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- May 2024 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- Office: The chief executive of Manhattan’s second-largest landlord bemoaned free rent and tenant allowances as a “killer.” Vornado needs to commit as much as $300 per square foot on concessions to secure companies as tenants for more than $40 per square foot over 10-year deals. The weighted average rent of Vornado’s Manhattan office buildings is $100 per square foot. Demand for the best office buildings in New York has not only recovered but it’s causing a spillover effect. Large tenants that have lease terminations over the next several years are racing to snap up space while it’s hot in trophy …
- February 2023 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- Office: The amount of available office space has increased almost 70% since the onset of the pandemic to 91.4 million square feet. After 2.8 million square feet of negative net absorption in the fourth quarter, net absorption since the start of the pandemic now stands at negative 37.6 million square feet. Asking rents for Class A space in Manhattan averaged $81.51 per square foot in the fourth quarter, up slightly from a year ago. Net effective rents are down after factoring in concessions. Tenants in the TAMI are increasingly upgrading to newer spaces. While 37% of companies in those fields …
- August 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- Office: Business leaders have started to accept that remote work is here to stay. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna recently said that only 60% of workers for the company would ever return to the office. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, once a staunch advocate of in-person work, also altered company policies this year, while recognizing remote work’s staying power. Meta, Amazon pulling back on New York Office plans and are cutting back on expanding their office footprints in New York. Meta decided not to take an additional 300,000 square feet of space at 770 Broadway. Meta is also pausing a plan …
- April 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- Office: Developers have started office projects totaling 2.1 million square feet since the beginning of 2021, well below the 3.2 million square feet of office construction starts in 2019 and the 5.7 million square feet of office construction starts in 2020. There are 19 million square feet of office construction underway in Manhattan. Deliveries are expected to surpass supply in both 2022 and 2023, increasing the supply of office stock by 4%, after that, however, office deliveries will likely begin to fall off in 2024, a decline that may continue through 2027. Many office tenants appear to be ready to …
- February 2022 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- Retail: Manhattan’s retail market is slowly making a comeback. Last quarter aggregate leasing velocity rose to about 1.86 million square feet. The figure is up 17% from the prior quarter, but still 14% below the prior year.The number of direct ground-floor availability in the fourth quarter decreased to 266 spaces from the 282 recorded in the third quarter, across the 16 retail corridors. On Broadway in SoHo, availability dropped 24% from 25 to 19 spaces. The average retail asking rent in those 16 retail corridors dropped about 1% to $597 per square foot or 8% below the prior year. This …
- November 2020 New York New Developments
- New York New Developments Tourism in NYC has fallen by 80% and nearly 9 in 10 office employees are still working remotely. The New York City Employees’ Retirement System ramped up its exposure only to see it underperform the stock market by $260 million and rack up at least $110 million in fees between 2016 and 2019. The pandemic has shaved $16 billion off projected construction spending in 2020 and 2021. The New York Building Congress estimates spending will reach $55.5 billion this year, down from the $65.9 billion previously forecasted. Next year, spending will be just about flat at …
- June 2020 New York Buildings For Sale
- Buildings Sold: The volume of commercial real estate deals fell to the lowest level in a decade. Deal volume totaled $11 billion, a 71% year-over-year drop. The number of deals, meanwhile, has fallen an average of 36% since January, but saw a drop of 61% between March and April. Although some property types fared better than others, not one ended the month on a high note. Hotel sales descended to $5.1 billion, their lowest level since RCA started recording transactions. The office and industrial sectors performed the “best,” but each still notched a 60% drop in transactions. Shulamit Prager’s Opal …
- November 2019 New York New Developments
- Major Developments: Barneys has been sold to Authentic Brands Group and B. Riley for around $270 million. The new owners will likely shut Barneys’ locations, including its 275,000-square-foot flagship property at 660 Madison Avenue. IBM is looking for 500,000 square feet to consolidate its New York office space from multiple locations including a WeWork. IBM’s lease at WeWork’s 88 University runs through 2024. Vornado Realty Trust has encountered more retail challenges as Forever 21 filed for bankruptcy protection. However, Forever 21 may be able to keep its stores at 435 Seventh Avenue and 1540 Broadway open for a bit longer. …
- September 2018 New York Buildings For Sale
- NYC Buildings Sold: Invesco buying the office condo at 1745 Broadway from SL Green Realty and Ivanhoe Cambridge for an estimated $633 million (although in transfer documents the price was $596 million). 250 Water Street development site was bought by the Howard Hughes Corp for $183 million. 101 West 57th Street hotel was bought by the Hilton Grand Vacations for $174 million. Michael Shvo has purchased the office portion of 685 Fifth Avenue from General Growth Partners. Shvo has partnered with the Wings Group, BLG Capital and Deutsche Finance America to purchase floors five through 20 of the building for …
- June 2015: New York New Developments
- Foot traffic on madison avenue has declined by 200,000 people over the last seven months when the Whitney closed in October. While many luxury retailers still maintain locations there, some of them are global brands that are simply there for the status and are actually losing money on the area rents.The City Council approved plans for One Vanderbilt, the 63-story, 1.6 million-square-foot office tower to be built next to Grand Central Station. The tower will be anchored by TD Bank, with 200,000 square feet. One Vanderbilt will deliver critically-needed, state-of-the-art Class A office space and dramatically upgrade Grand Central's overburdened …
- November 2014 NYC Buildings purchased & For to purchase
- New York Buildings sold Two properties in Midtown East were just sold for $18 million. A five-building development site at 134-142 Bowery sold for $45.3 million.A Midtown East-based real estate investment firm bought 66 Pearl Street for $30.1 million.Emmes Asset Management is selling a Midtown South office building at 158 West 27th Street for a sizable profit. The 118,000-square-foot building is in contract for $82.5 million.New York University bought a 151,000-square-foot building in Noho for $157 million, with plans to convert it into a temporary space for athletic facilities.Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation bought a pair of adjacent retail buildings a block …
- May 2014 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
- With Manhattan retail rents skyrocketing retailers such as Rizzoli Bookstore and J&R; Music and Computer World have shuttered. Retail tenants are increasingly turning to hybrid models to be profitable. Despite being one of the wealthiest places in the nation and a shopping mecca for 50 million plus tourists, Manhattan still has more vacant retail space than anyone can count. This is caused by Landlord seeking higher rents than tenants can profitably operate. The two emerging centers for tech office tenants in the city are the Manhattan corridor spanning 14th Street through 42nd Street, and Downtown Brooklyn. Tech firms are looking …
- June 2010 New York New Developments
- New Developments New York University may enter the public approval process for its new Silver Towers site, the crown jewel of its wildly controversial 2031 expansion plan. The biggest hurdle for the school will be gaining approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which will have final say on whether NYU can build on the landmark Bleecker Street site. The proposed building will be a "slender pinwheel tower," and is rumored to be planned for a 40-story structure. New York University dropped in on Community Board 3's zoning committee meeting and had little to say about how its 6 million-square-foot expansion …