Big Real Estate

Parking Garage for Sale! Act Now!

If New Yorkers know anything it’s that finding a parking spot is crucial. And so, when a commercial broker offers the master leases for two retail units on Manhattan’s bustling Third Avenue, it almost goes without saying that a parking garage will be in the offering.

Indeed, brokers at Eastern Consolidated this week announced plans Read More

Money Matters

Wannabe Luxe Development Site On Sale Near U.N.

Loans on a stalled development site are being sold to investors with an appetite for four slices of the United Nations submarket.

The current owners had considered moving air rights from the two 45th Street properties to the two on 44th Street, offering nearly 75,000 square feet of potential development in a prime area for hotels Read More

Trade Secrets! ‘Wealthy Family’ Buys Devonshire Retail Space

The retail space on the ground floor of the Devonshire House, a prewar Greenwich Village beauty at 28 East 10th Street, has changed hands for $10.35 million. The buyer, according to broker Eric Anton, is “a very wealthy family here in New York.”

Eastern Consolidated represented the seller and, according to a release, “procured” the buyer, Read More

Eastern Consolidated Tapped to Sell Parkoff’s 7 West 51st Street

Eastern Consolidated has been picked to sell 7 West 51st Street at Rockefeller Center for $36 million. The 43,744-square-foot building includes a 12,400-square-foot retail component and 15,000 square feet of air rights.

Banco Popular, the former owner of the building, sold it to current owner, the Long Island-based Parkoff Organization, in 2008. Seven West 51st Street was Read More

Wired

The Commercial Observer:

Last year, Eastern expanded its loan sales group. How has the response been?

Mr. Hauspurg: We actually started in 2005, which was a bit early, but we could see what was coming. The values were getting out of hand and we knew at some point the banks were going Read More