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• December 2023 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Large office owners such as Blackstone, Brookfield, and RXR have already handed lenders the keys to some office buildings, figuring they are worth less than their debt. A $670 million loan on RXR’s 230 Park Avenue also known as the Helmsley Building is set to mature on Dec. 8. The mortgage was sent to special servicing and the landlord is facing “imminent maturity default.” RXR is working to restructure the loan. Scott Rechler’s firm purchased the 35-story, 1.4 million-square-foot landmarked property for $1.2 billion in 2015. It took out a $785 million acquisition loan from American International Group for …
  
  
• August 2021 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Landlords have reduced office rent. Average asking Manhattan office rent in the second quarter was $72.77 a foot, down 8.2% from a year ago, and down 0.6% from the first quarter. Leasing volume from April through June was 4.5 million square feet, which was up by 43% from the same period last year, but unchanged from the first quarter which was 45% lower than Manhattan’s five-year rolling average, 8.27 million square feet. There was a gradual tightening of subleasing availability as companies reduced the amount of space they had for sublease. Manhattan sublet availability shrank by 340,000 square feet …
  
  
• August 2016 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings For Sale: The Blackstone Group is shopping its 665,000-square-foot office tower at 1065 Sixth Avenue and hopes to get as much as $700 million. ABC Carpet & Home is shopping around its property at 880-888 Broadway, an office-and-retail condominium that could get upwards of $200 million, or over $2,600 per square foot. ABC has owned and fully occupied the six-story, 76,400-square-foot building since 1981. The property has a 20,600-square-foot retail condo and a 55,800-square-foot condo for office and manufacturing space. It is still not clear if ABC Carpet would vacate upon selling the building or make a sale-leaseback agreement. …
  
  
• May 2016: New York New Developments
• New Developments General Growth Properties and Thor Equities' are planning to add five new floors of office space at 685 Fifth Avenue. The developers are planning to redistribute space from the lower floors to create five new floors of office space that will be added to the 20-story building, raising its height from 227 feet to 292 feet.Isaac Chetrit">Isaac Chetrit and Ray Yadidi are planning a mixed-use skyscraper of up to 80 stories in a block-long assemblage on Sixth Avenue between West 36th and 37th streets, consisting of two existing buildings and 235,000 square feet of adjacent air rights. They …
  
  
• April 2015: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Chinese insurance company Groups bought the Waldorf Astoria for nearly $2 billion. It was the largest ever Chinese investment in a single Manhattan property and that was negotiated chairman Wu Xiaohui to chairman Jonathan Gray head of real estate for Blackstone.Maddd Equities bought the school component of a 14-story Upper East Side building for $24.5 million. The school is located inside a 181,700-square-foot building at 1225-1239 Second Avenue, located between East 64th and 65th streets. The Grace Institute had owned the roughly 45,200-square-foot space since 1963.David Berley purchased 160-162 Lexington for $24.5 million from Lexington Landmark …