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Predication and betting site Polymarket has doubled its footprint at 78 Crosby Street to 12,700 square feet, adding the fifth floor to the space it already leases on the fourth floor. Polymarket has been headquartered at the Lower Manhattan building since 2023. Its original lease for 6,350 square feet was also…
TPG AG U.S. Real Estate and Redfearn Capital have acquired a 5.4 million-square-foot industrial portfolio for $628 million, Commercial Observer can first report. The seller was DRA Advisors, while BDT & MSD Partners provided a $479 million loan in the deal, sources said. The 53-building portfolio, which is roughly…
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…
The immigration attorneys at Manifest Law will be making some of their own moves, Commercial Observer has learned. The law firm signed a 18,200-square-foot sublease at Koeppel Rosen’s 902 Broadway, where it will be taking over space previously occupied by Adaptive Security, according to tenant brokerage Nomad…
Restaurateurs Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith are making a splash on the Upper West Side. The couple and co-founders of New England-style seafood spot Mermaid Inn have selected 61 West 74th Street for their next venture, Commercial Observer has learned. Abrams secured the 2,300-square-foot lease, plus a basement…
Nordstrom Rack has signed a 22,000-square-foot lease in Wellington, Fla., the Seattle-based retailer announced Thursday. Nordstrom Rack is the discount concept run by Nordstrom. The new store, set to open in spring 2027, will be at The Shoppes at Isla Verde at 800-1020 South State Road 7. Other tenants include Best…
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…
Warp, an artificial intelligence-driven employee management platform, has more than tripled its office footprint for the second time in 12 months. The startup recently secured a 16,500-square-foot expansion to fully occupy the seventh floor at 156 Fifth Avenue, less than a year after settling at the Flatiron…
Milestone Group has sold a garden-style multifamily community near Zoo Miami for just $2 million more than it paid to acquire the property five years ago. Harbor Group International (HGI) bought the 505-unit Emerald Palms Apartments for $109 million, property records show. The 28-acre property includes 37…
Maybern, a financial technology company that specializes in fund management solutions for private markets, has signed a long-term lease renewal at 10 Astor Place, nearly tripling its footprint in the GFP Real Estate-owned building. As part of the deal, Maybern will grow from 11,000 square feet to 30,000 square…
Scott Rechler’s RXR continues to secure capital from institutional lenders. RXR, together with joint venture partners Halpern Real Estate Investments, Korman Communities and Invent Development Partners, has secured $125 million in construction debt for AVE Station House, a 13-story, 301-unit luxury multifamily…
Starwood Property Trust’s stock tanked hours after the firm reported its second-quarter earnings, dropping 4 percent in one morning, as the firm reported major declines in net income. Starwood’s stock currently trades at $15.55 per share, down 6 percent from where it traded one month ago and down nearly 20 percent…
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.…
Rudin has hired Craig Panzirer as senior vice president for office leasing, Commercial Observer has learned. Panzirer began the new role in July. He is now tasked with leading the leasing strategy of Rudin’s 8.6 million-square-foot portfolio of office properties, including major towers like 345 Park Avenue, 3 Times…
Timberlane Partners has secured $52 million to refinance Sumner Mill Apartments, a 162-unit multifamily community outside of Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., Commercial Observer can first report. Mesa West provided the debt, structured as a short-term, first-mortgage loan, while BWE’s Jake Roberts arranged the…
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…
When you walk into a building developed by Marx Realty, you might find yourself curious if you accidentally skipped work and entered a luxury hotel — and that’s exactly what Marx wants. Marx, known for its hospitality-infused approach to the office, has announced a $68 million repositioning at 430 Park Avenue, a…
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. […]
Prosper Group and Versluys Group have paid $50 million for a development site in Miami’s Brickell district, where they plan to build a $650 million condo tower, the joint venture announced. The 1-acre assemblage includes three parcels: one along the Miami River, with more than 300 feet of water frontage, as well as…
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”)…
Brookfield Asset Management raised a record $77 billion in the second quarter of 2026, bringing its assets under management to more than $1 trillion, the investment firm reported in an earnings call Wednesday. Year-to-date, the investor has brought in $98 billion, more than half of what Brookfield raised for all…
Krea USA nabbed a $61.8 million construction loan for a multifamily development in Lauderhill, Fla., property records show. The financing from Abanca Bank covers the 385-unit Le Parc at Lauderhill development, at 3831 Northwest 13th Street, just east of the Lauderhill Mall and North State Road 7. The 10-acre…
BlackRock has acquired more than 3,600 rental residential units in Southern California in one of the region’s largest commercial real estate deals in recent memory. It’s also the largest U.S. multifamily sale since June 2024. One of the investment vehicles run by the asset management titan put down $1.63 billion…
Ultimate Equity has acquired a 69-unit townhome community in Hollywood, Fla., for $32 million, Cushman & Wakefield announced. The gated community called Royal Oaks in the Emerald Hills neighborhood changed hands in an all-cash 1031 exchange acquisition at a record price per unit for the submarket, and a…
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…
Cushman & Wakefield said Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings were strong enough to boost the commercial real estate services giant’s per-share earnings guidance for the year. “Our results this year demonstrated that we have hit our stride, and we’ve gotten there fast,” C&W CEO Michelle MacKay said Wednesday…
Zenith IOS, JPMAM Seal $215M Credit Facility With KeyBank, Truist As the industrial outdoor storage space continues to gain momentum, some key players are celebrating the next phase of their partnership with a fresh round of financing. Zenith Industrial Outdoor Storage and J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) just…
“No one is building new regional malls, and roughly 90 percent of our go-forward NOI comes from Class A assets and the best retailers of the world.” So said Jackson Hsieh, president and CEO of Macerich, early on during the mall-focused real estate investment trust’s second-quarter earnings call Tuesday afternoon.…
A biotechnology firm is relocating its lab space from West Harlem to Midtown South. Volastra Therapeutics signed an 18,120-square-foot lease in the Alexandria Center for Life Science at 430 East 29th Street, owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, according to CBRE. Volastra is subleasing space on the 11th floor…
Rowland Hobbs is CEO and co-founder of Stake, a fintech platform that rewards renters with cash back, working to make renting financially rewarding. Before Stake, he led design and innovation at Teneo and served as head of product design for Accenture North America, and he founded Post+Beam, an innovation design…
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…
NEW YORK CITY — JPMorganChase has announced it will deploy $750 billion to support affordable housing production through 2035. Called the American Dream Initiative, the $750 billion commitment will serve… The post JPMorganChase Commits $750B to Increase Housing Supply appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…
For 18 years, part of the New York City team at national architecture firm Corgan has called the 54th floor of the Empire State Building home. But, after nearly two decades, even an office in a building as iconic as that one needs a good sprucing up. Corgan’s footprint in the Empire State Building went […]
LM Real Estate Partners acquired Smyrna's 3M industrial property for $27M, reflecting a 40% price surge.
AmTrustRE has signed the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) to 39,000 square feet at 250 Broadway for its new headquarters. Occupancy is expected in Q1 2027. “We’re proud to welcome the Taxi and Limousine Commission to 250 Broadway as they establish their new headquarters,” said Jonathan Bennett,…
Prologis, the world’s largest industrial landlord, is about to get even bigger. The San Francisco-based real estate investment trust (REIT) has succeeded in its fourth offer to acquire rival Segro, the United Kingdom’s largest REIT, in a deal valuing Segro’s equity at roughly $18.8 billion. Prologis announced…
Ailing Alexandria Real Estate Equities is showing signs of improvement as leasing increased over the second quarter of 2026, a hopeful sign of progress after several quarters of declining fundamentals. The real estate investment trust (REIT) posted earnings Tuesday that show declining balance sheet performance with…
Wafra Inc., a New York-based alternative investment firm, announced the acquisition of Brownsburg Logistics Park Portfolio, a three-building industrial portfolio totaling 899,080 square feet in Brownsburg, Indiana. Funds advised by Wafra are acquiring the assets from a venture between Scannell Properties, an…
Blue Owl Capital is pushing beyond Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley after acquiring a 71-acre development site in Culpeper, Va., for $66.4 million. Blue Owl’s data center operator Stack Infrastructure purchased Culpeper Technology Park at 15140 Keyser Road from RACM. The transaction is equal to more than…
Walmart has paid $11.7 million for development land by the western end of Palm Beach County, Fla., in the latest example of retailers taking greater control over their retail presence, property records show. The vacant, 24-acre parcel at 5253 Seminole Pratt Whitney Road sits within Minto Communities’ Westlake…
Why did the chicken cross the continent? To get to new customers on the other side. Popular fast-casual grilled chicken restaurant El Pollo Loco has signed a lease to open its first-ever East Coast location in New York City, Commercial Observer has learned. El Pollo Loco signed a 10-year lease for 2,400 square feet…
Vornado Realty Trust announced Tuesday morning that it could levy as much as $350 per square foot at one of its latest office developments, at a time when rents over $300 a square foot at trophy properties are becoming the norm. 350 Park Avenue, which Vornado is developing with Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Rudin, may […]
Urban Standard Capital has deepened its relationship with a major Arizona bank. Commercial Observer can first report that Urban Standard Capital has increased its aggregate financing capacity for transitional commercial real estate loans with Western Alliance Bank — a Phoenix-based regional bank with $90 billion of…
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $137.5 million loan for 12 Halsey, 240-unit apartment building in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Completed last fall, 12 Halsey occupies a full city block and offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units, 30 percent of which are reserved as affordable…
GREENWICH, CONN. — The Richman Group, a multifamily owner and operator based in Greenwich, has obtained loans for the refinancing of three luxury apartment communities in Florida totaling approximately $225 million. The deals include a $107 million loan via New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) for The Marc…
A $506 million CMBS backed by New York rent-stabilized apartments faces foreclosure as Mayor Mamdani's rent freeze threatens to deepen bondholder losses. The post New York Rent Freeze Deepens CMBS Losses on Stabilized Housing Portfolio appeared first on Propmodo .
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Habitat Co., along with partners Duvernay + Brooks and Bridges Development, an affiliate of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, has started construction of the first phase… The post Habitat Starts Construction of First Phase of $600M Affordable Housing Redevelopment in Buffalo, New York…
Federal IT contractor TekSynap has signed a long-term lease for a 26,500-square-foot floor at BXP’s Reston Town Center in Northern Virginia. TekSynap provides cloud integration, cybersecurity, software development and IT modernization services for civilian, defense and intelligence agencies. The Reston-based…
The University of California is extending its streak of commercial real estate investment after acquiring a 16-property portfolio immediately south of UCLA in Los Angeles. The Regents of the University of California, which governs the state’s university system, put down $49.8 million for the properties in Westwood…
Brooklyn-based Terra Developers has made a $28 million residential redevelopment play for 500 Columbus Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The 35,300-square-foot mixed-use building was sold to Terra by longtime owner CKMR Corporation, formerly Sloan’s Supermarkets, according to property records filed Friday. The…
The dispute resolution firm is taking 55K SF at 3 Times Square.
A development team of Slate Property Group, The Hudson Companies and Volunteers of America–Greater New York was selected to build nearly 1,000 apartments on a long-vacant lot in the Hunter’s Point South neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens. To be known as The Orion, the three-building, $700-million project…
CIP Real Estate has paid $99 million for an industrial and office park in Broward County, Fla., property records show. Called Lyons Business Park, the property includes about 10 buildings, totaling 338,000 square feet It’s located at 6601 Lyons Road in Coconut Creek, Fla., near the corner with Johnson Road, about a…
LMXD and BedRock Real Estate Partners have closed on a $250 million loan to facilitate the purchase and construction of a housing development in Astoria, Queens, Commercial Observer has learned. The financing from New York Life Investment Management gets the wheels turning on the development of 560 mixed-income…