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An artificial intelligence-driven fund administrator is moving its headquarters to TF Cornerstone’s 387 Park Avenue South, Commercial Observer has learned. Hanover Park signed a 19,269-square-foot lease on the entire 10th floor of the NoMad property, marking its fifth office move in two years, according to CEO…
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…
Office furniture manufacturer Haworth is staying seated at 125 Park Avenue. Haworth has signed a 10-year lease renewal for its 30,365-square-foot office and showroom space at the 25-story Midtown office building, landlord SL Green Realty announced Wednesday. The company, which manufactures and sells high-end,…
A $396 million commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan secured by 85 10th Avenue, a 633,000-square-foot office property in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, has been sent to special servicing due to imminent maturity default, according to an alert from Morningstar Credit. 85 10th Avenue is owned jointly…
Harvey Hernandez’s Newgard Group bought a development site in West Palm Beach, Fla., to build an upscale parking garage with a private members club component. The Miami-based developer paid $10.5 million for a 2.6-acre parcel at 2500 North Florida Mango Road, just north of Palm Beach International Airport, property…
Health care technology company SuperDial has inked a full-floor lease at GFP Real Estate’s 322 Eighth Avenue, according to a Wednesday announcement by the landlord. SuperDial’s 5,200-square-foot lease spans the entire 20th floor of the Chelsea office tower on the northeast corner of Eighth Avenue and West 26th…
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…
An artificial intelligence-powered insurance technology company subleasing space in Hudson Square has the attention of Gov. Kathy Hochul. While WithCoverage is only taking 17,663 square feet at GFP Real Estate’s 200 Varick Street, Hochul emphasized future economic benefits of the deal, such as the creation of 205…
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…
A joint venture between Alpha Development Group and Bow River Capital has sealed $58 million of bridge debt to refinance two newly delivered adjacent multifamily developments in Utah’s Heber Valley, Commercial Observer has learned. ArrowMark Partners provided the three-year fixed-rate loan to retire past…
Tankhouse and Lonicera Partners — a pair of Brooklyn-based developers — are in contract to acquire a church property in Downtown Brooklyn and build a new residential building on the site. The developers are set to buy the development site at 360 Schermerhorn Street on the border of Boerum Hill for $28.3 million…
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…
An Uptown Manhattan landlord has purchased a Little Italy office building. Washington Heights-focused Artifact Real Estate Development purchased 165 Grand Street for $28 million from Bijan Nassi of Bijan Royal, according to a deed filing in property records Tuesday afternoon. Nassi, a controversial residential…
The multifamily market is entering a new phase defined less by broad national narratives and more by local realities, operational discipline, and selective opportunity. In a recent conversation on “Inside the Deal, a CRE Podcast by Berkadia®,” host Ernie Katai, executive vice president – head of production for…
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…
Priddy Spaces has signed a 20,000-square-foot lease for a Venture X coworking location in Pompano Beach, Fla. The coworking operator signed a 10-year lease at a 44,102-square-foot office property within Grover Corlew’s Mayla Pompano mixed-use development. Located at 2335 East Atlantic Boulevard, the four-story…
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…
Artificial intelligence-powered wealth management platform Vise is moving from SoHo to 50 Ninth Avenue in the Meatpacking District, where it will quadruple its office space to 11,949 square feet. The space spans the second floor of several combined historic townhomes along the Ninth Avenue frontage and therefore…
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…
Vantage Communities has secured $103 million in bridge debt to refinance a three-property, 864-unit multifamily portfolio in three cities in Texas, Commercial Observer can first report. Benefit Street Partners provided the debt, which will finance the property toward full stabilization and is structured as a…
A 170-year-old monastery in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, has sold for $42.25 million. The Sisters of the Visitation’s 7.5-acre campus at 8902 Ridge Boulevard –– a campus behind 30-foot stone walls, with a monastery, chapel and school –– was bought by a group of Brooklyn- and Miami-based developers and investors with a…
Coastland Residential has nabbed a $84.5 million construction loan for a multifamily development near Tropical Park in southwest Miami-Dade County. The debt from PNC Bank covers the Vybe 75, which will house 366 apartments and 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The eight-story development at 4383…
The smells still coming from the husk of the Lineage Cold Storage warehouse, which caught fire in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 17, defy common description. Nearly 4,000 odor complaints have been lodged with the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), with various descriptions…
A joint venture between Spitzer Enterprises and Arden Group has sealed $109.5 million of permanent financing for a newly-built multifamily tower in Jersey City, Commercial Observer can first report. Northwestern Mutual supplied the loan to retire construction debt following the lease-up and stabilization of…
A major media company is moving its advertising headquarters to Broadway. Comcast Advertising, the advertising sales and technology division of Comcast, has signed a 140,000-square-foot lease at 1540 Broadway, owned by GFP Real Estate and BDT & MSD Partners. The deal represents a relocation for Comcast from 55 West…
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…
Architecture and design firm SWA Group has signed a 5,789-square-foot lease at Olmstead Properties’ 381 Park Avenue South in Midtown South, the landlord announced Tuesday. The 10.5-year lease for the global landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm will stretch across part of the building’s 12th floor.…
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…
Simon Property Group’s second quarter offered more evidence that the nation’s largest mall owner is carrying its post-pandemic run into the second half of 2026. The real estate investment trust said Monday that its quarterly revenue, funds from operations (FFO) and tenant sales are all climbing while the company’s…
Law firm Greenberg Traurig is relocating to another Related Ross building in Downtown West Palm Beach, Fla. The firm signed a 10-year lease to occupy about 25,000 square feet at the 15 CityPlace office development, which remains under construction, the tenant announced. The deal spans the entire 12th floor of the…
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…
Real Capital Solutions (RCS), a real estate investment firm headquartered in Colorado, has launched a new $350 million fund that will target acquiring distressed Class A and Class B offices across the U.S., Commercial Observer can first report. The fund, RCS Contrarian Office Fund, plans to lever-up and ultimately…
Developer El-Ad National Properties has paid $60 million for an oceanfront hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., property records show. The 99-room Sea Club Resort sits on a 1.2-acre site at 619 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, between Belmar and Auramar streets. The 54,982-square-foot building dates back to 1954.…
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…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani are considering high tech options to transfer heat out of subway stations and into the buildings above, in what would likely be a complicated and pricey infrastructure project. Still, city officials and the MTA believe it could be worth it to…
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,…
Obelisk Real Estate Partners has secured $86.2 million to finance the acquisition of a three-building industrial portfolio in Charleston, South Carolina, Commercial Observer can first report. Barings provided the debt, while JLL’s Peter Rotchford, Christopher Peck, and Nicholas Thorton arranged the transaction. The…
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…
On May 21, shortly before Memorial Day weekend, participants in public real estate markets awoke to a truly remarkable headline. AvalonBay Communities, the owner of 98,000 apartments and with a market capitalization of $25 billion, would be merging with Equity Residential, one of the oldest real estate investment…
A historic Beaux-Arts landmark property at 281 Park Avenue South in New York City sold for $81.5 million, brokered by Avison Young and SERHANT.
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…
Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Asset Management has acquired two affordable housing properties in Miami-Dade County from the Gatehouse Group, paying a combined $63.8 million, property records show. In the largest deal, the investor paid $34 million for the 150-unit Magnolia Landing Apartments in the Naranja…
An international advertising agency is more than doubling its office footprint with a new headquarters lease in El Segundo, Calif. Innocean USA signed the 101,000-square-foot deal at Hackman Capital Partners’ creative office campus in the small enclave just south of Los Angeles International Airport. The agency…
Architecture firm Selldorf Architects has renewed its 10-year, 13,815-square-foot lease at Gordon Property Group’s 860 Broadway. Selldorf has called the Flatiron District’s 860 Broadway home for the last two decades, according to landlord brokerage Colliers. The asking rent was not disclosed. However, the average…
Moshe Popack’s YMP Real Estate Management has secured $30 million to refinance Park Towers, a 210-unit multifamily complex in Miami, Commercial Observer can first report. Valley National Bank provided the loan, structured at a fixed-rate of 6.09 percent, while Meridian Capital Group’s David Hayum and Michael…
An artificial intelligence-driven document processing firm is relocating within the Flatiron District, Commercial Observer has learned Extend AI signed an 8,750-square-foot lease across the entire sixth floor of 119 Fifth Avenue in a relocation from its current offices at 135 West 29th Street, according to the…
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…
Invictus Real Estate Partners has secured $67.2 million to refinance Eliot on Ocean, a 194-unit multifamily property in Revere Beach, Mass., a coastal submarket five miles outside of Boston. Bridge Investment Group Holdings provided the debt, structured as a three-year, floating-rate loan, while a JLL Capital…
Fancy adding a 770,386-square-foot trophy office property to your portfolio? You’re in luck. Tishman Speyer is marketing 6 Grand Central for sale, sources told Commercial Observer, with an asking price somewhere around $450 million. The fee simple interest in the property is being marketed by Eastdil Secured’s Gary…