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2025 Year in Review: Sean Silverbrook, BEB Capital
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? Our biggest 2025 milestone was launching BEB Credit Opportunity Fund II, a major validation of our performance and strategy as an active value-add bridge lender.
2025 Year in Review: Sebastien Coles, MdeAS Architects
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? This year saw MdeAS expanding into hospitality and retail with Michelin-starred chef Michael White’s new restaurant Santi at 520 Madison Ave.
Check out the New York Real Estate Journal's 2025 Year in Review Spotlight!
December 23, 2025
NYREJ’s Year in Review is Out Now!
Explore our Year in Review Spotlight, featuring exclusive Q&As with leading commercial real estate professionals. Gain insight into the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping New York's commercial real estate landscape.
2025 Year in Review: Tom Ortinau, GFP Real Estate
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? Blackstone’s purchase of 1345 Avenue of the Americas was a clear signal that institutional capital is regaining confidence in the New York office market.
2025 Year in Review: Stuart Saft, Holland & Knight LLP
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? Representing The Naftali Group in the development of Williamsburg Wharf on 3.75 acres of land with 525 ft. of waterfront on the East River containing five, 22-story residential buildings containing 850 residences, retail, amenities,
2025 Year in Review: Mark Fischer, Lane Office
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? About 12 months ago I posted on LinkedIn about our Falkbuilt operable walls. I was obviously hoping the right person(s) would see it and sure enough
2025 Year in Review: Morris Betesh, Arrow Real Estate Advisors
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? The $320 million financing we arranged for Bushburg’s conversion of 80 Pine St. exemplified the direction of New York CRE this year. Arrow was among the first to recognize office-to-residential conversions as a viable means of adding product to the supply-constrained multifamily sector,
2025 Year in Review: Rob Koonin, Polsinelli PC
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? The New York office market is back ... but only for Class A or “trophy” assets. Quality office buildings are seeing leasing volume well above historic averages with strong demand from major corporate tenants.
2025 Year in Review: Peter Bafitis, AIA, RKTB Architects
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? We have lots to be proud of, including the expansion of P.S. 87 and a men’s shelter nearing completion – both in the Bronx — but we’ll always think of 2025 as the year RKTB co-founder Carmi Bee stepped back from leadership,
2025 Year in Review: Lindsay Ornstein, OPEN Impact Real Estate
December 23, 2025
>What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? This year’s market was defined by renewed competition for high-quality space. A great example was our Plaza District search for a financial-services client, where we saw bidding wars in multiple buildings
2025 Year in Review: R. Davis Powell, King & Spalding
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? In 2025, King & Spalding represented Cortland Partners in acquiring a majority of Elme Communities’ real estate assets.
2025 Year in Review: Lee Block, RTL
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? One moment that stood out for me this year was helping bring Laliko, a pioneering Georgian restaurant, to open in the West Village.
2025 Year in Review: Brian Sahn, Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? My standout transaction in 2025 was the closing of a refinance bridge loan for a newly built 250+ unit multifamily project located in Florida.
2025 Year in Review: Joel Richardson, P.E., H2M architects + engineers
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? We’re providing the architecture and engineering for Concern for Independent Living’s adaptive reuse of religious school buildings in Brentwood, NY, into 175 units of supportive residential housing. It’s a privilege to be able to support underserved communities through our work
2025 Year in Review: Charlie Avolio, Shawmut Design and Construction
December 23, 2025
>What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? The clearest indicator of the New York market’s direction is the emergence of large, high-conviction bets on prime assets and housing-oriented redevelopment even as the economy is subdued and unpredictable. This shows up in new flagship office trades,
2025 Year in Review: Collado Engineering: a year of steady progress, growing expertise and continue...
December 23, 2025
White Plains, NY As 2025 comes to a close, Collado Engineering has taken the opportunity to reflect on a year marked by steady progress, growing expertise and continued collaboration with clients and partners across the region.
2025 Year in Review: Zach Bernstein and Tal Golomb, Fried Frank
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? The City of Yes for Housing Opportunity was passed at the end of 2024 to address NYC’s housing crisis, and throughout 2025 we saw key zoning initiatives come to fruition, paving the way for more housing development. The city council approved the Midtown South mixed-use plan, which changes
New York’s real estate bottom line 2026: Why luxury rentals and condominiums will lead the next c...
December 23, 2025
As New York City’s real estate market moves toward 2026, one truth has become unavoidable: this is no longer a market driven by broad-based appreciation or speculative growth. It is a market defined by selectivity, capital discipline, and a widening gap between assets that work and those that do not.
2025 Year in Review: Hal Fetner, Fetner Properties
December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? The closing of 240 Willoughby was an epic transaction for Fetner Properties. This was an extremely complicated tri-party transaction for the purchase of a partially completed 500-unit residential building that took close to 10 months to complete.
2025 Year in Review: Ámbar Margarida, Spacesmith
December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? Opening the new U.S. Embassy in Mexico City was an extraordinary milestone. The project began in 2012 as a collaboration between Spacesmith, Davis Brody Bond, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects,