PropertyShark.com Adds Hampton’s Residential for Sale Listings. Over 2000 Million-Dollar Homes Currently on the Market

East Hampton, NY, March 24, 2009 – PropertyShark.com today officially announced the addition of a new residential for sale section dedicated to Hampton’s homes for sale. The continually updated Hampton’s listings are free to post and view.

To browse Hampton’s homes for sale, go to: www.propertyshark.com/hamptons_homes_for_sale

“This is the first step in creating a comprehensive marketplace for buyers to find homes for sale in the Hamptons, which will in turn bring a huge increase in home buyer traffic to both the broker’s websites and more importantly, their open houses,” stated Bill Staniford, CEO of PropertyShark.com. “The addition will also leverage the hundreds of thousands of New York City investors and home buyers who currently use PropertyShark and have historically been buyers of Hampton’s properties.”

From the PropertyShark.com website, people can now browse thousands of homes for sale in the Hamptons, filtering for desirable Hampton’s property criteria such as “water view”, “waterfront”, and “south of the highway”. The buyers and brokers can also use the existing PropertyShark Reports and Comparables to learn the sales history of the property and estimate the current market value based on sales of similar properties in the area.

The entire North Fork and South Fork will be covered, including homes for sale in villages such as East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Westhampton, Amagansett, and Montauk. This follows the recent launch of PropertyShark’s New York City For Sale section.

With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property tax, sophisticated maps, listings, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com/mason

New York, NY, March 09, 2009 – PropertyShark.com, a leading provider of commercial and residential real estate data and listings, has announced its choice of Maponics to provide the underlying neighborhood boundary data for advanced neighborhood level searching and mapping.

With this enhancement, PropertyShark.com users will now be able to search and map by neighborhood in over 20 major US markets to find detailed property reports, foreclosure listings, residential properties for sale, commercial properties for sale or lease, recent sales comparables, and analyze maps.

For each property, rare neighborhood-level community information will also now be available, the type that is typically only known to longtime residents. This is in addition to hundreds of property specific details (drawn from public and proprietary sources) already at users’ fingertips. Examples include: price history, ownership information, zoning, permits and violations filed on the property, liens, tax assessments, previous owners, title documents, toxic sites nearby and much more.

“Incorporating Maponics into PropertyShark allows our users to browse for sale listings, foreclosures, sales comparables, and property reports within specific and discrete neighborhoods” explains Matthew Haines, Chairman and Founder of PropertyShark.com. “We chose Maponics neighborhood data to power our real estate search in part because the coverage areas of the Maponics neighborhood boundaries do not overlap, like they do in other datasets we looked at. This means that each property belongs to one neighborhood only, which eliminates duplicate content, makes for better search results and map display, and decreases the data integration time.”

“PropertyShark.com is offering tremendous value to its users,” said Darrin Clement, CEO and President of Maponics. “With the addition of Maponics Neighborhood BoundariesTM, their users will now be able to drill down from large scale, major area neighborhoods, to the tiniest smaller sub-neighborhoods and find details they never believed would be publicly available.”

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Maponics specializes in location-based data and information for businesses, including neighborhood, ZIP Code and carrier route boundaries. Local search, real estate, mobile, social media and marketing firms rely on Maponics to power their interactive search, mapping, and ad targeting platforms, including PropertyShark.com, HelloMetro, Citysearch, D&B, infoUSA, Dominion Enterprises (eNeighborhoods and Homes.com), Pitney Bowes/MapInfo, Zvents, Smarter Agent, Roost, CitySquares and many others. The Maponics Online Store, powered by Maponics data, is the only place USPS.com refers to for postal maps. The Company is located in Norwich, Vermont. Additional information can be found at www.maponics.com

With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, title search, sophisticated maps, homes for sale, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York, NY, October 17, 2008 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate data website, today announced the official launch of PropertyShark University and its website, www.propertysharkuniversity.com

The school, accredited by the state of New York, offers a full curriculum of broker continuing education classes. The classes are also intended for real estate investors.

“These are not the painfully boring, clockwatching type continuing education classes that brokers had to attend in the past” stated Bill Staniford, CEO PropertyShark.com. “These classes are taught by industry experts on cutting edge topics such as Short Sales, Multifamily Property Investment, and Creative Financing, and brokers are actually going to learn something that will help them get ahead of the pack and close more deals.”

The real estate classes will be taught in the New York City metro area and cover the following topics:

Over 500 real estate professionals and investors in New York have already attended a live class through PropertyShark University this year.

“Sitting in those classes was like having access to some secret knowledge that everyone else guards tenaciously. All I wanted was information clearly spelled out, and they gave it to me” stated Vincent P. Cuccia, Real Estate Agent for Prudential Douglas Elliman.

In New York, a Real Estate Salesperson must complete 22½ hours of Department of State approved continuing education classes in real estate every two years in order to renew their license.

“While these real estate classes were initially created for broker CE credit, we have found enormous interest from all types of real estate professionals and investors” said Bill. “We saw a hole in the real estate education market for informative and interesting classes where people can actually learn something valuable. Our distressed properties classes sell out almost every time.”

To view the list of upcoming New York real estate classes and the full curriculum, go to: www.propertysharkuniversity.com

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With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property values and comparable sales, sophisticated maps, apartments for sale, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, April 23th, 2008 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate data website, today announces the release of the web-based ListBuilder service for New York City real estate professionals and investors.

Accessible from the PropertyShark.com website, ListBuilder lets users query the PropertyShark.com database for owners of properties matching very specific criteria, and then review the prospect list online, download contact information, and create mailing labels.

“Throughout our product testing period, savvy investors, brokers, lenders and developers used ListBuilder to find truly incredible opportunities by creating lists targeted to very specific owners and properties” stated Jens Kristensen, ListBuilder Product Manager at PropertyShark.com.

Lists can be created using any of the following criteria:

• Location: Borough, Community District, Neighborhood, Zip Code, Block, or limited to owners within a specific building.
• Building Class: Residential, Commercial, Mixed Use, Industrial, Vacant Lots.
• Property Characteristics: Number of Units, Square Feet, Stories, Lot Size.

“PropertyShark lists have given me access to a significant trove of data that is easy to access, purchase, and use for mailings”, said Todd Schiff, Associate Broker, Prudential Douglas Elliman. “I’ve used it to successfully reach owners and tenants of buildings and have received calls from my mailings. It is an invaluable resource I return to again and again.”

In addition, a series of QuickLists have been created for various real estate professionals, including lists based on pre-selected criteria useful to real estate investors, commercial brokers, residential realtors, interior designers, and real estate developers.

Some examples of QuickLists include:

• All owners of condos purchased for over $1 million in the last 3 months,
• Owners of office buildings between 10,000 and 100,000 of office square feet,
• All vacant lots in Manhattan,
• All buildings with recently filed permits for complex construction projects.

“The List service is a fantastic way to target your audience and narrow down search criteria to your exact real estate needs” said Gregory Struck, Director of Business Development at CORE Group Marketing. “In today’s extremely fast paced world of real estate, staying organized is crucial and PropertyShark provides the tools CORE Group Marketing needs to stay on top of the market.”

For investors and real estate professionals with even more customized data needs, PropertyShark.com also created the Data Services team. Whether it’s a custom property list using search criteria not available in ListBuilder or a consulting project to research & analyze real estate data, PropertyShark.com data specialists can provide exactly what clients need.

“We have vast amounts of data on PropertyShark.com, most of which can be extracted in interesting combinations”, said Bryan Owens, Director of Data Services at PropertyShark.com. “Some of the more creative requests have included custom lists based on buildings with particular zoning, air rights available, toxic sites nearby, or in areas with economic & development incentives.”

For more information on ListBuilder or Data Services, go to www.propertyshark.com/mason/DataServices

PR Contact: Brian Scully at 718.715.1758.

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With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property tax, sophisticated maps, retail spaces, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, November 15th, 2007 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate data site, today released fire threat maps for Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma. The maps show historical wildfire frequency, the location of past fires, and the potential future fire threat for every property in each county.

“The devastating fires in Southern California last month remind us that–whether we are real estate investors, homebuyers, or business owners–assessing fire threat is an essential step in the process of evaluating real property” stated Christopher Thorne, Maps Product Manager at PropertyShark.com. “Using California state-wide published data, we have developed these San Francisco Bay Area fire threat maps to help people make better real estate decisions through awareness of the proximity of past fires, and the likelihood of future fires within their neighborhood.”

Hotspots by County:

Alameda

Most areas of Alameda County show a High to Extreme fire threat, particularly northwest of Newark and on the outskirts of Livermore.

Contra Costa

The majority of Contra Costa has a Very High fire threat, with the area surrounding Martinez having Extreme Threat. Fire Threat Map

We also see the history of wildfires around Martinez in 1980, 1985, 2003, and 2004. Wildfire Map

Marin

The areas around Hamilton Air Force Base up through northwest Novato show an Extreme fire threat. Fire Threat Map

Napa

Napa has a High to Extreme fire threat throughout, with a corridor of Extreme threat on both sides of Highway 29 from the City of Napa through Calistoga. Fire Threat Map

Wildfires have hit Napa frequently, particularly North of Lake Berryessa. Wild Fire Map

San Francisco

In San Francisco, Golden Gate Park and the Presidio have the highest areas of fire threat, with a somewhat surprising Extreme Threat level in the blocks surrounding Lombard and Van Ness. Fire Theat Map

San Mateo

San Mateo County predominantly has a High fire threat with a noticeable sprinkle of Extreme threat in areas between Portola Valley and Woodside as well as surrounding Half Moon Bay. Fire Threat Map

Santa Clara

Most of Santa Clara ranges from Very High to Extreme fire threat, with trouble spots from south of Gilroy all the way up north of Morgan Hill. Fire Threat Map

PropertyShark.com also provides fire maps for Santa Cruz and Solano County.

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With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property records, sophisticated maps, listings, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, May 22, 2007 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate data site, today announced the addition of a ‘For Lease’ listings area on the website. The ‘For Lease’ area of PropertyShark.com launched in the five boroughs of New York City and will be added for other major cities in the coming months. Posting a listing will be complimentary for commercial brokers and owners interested in leasing retail or office space.

“PropertyShark.com has become a thriving information exchange for all things real estate, and our users in the commercial broker segment have long asked for a For Lease area of the site, so this is a very natural addition to PropertyShark.com” said Matthew Haines, Founder of PropertyShark.com.

To browse current listings in the new ‘For Lease’ section go to: For Lease

For business owners, demographic maps showing median income, median age, population age, and rezoning initiatives will display alongside the listings to help with leasing decisions. Users will also be able to use the Notes and Favorite Property Lists features to track and organize potential office and retail spaces.

“We have great respect for the businesses that CoStar and LoopNet have built, and we don’t intend to try to compete in their space for major lease listings in skyscrapers, but we do see a huge opportunity to aggregate the small and mid-sized commercial leases available in the market”, said Ryan Slack, chief executive officer of PropertyShark.com.

To provide more insight into the leasing market, PropertyShark.com has simultaneously launched a map displaying retail leasing rates along commercial corridors in Brooklyn, based on data provided by leading realty services firm Massey Knakal. To view the map, go to: Map

“The data shown in our Brooklyn retail corridor map is compiled from data provided by our territory experts”, said Timothy D. King, Senior Partner of Massey Knakal Realty Services of Brooklyn. “We have compiled this data over the past several years and have noticed a steady increase in rents in the established retail corridors as well as the emergence of new, vibrant neighborhood districts.”

Beyond the ‘For Lease’ section, PropertyShark.com provides real state professionals and savvy investors with comprehensive residential and commercial property reports for every property in each county, a comparable sales tool, foreclosure and pre-foreclosure listings, maps, building photos and For Sale listings. Markets include Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Seattle, Boston, Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC, and all of New York State and New Jersey.

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With over 25 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property values and comparable sales, sophisticated maps, homes for sale, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, retail spaces, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York, Jan. 9, 2007 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate data site, announces ‘Singles’ maps that highlight pockets of rich, single men and women in major cities throughout the United States, including New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Boston, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Seattle.

The ‘mash-up maps’ display neighborhoods that are color-coded based on the average income and availability of single men and women in an area. So for example, women looking for high percentages of single men with incomes over $100,000 might try the Upper West Side of Manhattan or the area between Pacific Palisades and Malibu in Los Angeles. To find wealthy single women, the Madison Park area of Seattle and Miami Beach look promising.

“While the rich singles maps are obviously helpful to identify a dating pool of successful and available singles by neighborhood, these maps collectively are also very useful to anyone looking to develop new real estate projects, open a store, hire employees, or do business in neighborhoods with substantial buying power,” said Matthew Haines, founder of PropertyShark.com.

“Using PropertyShark.com, a single woman could quickly locate a neighborhood with an abundance of wealthy single men, one which also has low crime, good schools, and appreciating home prices, making her next move an informed decision rather than a random one” said Ryan Slack, chief executive officer, PropertyShark.com. “The map was initially created as a ‘gift’ for our publicist, Kelly Kreth, a single woman living in Manhattan. Once she saw it she realized its huge potential to help other singles throughout the country and we rolled them out nationwide.”

“While the idea started out almost as a joke, when my client, PropertyShark.com, presented it to me, I realized its value for other singles. I actually did meet a man from an area highlighted on the map as having an abundance of rich, single men, and while the relationship did not work out, the map helped me find an area of my neighborhood that would have suitable men to date,” says Kelly Kreth, president, Kreth Communications, publicist to PropertyShark.com.

For real estate professionals and investors, PropertyShark.com offers other maps with zoning, foreclosures, price per square foot, air rights, nearby toxic sites, construction permits filed, and more. The site also provides extensive reports for every property, including building details, ownership information, police reports, school district info, recent sales prices, photos, property values and comparable sales, as well as ‘for sale’ and foreclosure listings.

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With over 20 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property values and comparable sales, sophisticated maps, apartments for sale, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, November 16, 2006 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate investment data site, announces the addition of maps and foreclosure listings (trustee sales) to round out its offering in San Francisco. Now, in addition to the comparable sales tool and the detailed property reports for almost every residential and commercial property in SF, PropertyShark.com has maps for Land Use, Median Population Age, Population Density, Median Household Income, and Property Outlines. Additionally, current foreclosure listings have been added for the San Francisco area.

View any of the San Francisco Maps

To browse the Foreclosures in San Francisco go to: San Francisco Foreclosure Listings

“The addition of maps and foreclosure listings help to round out our San Francisco offering and provide real state professionals, investors, and savvy homebuyers with new tools and data to evaluate neighborhoods and investment opportunities.” said Ryan Slack, chief executive officer, PropertyShark.com.

In addition to the new maps, PropertyShark.com offers detailed property reports for almost every residential and commercial building in San Francisco and a comparable sales tool to help users determine market value of a SF property based on a wide variety of assorted criteria. Detailed property reports include building details (size, year built, construction type, etc.), property ownership, last sale price with buyer and seller’s names, demographic info on the neighborhood, tax assessment data, zoning, automated valuation models, and recent permits filed. The Comparables tool allows users to enter in sales price range, sales date range, building type, building size, year built, construction type, and zip code, in order to find the market value of a specific property.

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With over 20 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property records, sophisticated maps, listings, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, August 3, 2006 – PropertyShark.com, the premier real estate investment data site, announces that by end of day today it will have incorporated New York City co-op data into its award winning website.

For the first time ever, NYC co-op sales prices going back to January 2004 will now be made public on the easy to search PropertyShark.com website. Prior to the recent legislation making co-op sales data public information, brokers, agents, appraisers, investors, and most importantly, homebuyers, had no way to compare sale prices of co-ops and determine a co-op’s fair market value.

“No other site will be carrying this information immediately, and we have made the data accessible from the easy-to-use PropertyShark.com web interface. By end of day today we should have most of the data online, and going forward, we will automatically incorporate all available New York City co-op data into our site on a daily basis,” explains Ryan Slack, chief executive officer, PropertyShark.com.

In addition to co-op sales prices and ownership information, PropertyShark.com provides brokers and homebuyers with other critical data important when evaluating co-ops, including school district information, neighborhood police reports, building photos, interactive maps, number of units in the building, year built, and much more, with room count and square footage information coming soon. With a wealth of co-op information now available at their fingertips, brokers and agents could also use PropertyShark.com to canvass co-op owners to list and sell their units.

“Until now, the Manhattan residential market has been both the largest and yet the most opaque housing market in the country. This will radically change the way people evaluate the co-op market, bringing transparency to what was a veiled marketplace,” says Slack. “No longer will homebuyers and independent brokers have to rely on the top three brokerages for co-op comparables.”

To see listings of recent co-op sales by neighborhood, go to: New York City co-op comparable sales

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With over 20 million properties in twenty major markets, PropertyShark.com provides real estate professionals and investors with data and tools on all aspects of property, including building details, ownership information, recent sales prices, property tax, sophisticated maps, apartments for sale, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, mailing lists, photos, and more, available directly from the web. PropertyShark.com strives to level the playing field by offering independent real estate firms, investors, and savvy consumers the information transparency essential to evaluate real estate and make informed decisions. For more information go to: www.propertyshark.com

New York City, May 10, 2006 – PropertyShark.com, a data analytical tool for property search has announced today they now have made automated property data and interactive maps feeds available to top NYC-area real estate firms.

“We have enabled integration of our state-of-the-art interactive maps directly into the Halstead Property website,” says Ryan Slack, chief executive officer, PropertyShark.com.

“Now Halstead.com visitors can view detailed neighborhood maps with customized New York City property data. Our Property Shark.com partnership provides tools our customers want with the service they expect from Halstead Property,” explains Jim Cahill, executive vice president, Halstead Property.

“Further, PropertyShark.com created a web data service which enables brokers, software vendors, and service providers to pipe PropertyShark.com data automatically into their applications,” elaborates Slack. “RealPlus, Massey Knakal, and Sales Team Live are three prominent examples of the power of combining proprietary software with our data.”

“By integrating a link to PropertyShark.com into RealPlus, the 240+ firms that use RealPlus can now obtain high quality building information and reports directly from PropertyShark.com by simply clicking on an icon within our application. This powerful tool gives the brokers easy access to much needed information so they can better service their customers,” says Eric Gordon, managing director, RealPlus LLC.

“Massey Knakal has decided to integrate with PropertyShark.com to provide our professionals the most up-to-date sales data to augment our in-house proprietary database of property and owner information.” explains Timothy D. King, chief operating officer, Massey Knakal Realty Services.

“Data is king in this business – if you don’t have accurate, up-to-date information, it is very difficult to succeed,” says Ali Nazar, vice president of product management, Sales Team Live. “We work with only the best data providers around the country to ensure that our users, who employ sophisticated marketing and sales strategies using SalesTeamLive’s Real Estate Console, get the best returns on their marketing dollar. PropertyShark.com is hands down the best provider to work with in the New York metro area.”

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Halstead Property, LLC, is one of New York City’s most visible, largest, and fastest-growing residential real estate brokerage firms. Founded in 1984 and owned by Terra Holdings, Halstead’s services include Residential Sales, Property Management, Relocation and Development Marketing. Headquartered at 770 Lexington Avenue, the firm also has eight prime retail office locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Riverdale. Additional Halstead Property offices include prime locations in the second home market of Hudson Valley. Halstead Property was one of the first real estate brokerages to make buying and selling property more efficient through the aggressive use of technology and the first in New York to bring real estate sales out of Midtown office buildings and into prime boutique retail storefronts. The firm has more than 500 sales and rental agents throughout New York. In addition, through its property management division, Halstead Property manages over 7,000 residential units within 77 buildings.

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Massey Knakal Realty Services is a full service property sales company specializing in the sale of investment and user properties. It was founded in 1988 by Paul J. Massey, Jr. and Robert A. Knakal, two former Coldwell Banker Commercial executives. The firm has building coverage in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx/Northern Manhattan, Staten Island and both Westchester and Nassau Counties. Massey Knakal operates on a territory system, in which each professional is assigned a specific number of blocks in order to know all variables of their submarket including who’s buying, who’s selling, what sales prices have been, what factors are effecting value and how transactions are being structured. Although the majority of Massey Knakal sales are of properties under $20,000,000, the firm has sold properties as large as 850,000 square feet and for as much as $180,000,000.