News: Brokerage

HKS Capital Partners secures $55 million in financing

HKS Capital Partners secured $55 million in bank finance for the following office/residential/mixed-use buildings: * A $25 million mortgage for Dalan Management's $36 million purchase of two Midtown South office properties, as part of a 1031 exchange. The four-year loan from the Bank of the Ozarks, features a four-year loan with a rate of 375 over Libor with a floor of 4%. HKS principals Jerry Swartz and Ayush Kapahi worked on the deal. Dalan Management bought the 12-story buildings at 10 East 33rd St. and 12 East 33rd St., between Madison and Fifth Aves. from Adee Associates, according to Daniel Wrublin, a co-founder and principal at Dalan Management, after selling three Washington Ave. Heights buildings for $16 million. * $22.34 million in acquisition and construction financing from Doral Bank on a 10-story apartment building at 34 West 17th St. that will be delivered vacant and turned into full floor residential condominiums. The borrower was real estate investment firm, Atkins & Breskin, which purchased the building for $20 million. The loan features a rate of 150 BP's over prime with a floor of 5.75% and a term of 24 months (interest only). Swartz and Kapahi negotiated this transaction. * $7.65 million in acquisition financing from Bank United on a six-story multifamily property on Mott St. in Chinatown with 20 residential units and one commercial unit, and a five-story multifamily property with 11 residential units and one commercial unit. The loan features a rate of 3.5% and a term of three years. Kapahi negotiated this transaction.
READ ON THE GO
DIGITAL EDITIONS
Subscribe
Columns and Thought Leadership
Lasting effects of eminent domain on commercial development - by Sebastian Jablonski

Lasting effects of eminent domain on commercial development - by Sebastian Jablonski

The state has the authority to seize all or part of privately owned commercial real estate for public use by the power of eminent domain. Although the state is constitutionally required to provide just compensation to the property owner, it frequently fails to account
AI comes to public relations, but be cautious, experts say - by Harry Zlokower

AI comes to public relations, but be cautious, experts say - by Harry Zlokower

Last month Bisnow scheduled the New York AI & Technology cocktail event on commercial real estate, moderated by Tal Kerret, president, Silverstein Properties, and including tech officers from Rudin Management, Silverstein Properties, structural engineering company Thornton Tomasetti and the founder of Overlay Capital Build,
Behind the post: Why reels, stories, and shorts work for CRE (and how to use them) - by Kimberly Zar Bloorian

Behind the post: Why reels, stories, and shorts work for CRE (and how to use them) - by Kimberly Zar Bloorian

Let’s be real: if you’re still only posting photos of properties, you’re missing out. Reels, Stories, and Shorts are where attention lives, and in commercial real estate, attention is currency.
Strategic pause - by Shallini Mehra and Chirag Doshi

Strategic pause - by Shallini Mehra and Chirag Doshi

Many investors are in a period of strategic pause as New York City’s mayoral race approaches. A major inflection point came with the Democratic primary victory of Zohran Mamdani, a staunch tenant advocate, with a progressive housing platform which supports rent freezes for rent