NEW YORK CITY — StubHub has subleased 100,000 square feet of office space at 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. The live event ticket marketplace operator, which signed a 44,000-square-foot office lease at 3 World Trade Center for its new headquarters in 2023, will take immediate occupancy of one floor and occupancy of two other floors at a later date. Scott Bogetti, Kirill Azovtsev, Michael Bertini, Brad Wolk and Will Joumas of Savills represented Stubhub in the sublease negotiations. Sheena Gohil of Colliers represented the undisclosed sublessor. Silverstein Properties owns the building.
For more than seven months in 2024, the commercial real estate investment market remained on a sluggish path. High interest rates continued to not only challenge many asset owners who needed refinancing, but also buyers and sellers looking to make deals. For instance, some $174.7 billion in property investment sales during the first half of the year was 7 percent below a year earlier, according to MSCI Real Assets. In such uncertain times, it’s not unusual for the commercial real estate market to experience bouts of bifurcation. Typically, those are marked by trends such as rising demand for higher quality offices during economic slumps when tenants can fetch discounted rents. Early in the recovery phase, it’s not unusual for investment to flow into tech-oriented metros at the expense of other cities. The Federal Reserve’s aggressive hike of the federal funds rate has created another category of bifurcation, especially as it relates to floating-rate bridge debt and how lenders are managing their loan portfolios. That is, the difference between the performance of assets depending on when owners financed the properties, says Jeff Salladin, a managing director with Dallas-based private debt fund Revere Capital. “It’s a question of vintage,” he explains. “Loans …
HOUSTON — Locally based investment firm Interra Capital Group has acquired the 600,000-square-foot historic Esperson complex in downtown Houston. Comprising two structures that are known as the Niels and Mellie Esperson Buildings, the complex is home to a mix of commercial users. The buildings were originally constructed in 1927 and 1941 to pay homage to real estate and oil magnate Niels Esperson and reflect the importance of those industries in the growth of the local economy during that time. Cameron Management manages the property, which Interra acquired by foreclosure through a note purchased from MetLife Investment Management earlier this year. Details on Interra’s plan to revitalize the property were not disclosed.
BOSTON — Locally based investment and management firm Capital Properties has received a $19 million loan for the refinancing of The S.S. Pierce Building, a 72,790-square-foot office and retail building located in the Brookline area of Boston. Originally constructed in 1898 for grocer S.S. Pierce, the building currently features street-level retail space and three levels of office space. Brookline Bank is a retail tenant, and the office component includes users in the financial services and behavioral health fields, among others. Patrick Boyle, Kevin Phelan and Rose Liu of Colliers arranged the fixed-rate loan through an undisclosed balance sheet lender on behalf of Capital Properties.
CENTREVILLE, VA. — Finmarc Management Inc. has purchased Trinity Centre, a four-building office portfolio in Centreville, for $39.4 million. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a joint venture between Spear Street Capital LLC and Partners Group, in the transaction. Bethesda, Md.-based Finmarc was self-represented. The nearly 500,000-square-foot portfolio is located roughly 26 miles west of Washington, D.C., and comprises two 152,000-square-foot buildings and two 93,000-square-foot buildings. Trinity Centre was approximately 71 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Parsons Corp., CARFAX, Aerovironment, Microautomation, Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association, Systematic and TriVir.
NEW YORK CITY — Hazen & Sawyer has inked a 44,000-square-foot office lease extension at 498 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan’s Times Square area. The engineering firm will continue to house its headquarters across the entire 11th floor of the 960,000-square-foot building through 2035. Curtis Dean of CD Commercial Real Estate Services represented Hazen & Sawyer, which has been a tenant at the building since 1999, in the lease negotiations. Matt Coudert and Andrew Conrad internally represented the landlord, George Comfort & Sons.
CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Gantry has arranged a $21.4 million construction takeout loan for a two-building creative office project in Culver City, just west of Los Angeles. Located at 3520-3524 and 3512-3516 Schaefer St., the 30,000-square-foot Class A buildings feature 18-foot ceiling, open floor plans with modern interiors, and landscaped exteriors with gathering spaces. Tony Kaufmann and Andrew Ferguson of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investment and development firm based in West Los Angeles. One of Gantry’s correspondent insurance company lenders provided the loan, which features a fixed rate with a three-year initial term and 30-year amortization.
NEW YORK CITY — PubMatic Inc., a software provider for the digital publishing and advertising industry, has signed a 60,000-square-foot office lease at 498 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan’s Times Square area. The company already subleases the entire 18th floor of the 960,000-square-foot building and will expand to the entire 19th floor early next year under the terms of the new deal. Greg Taubin of Savills represented PubMatic in the lease negotiations. Matt Coudert and Andrew Conrad internally represented the landlord, George Comfort & Sons.
COSTA MESA AND CHULA VISTA, CALIF. — JLL has secured $35.8 million in financing in two separate transactions for Turner Healthcare Facilities Fund, launched by Santa Monica-based Turner Impact Capital in 2017. John Chun and Matt DiCesare of JLL Capital Markets arranged the financing in both transactions. The JLL team arranged a three-year, $6.7 million loan through a regional bank for 1650 Adams Ave., a 12,436-square-foot medical property in Costa Mesa, and a seven-year, $29.1 million loan through a national healthcare lender for 480 4th Ave., a 64,231-square-foot medical building in Chula Vista.
AMARILLO, TEXAS — Coldwell Banker Commercial First Equity has negotiated a 51,848-square-foot office lease in Amarillo. The 237,204-square-foot building at 701 S. Taylor St. is located in the downtown area. Rachel Shreffler of Coldwell Banker represented the landlord, an entity doing business as 1908 Properties LLC, in the lease negotiations. The name and representative of the tenant were not disclosed, but the space can support more than 300 employees.