Category : Debt & Equity

TRANSACTIONS: Hirshmark arranges $8.75M bridge loan, Eastern Union cuts $6M mortgage
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TRANSACTIONS: Hirshmark arranges $8.75M bridge loan, Eastern Union cuts $6M mortgage

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Hirshmark Capital, through an affiliate entity, announced the funding of a $8,750,000 bridge loan secured by a multifamily building in Queens. The property is a 70,000 s/f building with 80 units. The borrower needed capital to refinance an existing bank loan. This is yet another example of our aggressive appetite...
Experts worry trade war could dampen momentum
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Experts worry trade war could dampen momentum

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A group of economists and real estate executives debated the U.S. and Global Outlook: Tax Cuts, Trade Wars and Rising Interest Rates during a symposium hosted by Atlantic Environmental Solutions Inc. Participating speakers included economist Julia Coronado, Executive in Residence at Rutgers Business School, Morris A. Davis, Chair of Real...
Madison Capital refinance Times Square retail with $85M loan
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Madison Capital refinance Times Square retail with $85M loan

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Madison Capital recently refinanced 1657 Broadway in Times Square District with an $85 million, ten-year, interest only loan from Aareal Capital Corporation. The loan came as the landlord executed two ten-year, corporate leases with the international fast-food franchise, McDonald’s Corporation and global coffee company, Starbucks Corporation. The McDonald’s lease encompasses...
Extell lands $530M Brooklyn Point finance deal
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Extell lands $530M Brooklyn Point finance deal

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Extell Development Company has closed on $530 million in financing for Brooklyn Point, the firm’s first development in Brooklyn and currently the tallest residential tower under construction in the borough. The 720-foot-tall skyscraper will be the first and only for-sale development at City Point, Brooklyn’s largest food, shopping and entertainment...
White Plains apartments land $31M refi
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White Plains apartments land $31M refi

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The New York office for Avison Young announced that the firm arranged a $31,500,000 refinancing package for The Metro, a 124-unit luxury residential building at 34 S Lexington Avenue, in White Plains. David Krasnoff, Senior Director and Ryan Flannery, Analyst, for Avison Young’s New York Capital Markets Group, arranged the...
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Money migrating to wallflower neighborhoods

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Demand for new and improved apartments is driving millions of dollars in investment to Ridgewood, Queens. In the past six months alone, a team from Eastern Union Funding, the New York City-based commercial mortgage brokerage firm, has funneled $22 million to projects aimed at improving the town’s housing stock to...
Op-Ed: Buy-sell agreements need regular upkeep
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Op-Ed: Buy-sell agreements need regular upkeep

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By Marc Newman, associate managing partner, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP Construction company owners are more than familiar with the concept of maintenance. Equipment needs regular upkeep, homes and buildings require contant upkeep. But you know what else needs regular maintenance? Buy-sell agreements, assuming you have one. Most any company...
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TRANSACTIONS: GCP cuts $13.3M loan in Washington Heights

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Meridian Capital announced the following transactions: Two new mortgages in the amount of $15,400,000 on two 117-unit multifamily properties located on Walton Avenue and East Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx, NY. The loans feature rates of 3.875% and five-year terms. Avi Weinstock and Chaim Tessler negotiated these transactions. A new...
Uber drives $24M mall refi
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Uber drives $24M mall refi

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Uber Capital Group has sourced a $24.05 million debt refinancing of the acquisition loan for the purchase of the Logan Valley Mall. The two-story, 785,000 s/f property is located at 5580 Goods Lane in Altoona, the largest city of Blair County, Pennsylvania. Led by president and founder Joel J. Gorjian,...