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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…
Analysis of Boston's office development activity relative to Northeast peers and national construction trends.
In a market where finding a development opportunity is akin to “finding a needle in a haystack,” and existing policy can “break the backs” of developers who want to build housing, it follows that a majority of the development community has “redlined” it to curtail future investment. It’s no surprise to hear that…
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…
The long-awaited wave of distressed commercial real estate strategies has not materialized. That was the contrarian conclusion in a new Avison Young national capital markets brief released Tuesday showing that fundraising has not matched years of predictions for increased investments in distressed properties. The…
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…
Area 15 in Las Vegas is a retail and entertainment complex featuring shops and food and beverage outlets in addition to attractions that take the complex far beyond traditional retail. Inside Area 15, which New York-based Fisher Brothers developed, Interstellar Arc bills itself as “the world’s largest VR…
Analysis of Manhattan's recovery in cross-border commercial real estate investment activity despite broader market headwinds.
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…
Brookfield Asset Management is lined up for a big industrial acquisition. The global alternative asset manager with more than $1 trillion of assets under management has teamed with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to acquire LXP Industrial Trust in an all-cash deal valued at approximately…
Brookfield Asset Management has established a joint venture with Denver-based real estate investment trust (REIT) Healthpeak Properties for an interest in its vast medical property portfolio. The capital partnership, announced Monday, hands Brookfield and its affiliates a 49 percent interest in Healthpeak’s 86…
In a test of the appetite for Times Square offices, BXP has hired Will Silverman and Gary Phillips at Eastdil Secured to market the 7 Times Square ground lease, Commercial Observer has learned. BXP expects to ask from $700 million to $750 million. A source close to the deal said the price will be just […]
Two companies signed recent deals at SL Green Realty’s 1185 Avenue of the Americas. In the largest lease, international specialty insurance firm Ryan Specialty signed a 10-year renewal and expansion lease at the 42-story office property, taking 29,166 square feet across the building’s entire 38th floor, the…
Goldcrest Properties has sealed $25.5 million of acquisition financing for the purchase of a New Jersey multifamily asset, Commercial Observer has learned. M&T Realty Capital, a subsidiary of M&T Bank, provided the interest-only bridge loan for Goldcrest’s $33.8 million purchase of the 125-unit Hope’s Crossing…
Grocery delivery app Instacart is getting a bigger home in Midtown. The San Francisco-based technology company has signed a 26,134-square-foot lease at Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT)’s 111 West 33rd Street, the landlord announced Monday. The seven-year lease was signed during the second quarter of 2026, according…
RICS quarterly survey of commercial property market conditions across North America for Q4 2025.
RICS quarterly survey of commercial property market sentiment and activity across North America.
NEW YORK CITY — Investment management firm Axonic Capital has arranged a $72 million senior loan for the refinancing of the leasehold interest of 430 Park Avenue, a 19-story office building in Midtown Manhattan. The floating-rate loan was funded through Axonic’s affiliated insurance business. The…
Los Angeles-based United Talent Agency (UTA), known for its high-profile clients, has aptly selected New York City’s most famous office building for its new East Coast headquarters. UTA leased 100,948 square feet at the Empire State Building in a move that will consolidate its various office locations across…
UTEX Storage Partners has secured a $42.5 million loan to refinance a two-property self-storage portfolio in Miami-area cities Coral Gables, Fla. and Pembroke Pines, Fla., Commercial Observer can first report. Affinius Capital and Axonic Capital provided the debt — the fifth such joint origination between the two…
Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are teaming up for a $5.2B bet on the U.S. industrial market. BAM, the New York-based investment management arm of Toronto-based Brookfield Corp., and CPPIB plan to buy LXP Industrial...
Few names are as engrained in Southern California industrial real estate — or baseball — as Dedeaux. The family business traces its roots to legendary University of Southern California baseball coach Rod Dedeaux, who led the Trojans to 11 national championships and coached U.S. Olympic teams after founding trucking…
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets investment firm, is moving into its first New York City office, Commercial Observer has learned. The firm, which is headquartered in Boston, has inked a 10-year deal for 19,752 square feet on part of the 49th floor of the Soloviev Group’s 9 West 57th Street. The asking…
The Manhattan market has been experiencing a prolonged post-pandemic occupancy recovery, despite strong ADR gains. Although legislative and supply changes should bolster this recovery, recent geopolitical factors and the tariffs and policy changes enacted by the new federal…
This is a market report published by Fitch Ratings examining how New York City rent freeze policies affect rent-stabilized multifamily properties and create pressure on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities risk at a national level.
July 17, 2026
This is a global retail market report published by Cushman & Wakefield in April 2026 covering major cities including London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Dallas-Fort Worth. The report addresses retail sector conditions alongside office, industrial, and data center markets at national and global levels.
This is a market report published by Cushman & Wakefield on June 13, 2024, examining office sector dynamics and resurgence in New York City using location intelligence analysis. The report is categorized as covering office and industrial sectors, though the title indicates a focus on Manhattan's office market.
This is a market report published by Cushman & Wakefield in February 2023 covering flight to quality trends in the office and industrial sectors as of year-end 2022, with a geographic focus on Dallas.
Class A vacancy in prime Manhattan submarkets returned to pre-pandemic levels below 4% and rent growth neared 5%, while softer job growth pressures lower-income and rent-regulated apartments.