NEW YORK CITY — Rudin has extended an existing $425 million CMBS loan backed by 32 Avenue of the Americas, a 27-story office tower in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. The New York City-based owner-operator has also announced plans for a $100 million capital improvement program at the 1.2 million-square-foot Art Deco property, which also features a prominent data center/carrier hotel component. Rudin will introduce a prebuilt program of new work environments at 32 Avenue of the Americas that will range in size from 5,000 to 10,000 square feet. The company will also upgrade the building’s lobby and renovate its street-level retail space. Lastly, Rudin will create a new leasing/marketing center spanning the entire 25th floor, which also features two outdoor terraces that offer views of the Manhattan skyline. The tower’s mortgage will now mature in November 2029 should Rudin exercise both of its one-year renewal options in 2027 and 2028. Iron Hound Management Co. advised Rudin, which acquired the property in 1999 from AT&T, on the loan modification. The direct lender was not named. Rudin requested that its loan be transferred to an unnamed special servicer two months ahead of its November maturity in order to begin discussions on the loan modification. …
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HOUSTON — Busycon Properties has begun the multimillion-dollar repositioning of 910 Louisiana, a 50-story, 1.2 million-square-foot office tower in downtown Houston. Capital improvements will cover various parts of the building’s exterior and will introduce new amenities, including a 9,000-square-foot conference center, fitness and wellness center and a 5,000-square-foot tenant lounge. Hines manages 910 Louisiana, and Partners Real Estate is the leasing agent. Gallant Commercial has been named as the general contractor for the project, which was designed by architecture firm HOK.
Colliers Arranges 125,500 SF Office Headquarters Lease Renewal in Duluth, Georgia for AGCO
by Abby Cox
DULUTH, GA. — Colliers has arranged a 125,500-square-foot office headquarters lease renewal in Duluth for AGCO Corp., a company that designs, manufactures and distributes agricultural machinery and precision technology. The two-story corporate campus is located at 4205 River Green Parkway in metro Atlanta’s Gwinnett County and acts as the company’s global headquarters. Deming Fish, Emily Richardson and Mark Maggard of Colliers represented the landlord, Orion Properties, in the lease negotiations.
HOUSTON — Norton Rose Fulbright has signed a 21,000-square-foot office lease expansion in downtown Houston. The global law firm relocated its corporate headquarters to the 28-story namesake building at 1550 Lamar St. last summer, occupying floors 20 through 26. The expansion encompasses an additional full floor and brings Norton Rose Fulbright’s total footprint at the building to 139,000 square feet and the building’s occupancy rate to 70 percent. Skanska owns the property.
NEW YORK CITY — Summit Properties has purchased 444 Madison Avenue, a 500,000-square-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan. The 42-story building occupies an entire blockfront between East 49th and 50th streets and offers amenities such as a tenant lounge, café, conference center and two landscaped terraces. Tenants include law firm Schwartz, Sladkus, Reich, Greenberg, Atlas, as well as The Doris Duke Foundation, EOS Hospitality and financial services firm Capital Dynamics. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Summit Properties has tapped JLL as the new leasing agent.
NEW YORK CITY — Stark Office Suites will open a 17,300-square-foot flexible workspace facility in Manhattan’s Plaza District. The space spans the 13th and 14th floors of 717 Fifth Avenue, a building that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar capital improvement program. Craig Lemle and Roi Shleifer of Savills represented Stark in the lease negotiations. CBRE represented the undisclosed landlord.
SouthState Bank Moves into 87,000 SF Regional Office Headquarters in Atlanta’s Buckhead District
by Abby Cox
ATLANTA — Winter Haven, Fla.-based SouthState Bank has moved into its new 87,000-square-foot regional office headquarters at Prominence Tower, a 19-story office building located at 3475 Piedmont Road NE in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. The tenant’s new offices span three-and-a-half floors and will house roughly 175 local employees. Prominence will also feature a new flagship retail branch on the building’s ground floor and building-top signage that will elevate visibility of the SouthState Bank brand. Josh Hirsh and Patrick Baughman of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Aileen Almassy and Andy Sumlin of Partners Real Estate represented the landlord, New York Life Real Estate Investors. Prominence Tower is a mixed-use development that recently underwent an $8 million renovation to both modernize the building and to install various tenant amenities, such as a conference facility, lobby coffee bar, fitness center, bike storage room and a seven-level attached parking garage.
COLUMBUS, OHIO — CBRE has arranged the sale of One Easton Oval and Two Easton Oval, two Class A office buildings totaling 252,500 square feet in Columbus. IMC Management LLC purchased the assets for $17.5 million. CBRE’s Steve Timmel, Will Roberts, Collin Wheeler and Aaron Duncan represented the undisclosed seller. Wheeler and Duncan will handle marketing and leasing efforts. Originally built in 1995 and 1998, the buildings are located within the Easton Oval Office development, a master-planned business park adjacent to Easton Town Center. The properties were 60 percent occupied at the time of sale.
MBA: Commercial, Multifamily Loan Originations Increased 36 Percent in Third Quarter from 2024
by John Nelson
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The volume for commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations closed in the third quarter of 2025 was 36 percent higher compared to a year earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations report. The third-quarter production also represents an 18 percent increase from the previous quarter. The MBA reports that loan originations have now risen for five consecutive quarters on both a quarterly and annual basis. Among property types, there was an 181 percent year-over-year increase in the dollar volume of loans for office properties, 100 percent increase for retail properties, 66 percent increase for hotels, 27 percent increase for multifamily properties and a 5 percent increase for industrial properties. Originations for healthcare properties decreased 43 percent compared to the third quarter of 2024. “While some sectors, such as healthcare and industrial, saw slower activity, overall volumes reflected improving sentiment as property values stabilized and loans reaching maturity were refinanced,” says Reggie Booker, MBA’s associate vice president of commercial/multifamily research. Among capital sources, there was a 52 percent year-over-year increase in loans by depositories lenders (i.e. banks), 40 percent increase in loans by government sponsored enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) …
BOSTON — Newmark has brokered the $125 million sale of 399 Boylston Street, a 245,084-square-foot office building in Boston’s Back Bay district. The 13-story building has had an average occupancy rate of 85 percent over the past five years and was 90 percent leased at the time of sale. In addition, the property recently underwent a capital improvements program that delivered a new lobby and entryway, as well as improvements to tenant suites. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher, Matthew Pullen, James Tribble, Samantha Hallowell and William Sleeper of Newmark represented the seller, an entity doing business as BRE Boylston Owner LLC, in the transaction. David Douvadjian Sr., Timothy O’Donnell, David Douvadjian Jr., Bobby Alvarado and Conor Reenstierna, also with Newmark, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, San Francisco-based DivcoWest. CIM Group provided a $93 million acquisition loan for the deal.