Larry Getlen
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In Construction Lending, It’s a Good Time to Be the Right Borrower (opens the original)
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ew U.S. residential construction declined in August in one of the weakest monthly performances since the pandemic, with housing starts overall down 2.6 percent and multifamily starts plummeting nearly 22 percent, according to First American Financial Corporation data Housing completions, meanwhile, dropped nearly 12 percent, reaching what Bloomberg described as “the slowest pace since the end of 2018.” Concurrently, as of late August, commercial real estate debt funds held a record $56 billion i
Shorenstein to Buy Leased SoHo Office Property From Tishman Speyer (opens the original)
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Tishman Speyer is selling the 12-story, 155,000-square-foot office building at 148 Lafayette Street in SoHo, at the corner of Lafayette and Howard streets, to Shorenstein Properties for around $135 million. The Real Deal was first to report the sale. The deal was repped by Newmark‘s Adam Spies, Doug Harmon, Adam Doneger, Marcella Fasulo, Avery Silverstein and Joshua King. Shorenstein outbid several institutional bidders, including private equity funds, for the building, according to a source wit
Fortress' Eli Edwards and David Hammerman Don't Balk at Small Deals (opens the original)
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The key to successful investing is often the ability to differentiate between commonly regarded wisdom and reality. Eli Edwards, head of U.S. real estate equity for Fortress Investment Group, recalled just such a personal dissonance guiding him around three years ago regarding the much-discussed collapse of San Francisco’s reputation as a safe place to park investment dollars. “We have to figure out themes that have short-term headwinds but also long-term tailwinds. That’s the hardest part of in
For Manhattan Class B Office, the Days of Optional Amenities Are Past (opens the original)
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After several years of Class A Manhattan office product benefiting from ever-increasing levels of demand, the heat in the sector is beginning to shift downward. Companies in search of well-kept space at less-than-trophy rents are seeking more Class B office space than before while Class A is experiencing a slight downshift in desirability — and a new class of amenities might be making the difference. According to CoStar, while office demand in New York is “white hot” overall, Class A demand, in
Retail Location Intelligence Grows in Sophistication and Usage (opens the original)
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In the late 1960s, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke posited a now-famous law of the universe: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” As the rapid advancement of technology, especially given the ongoing progress of artificial intelligence, often makes this seem truer by the day, its implications in commercial real estate are often of a type that would have seemed like pure voodoo to CRE professionals when Clarke put forth this statement. A restaurant chain
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