REGO PARK, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $13 million sale of a 9,000-square-foot retail building located along Queens Boulevard in Rego Park. The building houses four tenants: Chic’s Place, Paris Baguette, Dunkin’ Donuts, Rouge Nail. Michael Kook of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and the buyer, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — PGIM Real Estate Finance has provided a $200 million loan for the refinancing of 315 Hudson Street in Manhattan. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan will be used to restructure existing debt and to fund the remaining costs of a capital improvements program that will upgrade the lobby, elevators, signage and other mechanical systems. The borrower was Jack Resnick & Sons. Standing 10 stories tall and spanning 484,000 square feet, 315 Hudson is located in the Hudson Square area of Lower Manhattan. PGIM Real Estate Finance, the commercial mortgage business of PGIM, is an international full-service, commercial and multifamily mortgage finance business.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL’s Capital Markets team has arranged a $75 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of 450-460 Park Avenue South, a 183,019-square-foot office building in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan. Aaron Appel, Kellogg Gaines, Jackson Sastri and Matt Fagella of JLL placed the debt through Wells Fargo on behalf of the borrower, Moinian Group, which has owned the property for more than three decades. Coworking giant WeWork recently inked a deal to occupy space at the building, which was originally built in 1912 and was 95 percent leased at the time of the loan closing.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $9.6 million sale of a 54-unit multifamily building in The Bronx. The five-story property, which was originally built in 1925, is located at 2474 Valentine Ave. in the Fordham Heights neighborhood. The buyer and seller were not disclosed. The deal closed at a capitalization rate of 5.5 percent. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood handled the transaction on behalf of both parties.
NEW YORK CITY — A public-private partnership between The Community Preservation Corp. (CPC), Project FIND, the Joint Ownership Entity New York City (JOE NYC) and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has received $6 million in financing for the renovation of Hargrave House. The 113-unit property is an affordable seniors housing community that is located at 111 W. 71st St. Project FIND, a nonprofit that supports low-income seniors, and JOE NYC, a nonprofit that supports affordable housing developers in the city, are the primary sponsors behind the project. The renovation work will upgrade the building’s elevators, energy systems, lobby and façade. Hargrave House was originally built in 1913 as a Renaissance hotel until it was converted into a residential use in the mid-1900s. An additional $3.5 million renovation plan was executed in 2001.
NEW YORK CITY — Colliers International’s project management team has completed a 12,000-square-foot, build-to-suit office project at One Penn Plaza in Manhattan for Dimension Data, a South Africa-based IT firm. Designed by Gensler, the office space features adjustable desks, shared employee workspaces, expansive views and access to an abundance of natural light. Dimension Data will occupy the 18th floor of the 57-story Penn Plaza, which spans approximately 2.7 million square feet. Vornado Realty Trust owns the building, which was originally built in 1972 and renovated in 1995.
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — Silber Investment Properties, a brokerage firm specializing in retail real estate, has arranged the $8 million sale of a 13,000-square-foot building in the Long Island City of Plainview. Situated on 1.3 acres, the asset was triple net-leased to CVS at the time of sale. Adam Silber of Silber Investment Properties represented the seller, Pandem Enterprises, in the transaction. Silber also procured the buyer, JRI 28CI LLC, a New York City-based real estate investment group.
NEW YORK CITY — The Feil Organization, a New York City-based commercial owner-operator, has negotiated a pair of retail leases totaling 2,654 square feet at 488 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Beginning this fall, France-based Mephisto Shoes will occupy 1,864 square feet and Asian restaurant Mighty Bowl will occupy 800 square feet. Other tenants at the property include Indochino, Bonobos Guideshops and UNTUCKit. 488 Madison Avenue, which was built in 1948 and renovated in 2016, is 23 stories tall and spans 477,000 square feet.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has provided a $50 million first mortgage loan for the development of a mixed-use project in Brooklyn that will include 41 residential units and 12,625 square feet of ground-floor retail space. An office building and additional development site located in the borough’s Broadway Triangle neighborhood partially collateralize the loan. According to local media sources, the borrowers were Abraham Brach and Parkview Management, which will use the proceeds to retire existing debt and fund construction of the mixed-use property. Construction is expected to be complete by the fourth quarter.
As the second-largest city economy in the world, New York City continually retains its reputation as one of the most desirable locations for long-term real estate capital appreciation, both nationally and globally. In turn, increasing rent growth and decreasing vacancies have characterized the New York City multifamily market as the influx of supply in 2018 quickly gets absorbed. In the next 24 months, the city will see a dramatic reduction in the new supply of rentals, with current projections for 2019 to 2020 estimating 12,000 units to come on line. This figure represents a substantial decrease from the 20,680 units that were delivered in 2018. Of those 20,680 units, Queens and Brooklyn accounted for more than 50 percent of the new supply. Despite these deliveries, effective rent grew in 2018 by 2.9 percent in Manhattan, 2.2 percent in Brooklyn and 3 percent in Queens. Total multifamily sales volume in Manhattan for 2018 was $6.8 billion, an 83 percent increase from 2017’s total transaction volume of $3.7 billion. With 181 total transactions, properties that traded for more than $50 million made up 65 percent of the volume in 2018 across 22 trades. Similarly, sales in Brooklyn hit a record volume of …