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Brooklyn tenants accuse landlord of 421a rent fraud

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By Sabina Mollot A tenant advocacy group that’s been systematically investigating landlords who’ve been accused of overcharging renters and deregulating apartments has recently accused a Brooklyn owner, Renaissance Realty, of the same on behalf of its tenants. The tenants of 527 Lincoln Place, a property in the 421a tax abatement...
Heller sells rental Union Sq. building
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Heller sells rental Union Sq. building

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By Sabina Mollot Slate Property Group and Alcion Ventures have bought a 133-unit rental building in Union Square from Heller Realty for $106.5 million. Completed in the 1960s, the 13-story 60 East 12th Street at the southeast corner of Broadway is mostly market rate with an average rent of $3,884...
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Hudson Yards Marriott hotel gets $199M in refinancing

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An affiliate of Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies (MRECS) provided a $199 million loan to refinance the Courtyard by Marriott Hudson Yards hotel, recently built by companies affiliated with hotelier David Marx. The loan will be used to take out a construction loan and other previous financing ahead of the...
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Bill Blass Group buys East Midtown building

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By Sabina Mollot Fashion footwear company Bill Blass Group has purchased an East Midtown office building at 3 East 44th Street, a 14,175 s/f office property. The $15,300,000 sale (or $1,079 per s/f) was arranged by Cushman & Wakefield’s Will Conrad and Rob Shapiro who represented the sellers, Bernstein Real Estate, and NYC Associates LLC, in this transaction. Jin...
Old Kanes diner in Flushing sold after 50 years for $13.6M
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Old Kanes diner in Flushing sold after 50 years for $13.6M

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TEK Realty Advisors LLC (“TEKRA”) is thrilled to announce the sale of a development site located at 44-15 College Point Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. The property sold for $13,600,000 or $478 per buildable square foot, well above market average. Situated on the northeast corner of College Point Boulevard and Pople...
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Lodi, NJ Home Depot building sells for $53M

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CBRE announced that it has arranged for the $53 million sale of a property containing a 132,003 s/f Home Depot located at 99 Route 17 North in Lodi, New Jersey. Jeffrey Dunne, David Gavin, Jeremy Neuer and Travis Langer of CBRE’s National Retail Partners (NRP) represented the owner in the...
Kasirer seeks a happy ending for battered industry
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Kasirer seeks a happy ending for battered industry

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By Linda O’Flanagan After a summer of “greedy landlord” headlines, protests about rents, proposed commission caps, structural voids and downzoning, New York City’s real estate industry has taken a beating the likes of which it’s never seen. Politicians are returning real estate money like it came from a cartel and...
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Nobody move! Renters stay put as owners sell in bulk

Sabina Mollot
Brookfield is joining the big-game sell-off of New Yorkʼs housing stock. Along with partner Urban American, the company will offload five former Mitchell-Lama buildings in Harlem and Roosevelt Island to L+M Development Partners and Invesco Real Estate in a $1.2 billion deal. In its second quarter report, Brookfield, a publicly...