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Bed Bath & Beyond Building on the Block; Could Fetch $500 M., Sources Say

Hot on the heels of RXR Realty’s purchase of the Starrett-Lehigh Building for $900 million and the sale of 111 Eighth Avenue to Google for $1.8 billion, Bed Bath & Beyond’s building is on the block.

A partnership of Joseph Chetrit and Yair Levy, spearheaded by Charles Dayan from Bonjour Capital, bought the building for $289.8 million in 2005, according to city records. But with the trendy Chelsea office market enjoying a boom, driven in no small part by the tech bubble, the building could sell for around $500 million, according to some sources. Read More

From the Finance File

The Sea Change in Real Estate Psychology

Scott Singer, our regular contributor on real estate financing, on the end of a years-long rollercoaster.

Does anyone know a good analyst? After a three-year evolution in which the real estate transaction market went from manic to fearful to panic-stricken to catatonic to cautious to tentative, it has now arrived at fully operational.