Brooklyn, NY Berko & Associates has closed on the sale of two connected four-story, loft office buildings located at 201-209 46th St. on the corner of 2nd Ave. in the Sunset Park neighborhood.
The property sold for $15.5 million, at $290 per s/f above grade, a record for the area, suggesting a still-healthy appetite within the borough’s investment sales market.
Agustin Peña, a director at Berko, and sales associate Lenny Borshch represented both the buyer and the seller, who plans on repositioning the building into a boutique hotel.
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,