Land Use Committee Greenlights Midtown East Rezoning
Manhattan Skyline Gearing Up for a Major Makeover The iconic skyline of Midtown East is gearing up for a major makeover. Landmarks such as the Chrysler Building are at risk of being overshadowed by megatowers – and according to Justin Davidson, architecture critic for New York Magazine, the danger is now more real than ever….
NYC Rental Market Hottest as Construction Hits 20-Year High
New York City remains one of the hottest rental markets as apartment construction hits a new record high this year. Apartment construction has been unstoppable, with thousands of new buildings under development all over the country. Is it enough? Is it too much? What will the impact of this volume be on the market? New…
HFF Arranges $28M Refi for Brooklyn Mixed-Use Building
HFF has recently arranged a $28 million refinancing for the mixed-use building located at 110 4th Ave. in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill. The firm placed the 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan covering 75 percent of the property value with Jefferies LoanCore LLC, per PropertyShark data. A debt placement team led by HFF Managing Director Scott Aiese represented…
TriBeCa Still #1 Most Expensive NYC Neighborhood
Following a period of stabilization, the second quarter of 2017 brought a period of renewed price growth to some areas of New York City, particularly to its most expensive neighborhoods. Median sale prices trended upwards in most of the city’s 50 most expensive neighborhoods. Only 11 areas saw prices slide in Q2, a significant change from Q1,…
Top 50 Best-Selling NYC Buildings of All Time
New York is a city of condo buildings whose names resonate almost as strongly as those of top celebrities. As older, established condo buildings are now joined by new developments that are changing the city’s skyline and making headlines thanks to units that go for dizzying prices, we set out to find out which are the…
Top 10 Best-Selling NYC Buildings in Q1 2017
The performance of NYC’s residential market in the first quarter of 2017 was heavily impacted by closings at new condo developments which propelled median sale prices to record highs in many parts of the city. We thought we’d take a closer look at the most popular new NYC buildings in Q1. A recent analysis by PropertyShark…
Asian Investment Takes Up 15% of Top 50 Office Deals in 2016
Top destinations for office investment: New York City, Boston and Los Angeles Largest single-asset sale of the year: AXA Equitable Center in Manhattan trades for $1.9B Asian investment accounts for 15% of the year’s top 50 office deals Blackstone crowned most active office buyer of 2016 According to a new analysis released by our sister…
Brooklyn: Foreclosures Climb in the East and Home Price Gaps Deepen
Among headlines that crown Brooklyn as one of the most expensive real estate markets in the US and that announce record-breaking sales of luxury properties, PropertyShark’s 2016 foreclosure report revealed quite an intriguing trend: the number of new foreclosures in the borough has been steadily climbing for the past 5 years. We decided to investigate further and…
Top 10 Best-Selling Buildings in NYC 2016
2016 was a great year for some of New York’s largest developers looking to finally cash in on their investments, as several high-profile developments completed construction work and closed a large number of deals initiated in the past 3 years. We took a look at the residential market of 2016 and singled out the developments…
Debra Hoffman from Town Residential: Prices Are Starting to Level Off in the Sales Market
We’re happy to start off 2017 with a new interview in our series! This time, Debra Hoffman from Town Residential shares with us both her assessment of the year that has just ended and her predictions for 2017. Debra believes there’s a lack of inventory in the $1M to $3M sales market, and if priced…
Agent Interview with Diana Kosov: Find the Key Tools for Your Success
Building a real estate career can seem overwhelming, with so much to juggle. You balance a budget, navigate the contract process, research the market and market your business. All this while staying available and flexible to your clients and their needs. PropertyShark partner Leap EDU, premier real estate licensing and continuing education school, offers some insight. They sat…
10 Most Expensive Homes Sold in Brooklyn 2016
Brooklyn’s seemingly never-ending price hikes held course in 2016, particularly in the second half of the year, when the median sale price across all residential properties in the borough hit $650,000. Looking back, several homes in the borough were worth a whole lot of money last year, with some condos and townhouses in northwestern neighborhoods selling at prices one…
Real Estate Pros Say East New York and Bushwick Will Be the Hottest Neighborhoods in 2017
With the perspective of a new year in mind, PropertyShark surveyed its clients, NYC real estate professionals, to find out their market predictions for 2017. Some of the results might come as surprising so read on to find out more. Here are just some of the key findings: According to the pros surveyed, NYC’s most in-demand neighborhoods…
Down Payments in Manhattan Now $500K – Almost Double the Median Sale Price in the US
55% of Manhattanites bought their home all cash in 2016, compared to the national average of 33% The median down payment on a home purchase in Manhattan was $500K, a huge sum to consider when compared to the full price of the average home in the US – $301K  The median down payment for a luxury home…
Top 20 NYC Residential Lenders 2016
Wells Fargo issued the highest number of mortgages this year – 2,081 JP Morgan Chase issued luxury home mortgages for the sum of $414 million The lowest median down payment – 13% – was operated by Homebridge Financial Services In a place like New York, where home prices are sky-high and demand is never lacking, financial institutions get a…
Survey: 56% of NYC Real Estate Pros Say Value in Trump-Branded Buildings Will Not Increase
Will the value of units in Trump-branded buildings rise post-election? The results of a PropertyShark survey indicate that 56% of NYC real estate pros say “No”. President-elect Donald Trump started off as a real estate developer and became even more famous for licensing his name to residential buildings, hotels, casinos and golf courses. Unsurprisingly, the Trump brand…
NYC Multifamily Investments Slow Down in Q3, Manhattan and Brooklyn See Losses
The market for NYC multifamily properties took a hit last quarter, as investor trust seems to be dwindling. According to a recent report by Ariel Property Advisors, the number of buildings purchased between July and September was down 22% Y-o-Y, and 10% since the previous quarter! 284 buildings were sold in 178 transactions, for a…
How Many Billionaires Does It Take to Buy Manhattan?
We enjoy poring over the latest issue of Forbes’ World Billionaires List as much as the next person, watching the billions stack up every year, but have you ever realistically considered what that kind of money could actually mean? We just did. And being in the business we’re in, we decided to count the dollars…
Top 10 NYC Best-Selling Buildings Q3 2016
A sculptural tower in TriBeCa takes over the number one spot as NYC’s best-selling building last quarter. Although in our Q1 and mid-year Top 10 lists Carnegie Park in UES reigned supreme, with by far the highest number of recorded sales, in Q3 the newish development at 56 Leonard Street became the best-selling building in…
Real Estate Is at the Heart of the Second Harlem Renaissance
A second Harlem Renaissance is underway, this time driven by an influx of money and a middle class population eager to escape the hectic life and ridiculous housing prices in the rest of Manhattan. So we decided to take a look at what the neighborhood has to offer in terms of homes and single out…
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