rent-stabilized rental buildings in Manhattan’s Washington Heights with a total of 45 units. The properties have been in his family for over 30 years, and the mortgages are fully paid off. But Tur tells Commercial Observer that despite this, while he’s reluctant to give an exact number, “more than…
Town Lane, a New York-based real estate investment management firm, has acquired a 23-property industrial outdoor storage (IOS) portfolio and launched a platform venture with Axis Partners, an Atlanta-based industrial owner and operator. The transaction includes an investment by Town Lane in the Axis operating…
New York-based private equity group OceanSound Partners has expanded by more than 10,000 square feet at SL Green Realty’s 450 Park Avenue office tower in Midtown. A new five-year lease secured OceanSound 32,032 square feet across the entire eighth, 22nd and 23rd floors of the office tower at the corner of Park…
NEW YORK CITY — Baker McKenzie has signed an office lease renewal and expansion in Midtown Manhattan. The law firm now occupies 121,833 square feet across more than seven floors at 10 Bryant, a 30-story building located at 452 Fifth Ave. Paul Glickman, Ben Bass and Kate Roush of JLL represented the landlord,…
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — BFC Partners and SAA Canopy Group have obtained $269 in financing for the redevelopment of the Parkside Commons housing complex in Syracuse. The developers will deliver 393… The post BFC Partners and SAA Canopy Group Secure $269M to Finance Affordable Housing Redevelopment in Syracuse, New York…
Life sciences developer Longfellow Real Estate Partners has parted with its first-ever New York City project at a discount. Longfellow’s Hatch Life Sciences Building, located at 43-10 23 Street in Long Island City, Queens, has sold for $86.9 million, according to city records filed Friday. Pearl Realty Management’s…
HANAHAN, S.C. — New York City-based Obelisk Real Estate Partners has acquired a two-building industrial park spanning 516,000 square feet (5801 N. Rhett Ave.) and an adjacent 305,250-square-foot industrial building (1020 N. Pointe Industrial Blvd.) in Hanahan, approximately eight miles outside North Charleston. Oak…
Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. has refinanced the assets in its two remaining CRE CLOs, GPMT 2021-FL3 and GPMT 2021-FL4, on its JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. repurchase facility, which it recently extended to July 2028, with three one-year term extension options. In connection with the refinance, the company upsized…
Derek Jeter is taking a swing at developing in a major college town near you. Alum, a hospitality and real estate company backed by the former New York Yankees star, officially launched its business this week. Jeter will serve as a board adviser, ambassador and investor in the company. Co-founded by Paul Brenneke…
New York City — A joint venture between Hawkins Way Capital and Varde Partners has acquired a student housing property located at 81 E. 3rd St. in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood for… The post Hawkins Way, Varde Partners Acquire Student Housing Property in Manhattan’s East Village for $28 Million appeared…
S2 Capital’s Scott Everett already has $400 million in apartment foreclosures. Now, lenders are suing him for what they claim he owes. Capital One is seeking a $11.5 million judgment against Everett after he defaulted on an $85.2 million loan from the bank, according to an Aug. 4 filing in New York Supreme Court.…
NEW YORK CITY — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged $131.5 million in construction financing for a student housing development in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. The 28-story building at 465 W. 165th St. will offer 276 fully furnished units…
NEW YORK CITY — Chelsea Piers Fitness will open a 76,000-square-foot gym in Lower Manhattan. The space, which includes 9,000 square feet for outdoor fitness uses, will span five levels within the planned mixed-use building at 250 Water St., which is being developed by a partnership between local developer Tavros…
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $137.5 million refinancing loan for 12 Halsey, a 240-unit mixed-income development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. EJS Group and… The post EJS, Hope Street Secure $137.5M ReFi for Brooklyn Development appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…
Angela Gentry has carved out her own spot in New York City’s commercial real estate scene. In 2022, Gentry, who at the time had more than 20 years of experience in the field, joined JLL in a role specifically created for her: executive managing director of sales and platform for the New York tri-state area. […]
Rudin has secured an agreement with JAMS, a provider of alternative dispute resolution services, to relocate its New York Resolution Center to 3 Times Square. The tenant will occupy 55,335 square feet across the entirety of the building’s top two floors. As part of the 11-year lease, JAMS is expected to move from…
NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National Healthcare Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: NHP) announced today that it will redeem all of the outstanding (i) 3,289,061 shares of its 7.375% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (CUSIP: 42226B204) (the “Series A Preferred Stock”)…
A historic New York City hotel has received a new round of debt financing. Kensico Properties has secured $106 million to refinance the Lowell Hotel, a 17-story, 74-key luxury boutique hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East that the firm purchased and redeveloped in 1984, Commercial Observer can first report. Blue Owl…
We can discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence creating art all day long, but the fact is these companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and they need office space. Generative AI music platform Suno has taken 12,048 square feet across the fifth floor of 515 West 20th Street for its first New York City…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New York-based Tishman Speyer has purchased Berkshire Dilworth, a 296-unit apartment community located at 1351 E. Morehead St. in Charlotte. Berkshire Residential sold the property to Tishman Speyer’s TS Plus fund for $76.3 million, according to the Charlotte Business Journal. The community is…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — New York City-based Global Asset Management Group (GNAM) is underway on the $92 million redevelopment of the 386,404-square-foot former Memorial Hospital campus in Pawtucket, located just north of Providence. Plans currently call for approximately 200 residential units, including both market-rate…