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Amira Yunis. (Courtesy Katie Khouri)

Amira Yunis Leaves Newmark for CBRE

Amira Yunis, a top retail leasing broker in Manhattan, is leaving Newmark Knight Frank for CBRE several sources say.

Ms. Yunis brokered a number of notable transactions with major retailers during her tenure at Newmark, where she rose to the rank of executive vice president within the company’s retail leasing arm. Read More

Awards

And the Golden Apple Goes To …

“Everybody’s bitchin’ because there’s been too much competition.” 

And so Newmark Knight Frank’s Jimmy Kuhn kicked off the star panel at this year’s Capital Markets in Real Estate Global Markets Recovery with an unintential real estate rap.

Sadly, not all real estate gurus can rhyme, but everyone’s got some talent. We bring you the juicy Read More

When It's Not Your Money

The Mogul, Lost and Found: Developer Shaya Boymelgreen in the City of Second Acts

The breakneck rise and fall of New York developer Shaya Boymelgreen unfolds like a Gilded Age novel of social ascendance: young man immigrates to ethnic neighborhood in big city; accidentally takes part in Crown Heights riot of historic importance; strikes up fortuitous friendship with Uzbek diamond billionaire who agrees to bankroll his projects; Read More

Your Asset Distressed? See These Experts!

In the paralyzed commercial real estate market, where panicked brokers wring their hands as deals founder, a number of nimble New York pros are looking to claim their share of the emerging submarket that surrounds distressed property assets.

It’s not a new business, mind you. It’s more like an old one that reemerges when Read More