The Class A

• 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 …
  
  
• March 2023 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Office: Net absorption was down over the same period, ending the year at negative 2.8 million square feet, nearly 23% below the year-earlier figure. The Manhattan office space improved marginally over the year to just below 17%, while average asking rent rose slightly to $75.41 per square foot. Midtown’s Plaza District was 621,000 square feet. Times Square area had a negative absorption of 484,000 square feet. Penn Plaza/Garment District submarket with net absorption of negative 1.3 million square feet. The Financial District has more than 25 %. U.N. Plaza was the tightest office submarket with an availability rate of 5.2%, …
  
  
• July 2016: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Harry Macklowe and Qatari investment bank QInvest closed on a deal to buy 432 Park Avenue's retail space for $411.1 million. CIM Group is developing the 1,396-foot condo tower in partnership with Macklowe the seller. The cube will include 6,600 square feet of retail space and will be connected to 20,000 square feet of retail space in the tower itself through a 30,000-square-foot underground concourse. Global Holdings is in contract to buy 1250 Broadway, an office tower owned by Jamestown and Murray Hill Properties, for $565 million. 1250 Broadway is a 39-story, 721,000-square-foot tower. The contract …
  
  
• January 2016 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Retail:Retail rents have surged in Times Square, Fifth Avenue and Soho and have exaggerated the strength of the overall retail market. Retail rents on Fifth Avenue in the 50's are as much as $5,500 per square foot for 3,000-square-foot space at 730 Fifth Avenue which is 50 times higher than some spaces a few blocks away. Building Sales There was an astonishing $70 billion in property sales slated for completion by the end of this year, 2015. The $70 billion figure would represent a 12.5 increase from the city's previous record dollar volume in 2007, including a 2.6 billion acquisition …
  
  
• October 2015: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Jerry Gottesman, the chair of Edison Properties, just closed on the $43.1 million purchase of 45-47 West 27th Street in NoMad.Kamber Management closed on its $365 million purchase of Tower 45 from SL Green Realty. The sale price values the class-A, 460,000-square-foot office tower, located at 120 West 45th Street, at $830 per square foot. SL Green Realty agreed to sell two retail development sites, at 570 Fifth Avenue and 574 Fifth Avenue in Midtown, getting $125.4 million. SL Green bought the two sites from Extell Development in 2013 for a total of $78.7 million. Walter …
  
  
• April 2013 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• About two million square feet of space at the World Financial Center is expected come to market, due to lease rollovers by Nomura and Deloitte, along with other tenants. 50 Midtown Manhattan buildings have at least 100,000 square feet of contiguous availability. The average size of these Midtown blocks is just under 310,000 square feet, Hudson Yards Number 1 (has 1 million square feet, 1221 Avenue of the Americas has 780,000 square feet available. these buildings have about 15.5 million square feet available. Four of the 50 blocks are subleases, and 46 are direct by landlord. 40 of the 50 …
  
  
• July 2011 New York New Developments
• New Developments Governor Andrew Cuomo, signed a statewide property tax cap legislation, caps property tax increases at 2 percent, or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. Only a 60 percent vote in local communities override Cuomo's legislation. "We are beginning a new era in which New York will no longer be the tax capital of the nation," Cuomo said Community activists opposing the Rudin family's proposed takeover of the St. Vincent's Hospital campus in Greenwich Village dropped their court appeal without ever appearing before a judge.New York led a second consecutive month of U.S. housing price gains. Nationwide home …
  
  
• April 2010 New York New Developments
• New Developments The number of small- to mid-size medical and bio-pharmacy companies in the city has quadrupled to 120 from 2002, due to the city's recruitment and the accessibility of academic centers in the area. The Upper East Side girls' prep school has cancelled its expansion into the nearby apartment building. The Brearley School, at 610 East 83rd Street, had been angling to buy half the building at 85 East End Avenue, for use as additional teaching space but has fallen through. Extended Stay Hotels may accept a $905 million investment offer from Starwood Capital Group and associated investors in …
  
  
• October 2009 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• There is some stability in the office market, but it will likely be temporary. The Class A office vacancy rate fell 0.2 points in August to 11.8 percent, while average asking rents rose 19 cents to $64.36 per square foot. The amount of direct and sublet availabilities, fell by about 100,000 square feet to 58.8 million square feet between July and August. In Manhattan, for all building classes, the vacancy rate remained unchanged at 13.2 percent, with average asking rents falling 24 cents to $51.71. The month's uptick in rents and decline in vacancy rates in some classes of office …
  
  
• September 2009 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Manhattan's office rents are declining more sharply than those in other U.S. markets, though it's probably due to a soaring multi-year run-up. Average Manhattan asking rents were $60.23 per square foot, down from $71.59 a year ago, or an almost 16 percent plummet. Midtown leasing velocity beat its five-year average for the first time in 18 months while the availability rate of office space improved slightly for only the second time since late 2007. There was 1.58 million square feet leased in Midtown in July,up from 1 million in June, besting its 60-month average of 1.32 million square feet. The …
  
  
• March 2009 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Weak leasing in Manhattan's submarkets continues to trigger comparisons with velocity rates not seen since the early 2000's. The Penn Station Midtown district in January, had only one 10,000 square feet rental, and only 15,000 square feet was leased in the Plaza District. The vacancy rate for Manhattan Class A properties rose in January to 10.2 percent, cracking through the 10 percent ceiling for the first time since November 2004, The overall vacancy rate in the borough was 11.3 percent, up from 10.4 percent the month before, and average asking rents dropped by $1.03 to $59.30. In Midtown, the Class …