NEW YORK CITY — Investment management firm Axonic Capital has arranged a $72 million senior loan for the refinancing of the leasehold interest of 430 Park Avenue, a 19-story office building in Midtown Manhattan. The floating-rate loan was funded through Axonic’s affiliated insurance business. The 295,000-square-foot building occupies a full city block between 55th and 56th streets and was 99 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group arranged the debt on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Oestreicher Properties, Midwood Investment & Development and Marx Realty. Ownership will use a portion of the proceeds to fund future tenant rollover and repositioning costs and renovate the lobby.
NEW YORK CITY AND TORONTO — A partnership between Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board has agreed to acquire LXP Industrial Trust (NYSE: LXP) in an all-cash transaction valued at $5.2 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. The price tag includes LXP’s net debt and preferred equity. In addition, the terms of the deal call for LXP shareholders to receive $61.20 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 12.3 percent over the REIT’s 30-day volume weighted average share price (VWAP) and a 19.8 percent premium over the company’s 90-day VWAP. Both figures are based on time frames that ended Friday, July 17. LXP has agreed to suspend payment of common share dividends until the earlier of the closing of the transaction or the termination of the definitive agreement. The agreement also includes a 40-day “go-shop” period that expires on August 28 at 11:59 p.m. EST, during which time LXP and its advisors may actively solicit and consider alternative acquisition proposals and engage in discussions with third parties. “LXP has assembled a high-quality industrial portfolio with modern logistics assets in attractive markets,” said Lowell Baron, CEO of …
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Global Holdings and MAG Partners will develop a 149-unit apartment building in Manhattan’s SoHo district. The new building at 122 Varick St. will include 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and 25 percent of the units will be designated as permanently affordable under New York City’s 485-x program. The joint venture is developing the building via a ground lease with Trinity Church, which was represented by Kevin Donner of Cushman & Wakefield in the negotiations. A construction timeline was not announced.
FARMINGDALE, HICKSVILLE AND OCEANSIDE, N.Y. — Northmarq has arranged $35 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio of five small-bay industrial properties totaling 275,891 square feet on Long Island. Three of the properties are located in Farmingdale, and the other two are located in Hicksville and Oceanside. The portfolio, which spans 13.9 acres and houses 40 suites, has maintained an average occupancy rate of 95 percent over the past five years. Ernest DesRochers and Charles Cotsalas of Northmarq arranged the seven-year loan through an undisclosed life insurance company. The borrower was also not disclosed.
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 250-room hotel in East Syracuse. Opened in 1977 and renovated in 2016, the DoubleTree Syracuse is located in the Carrier Circle area and comprises a central building that houses public spaces in addition to four-story and seven-story guestroom wings. Amenities include a tavern and bar, a business center, indoor pool, fitness center and approximately 17,000 square feet of meeting and event space. Andy Kern, Jerry Swon and David Altobello of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investors that requested anonymity, in the transaction. John Horowitz of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record.
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based Airbnb has purchased 281 Park Avenue South, an office building in Midtown Manhattan, for $81.5 million, according to reports from multiple news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Post. The landmarked, six-story building is known locally as Church Missions House. According to WSJ, which was first to report Airbnb as the buyer, the purchase comes “as the company continues to lobby local and state officials for loosening of the city’s strict restrictions on short-term rentals.” The Post reports that the 42,500-square-foot building will serve as “a dedicated hub for Airbnb’s New York workforce, which numbers more than 600 employees in the region.”
ISLAND PARK, N.Y. — San Francisco-based intermediary Gantry has arranged an $11.5 million loan for the refinancing of a 740-unit self-storage facility located in the Long Island township of Island Park. Public Storage operates the three-story, climate-controlled facility. Robert Slatt and Alex Poulos of Gantry arranged the nonrecourse loan, which was structured with a five-year term and a fixed interest rate, loan through an unspecified, correspondent life insurance company. The borrower was also not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — SPORTFIVE has signed an 18,038-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The German sports marketing firm will occupy a full floor at 477 Madison Avenue, a 24-story building. Peter Van Duyne and Alex Lachmund of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Arkady Smolyansky and Alex D’Amario of CBRE, along with internal agents A.J. Camhi, Paul Milunec and Rob Weller, represented the landlord, RXR.
By Jack Stone, managing director, Greysteel In the last week of June, two things happened in the American multifamily market that belong side by side: New York City froze rents, and the Dallas Fed confirmed that Texas is drowning in apartments. One of those scenarios involves a market correcting itself. The other is a market being told to stop. In New York City, the Rent Guidelines Board voted seven to one to freeze rents on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, including zero percent on one- and two-year leases, the first two-year freeze in the board’s history. That action impacts about a quarter of all housing inventory in the city and roughly 40 percent of its rental units. In Texas, markets have kept doing what they’ve been doing for two years: bleeding. Both states are wrestling with the same underlying problem. Rents got too high for many people to afford. The difference is what each one decided to do about it, and that difference is the whole story. Texas is in pain, and the pain is honest. The Dallas Fed put numbers to it this spring. A pandemic-era construction boom, cheap money and aggressive bank lending dumped a historic wave of …
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based investment firm Spear Street Capital has purchased 76 Eighth Avenue, a 10-story office and retail building in Lower Manhattan, for $50.5 million. The 35,620-square-foot building was completed in 2022 and was fully leased at the time of sale, with Wells Fargo occupying the retail space. Andrew Scandalios, David Giancola, Vickram Jambu, Drew Isaacson and Jennifer Zelko of JLL represented the seller, G4 Capital Partners, in the transaction. Aaron Niedermayer, Peter Rotchford and Christopher Pratt, also with JLL, arranged $27.7 million in acquisition financing for the deal through DekaBank.
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