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New York's Streets Are Full Again, and the Retail Numbers Prove It
New York City retail activity and foot traffic have rebounded, supported by quantified market data.
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New York City retail activity and foot traffic have rebounded, supported by quantified market data.
Long Island's industrial market is experiencing further tightening driven by growing distribution demand across the northeast region.
Cannabis dispensaries are becoming established retail tenants in New York, displacing traditional retail categories like restaurants and clothing stores and emerging as a mainstay for landlords.
Manhattan retail vacancy rates declined in the second quarter, leading a citywide recovery with mixed results across New York City markets.
Analysis of rent collection performance across U.S. affordable housing markets, with Florida markets showing strong collection rates and regional comparisons including New York and Boston.
SitusAMC released its quarterly ValTrends research report offering data-driven insights into commercial real estate valuation trends for Q1 2026.
Housing isn’t making anyone happy these days. In a survey of more than 100 principals and executives across private real estate investment firms, Berkadia found that 61 percent of respondents characterized their outlook for the multifamily market in the second half of 2026 as negative, Commercial Observer can first…
New York City developers are combining housing subsidies and zoning strategies to construct larger affordable housing units, with 99-unit projects becoming a dominant development pattern.
SL Green reports improved cash flow and earnings tied to recovery in the Manhattan office market.
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…
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…
Across the 50 largest commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) markets, $45.8 billion of $393.5 billion in outstanding balance is currently distressed, a balance-weighted rate of 11.6 percent, according to CRED iQ data. Minneapolis, Denver and Oklahoma City lead the distress rankings at 55.1 percent, 35.9…
Commercial real estate investment sales activity in the United States reached its strongest pace in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period in 2022.
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…
U.S. office attendance is on the rise, but the return-to-office trend remains a tale of two cities. In the first half of 2026, office visits nationwide rose 6 percent year-over-year, and achieved the narrowest first-half gap from pre-pandemic levels thus far, data from foot-traffic tracker Placer.ai shows. The…
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…
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 […]
Highland Park, IL and Overland Park, KS round out the top three. Demand from highly compensated employees of the San Francisco Bay Area’s AI companies earns Noe Valley the No. 7 spot among Redfin’s hottest luxury neighborhoods this year. Strong demand, despite elevated costs, is outpacing supply in many high-end…
An iconic office complex in the City of Bridges has hit a dead end. The $92 million commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan secured by Gateway Center, an iconic office complex in Downtown Pittsburgh, has liquidated via a note sale, resulting in a $64.8 million loss to the CMBS trust, according to an alert…
PARAMUS, N.J., Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ALEXANDER’S, INC. (New York Stock Exchange: ALX) filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 today and reported:
For commercial real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities investors, brokers and lenders trying to separate signal from noise in a choppy market, granularity is everything. CRED iQ‘s July 2026 reporting period data looks to provide exactly that with a loan-level view of distress across the $600…
Image Favorable supply and demand dynamics drive strong performance metrics for this new REIT.
New York City’s office-to-residential boom has been operating under a microscope for the past month, and that’s simply because office buildings have become too valuable to get wrong. That notion was on display again this week when the Department of Buildings issued a partial stop-work order at SL Green’s conversion…
You’re currently enjoying free access to this subscriber-only newsletter. If you find it valuable and want it delivered to your inbox every week, subscribe to TRD Data. Welcome to The Data Drop by TRD Data, a weekly look at the numbers shaping real estate. The New York City Department of Finance last week released…
New York City’s declines in international tourism over the past year since President Donald Trump assumed office are starting to affect Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT)’s finances. The real estate investment trust (REIT) reported second-quarter funds from operations (FFO) of $57 million, or 21 cents per share,…
Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT) reported a net loss of $81.2 million in the second quarter of 2026, but its executives were optimistic during a Thursday morning earnings call about turning its portfolio around. The publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) posted a second-quarter loss of 48…
An earlier post described how the top ten builders in the country accounted for 43.6% of new single-family closings in 2025. BUILDER magazine has now released additional data on the top ten builders within each of the 50 largest new home markets in the U.S., ranked by single-family permits. It is important to note…
Equinix significantly increased its forecasts and expectations for 2026 after posting another record-heavy quarter on the back of artificial intelligence demand and more data center construction. The Redwood City, Calif.-based data center real estate investment trust (REIT) generated $2.63 billion in second-quarter…
The second Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh signaled another reality check of higher-for-longer interest rates to the commercial real estate industry. In a 9-3 vote, the FOMC maintained its benchmark interest rate Wednesday at between 3.5 percent and 3.75…
Surging data center services revenue and a rebound in U.S. office leasing stood out in CBRE’s strong second-quarter results for 2026. During a Wednesday morning earnings call, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm reported $11.2 billion in second-quarter revenue, roughly in line…
BXP, the largest Class A office owner in the country, has landed a $1.2 billion construction loan to build its 930,000-square-foot office tower development at 343 Madison Avenue in Midtown, the real estate investment trust (REIT) announced Wednesday morning during its second-quarter earnings call. The financing for…
A handful of the latest commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation (CLO) deals lean hard into multifamily collateral and full-term interest-only structures. CRED iQ analyzed loan-level collateral across a handful of the latest CRE CLO deals totaling $4.68 billion and 160 loans of collateral with the…
Summary and analysis of New Jersey’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
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Summary and analysis of Long Island’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
Summary and analysis of Westchester County’s current economic and office real estate market conditions.
J.P. Morgan outlines key 2026 trends for New York multifamily investors, including trade velocity shifts and persistent interest rate environment.
Manhattan remained the primary driver of New York City’s investment sales market during the first half of 2026 with total dollar volume increasing 50% year-over year to $9.87 billion across 238 transactions, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Manhattan 2026 Mid- Year Commercial Real Estate Trends report. The…
Blackstone’s growth continued unabated in the first half of 2026, as the firm leveraged its enormous data center and AI platform to report strong shareholder returns. In the second quarter, the firm delivered more than 20 percent year-over-year growth across total revenues, fee revenues, fee-related earnings, net…
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…
New York's single-tenant retail market delinquency rate is more than double Los Angeles's. But the real story isn't how much distress exists, but what kind of distress it is. The New York City metropolitan statistical area (MSA) carries an 18.5% delinquency rate, compared with 8.0% in Los Angeles, the…
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…
Capital Economics analysis of global commercial property market conditions, examining tariff impacts, investment trends, and economic growth headwinds across asset classes.
New York City investment sales dipped 10 percent over the second quarter of 2026, according to Avison Young’s latest property sales report. Under the hood, however, the city’s commercial real estate market is barreling past its 2025 pace. Overall investment sales in New York City rose annually by 60 percent in the…
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…
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…
The gap between single-family rents and multifamily rents has widened massively. A look at 14 big markets.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.