Spotlights
2024 Year in Review: Patrick Ramirez, Greek Real Estate Partners
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? While investors grew more bullish on “subject-to-entitlement” deal structures in 2024, the dominant trend was a continuation of 2023s focus on acquiring portfolio deals with significant mark-to-market potential.
2024 Year in Review: Neil Weisbard, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? NYC is doing everything in its power to address the housing crisis, especially in regard to the creation of affordable dwelling units. The city just approved a major overhaul of the Zoning Resolution providing floor area bonuses for developments
2024 Year in Review: Nancy Erardi, NYCAN Builders
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? In 2024 we completed our largest project to date on Long Island. This was not an easy project but by far one of the most interesting projects we have worked on. My team is the reason for our continued success.
2024 Year in Review: Katie Devine, Rockabill Consulting, LLC
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? At the end of the year, my team will lead the closing for Columbia Street Commons I, which will bring 371 units of much-needed 100% affordable and supportive housing to Red Hook, Brooklyn.
2024 Year in Review: Thomas Ashforth, RM Friedland
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? I would say the biggest accomplishment of the year is my move to RM Friedland (RMF) and having most of my clients move with me. Their trust in me and my business partner spoke volumes,
2024 Year in Review: Scott Levine, King & Spalding
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? We represented the seller/lender in two separate transactions where our clients sold nearly vacant office buildings in Phoenix, Arizona, and then provided seller financing to the buyers and concurrently put one loan on a repo line.
2024 Year in Review: Lena Dau-Ping Fan, Kostow Greenwood Architects
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? Completing The Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater signifying the first physical expansion in The Apollo’s 90-year history. The 25,000 s/f destination features space for a variety of productions and programs as well as resources for rehearsals, workshops, meetings, public conversations, education programs, office space, exhibitions, and more.
2024 Year in Review: Dov Hertz, DH Property Holdings
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? Investor appetite for strategically located new industrial logistics facilities continued in 2024 and will accelerate in 2025 and future years. A clear example was DH Property Holdings sale of a 283,000 s/f logistics facility
2024 Year in Review: Shaun Pappas, Starr Associates
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? 2024 marked the revival of retail in New York City. We completed several large-scale retail leases and restaurant/member club leases and openings this year. Our client VCR Group opened members club Flyfish Club on East Houston this year spanning three levels
2024 Year in Review: Seth Niedermayer, Kramer Levin
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? This year, one of the more notable deals in which I was involved was representing Hudson Bay Capital in its partnership with RXR Realty to close a $320 million recapitalization of 620 Ave. of the Americas