New York, NY Fried Frank is counsel to a private fund controlled by Brookfield Asset Management in its $1.2 billion sale of a portfolio of five residential assets consisting of 2,800 rental apartment units, to a joint venture between L + M Development Partners and Invesco Real Estate.
The Fried Frank team included real estate partners Joshua Mermelstein and Nathaniel Lifschitz; tax partners Christopher Roman and Richard Wolfe; and real estate associates Julianne Befeler, Nicholas Mayer, Thomas Bethany, Joshua Katz, and Krystal Chapin.
New York tri-state multifamily investors are increasingly reallocating capital to less-regulated markets across the U.S. as rent control and legislative risk erode returns at home. With over 60% of New York City’s rental housing stock classified as rent-stabilized, the traditional value-add model — buying under-performing buildings,