Gencom Makes NYC Debut with Deal for Thompson Central Park Hotel

Gencom Makes NYC Debut with Deal for Thompson Central Park Hotel

Miami-based investment firm Gencom acquired the 42-story Thompson Central Park, a 587-key hotel centrally situated on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row. At a purchase price reportedly north of $300 million, the deal marks Gencom’s debut... Read more »

Coastal counties at greatest risk in housing market downturn – HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER, The Real Deal (Subscription)

The vulnerability of county-level housing markets varies across the country, but it’s areas on both coasts that may be at the greatest risk if a downturn occurs. Source link Read more »
Blackstone Gains 8,300 Units in California With AIR Deal

Blackstone Gains 8,300 Units in California With AIR Deal

Blackstone is gaining 8,300 apartments across California with its $10 billion acquisition of AIR Communities. On Monday, Blackstone announced it was buying AIR Communities, also known as Apartment Income REIT, for $10... Read more »
TRC Recapitalizes La Canada Flintridge Retail Deal

TRC Recapitalizes La Canada Flintridge Retail Deal

CBRE secured $36.4 million in post-acquisition financing for TRC to recapitalize the purchase of a 115,939-square-foot Target-anchored center in La Canada Flintridge. Shaun Moothart, Bruce Francis, Bob Ybarra, Doug Birrell, Nick Santangelo and Jim Korinek with CBRE’s Capital Markets... Read more »
The Closing: Lew Horne – The Real Deal

The Closing: Lew Horne – The Real Deal

Lew Horne thought he was going to run a pet store business. Then, he thought he’d sell computerized systems to wholesale grocers. Neither panned out.  Instead, Horne runs CBRE’s operations across Los... Read more »
Barbara Corcoran On The 8M NAR Settlement: It’s ‘Not A Big Deal’

Barbara Corcoran On The $418M NAR Settlement: It’s ‘Not A Big Deal’

Corcoran told Yahoo! Finance she doesn’t believe the effects of the settlement will be as earth-shattering as many make them out to be, but that “the confusion it’s causing is amazing.” Join... Read more »
Westwood Unit Sells in LA’s Priciest Condo Deal of the Year

Westwood Unit Sells in LA’s Priciest Condo Deal of the Year

A full-floor unit at Wilshire House has traded in the priciest condo deal in Los Angeles County so far this year, The Real Deal has learned.  The property, Unit 20C at the... Read more »
Deal or no deal? What opting in to NAR’s settlement could mean for some of the nation’s largest brokerages

Deal or no deal? What opting in to NAR’s settlement could mean for some of the nation’s largest brokerages

“NAR threw 81 of their largest firms under the bus,” Steve Murray, the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting, said. “Those firms represent roughly 500,000 of their members, or a third of their membership,... Read more »
Malibu House Sells for .5M in Priciest LA Deal This Year

Malibu House Sells for $38.5M in Priciest LA Deal This Year

Investors Mark Cirlin and Man Li-Yeh have parted with a Malibu estate for $38.45 million, marking the priciest home sale in Los Angeles County so far this year.  The property, at 33740... Read more »
City Market of LA Gets New Deal for Fashion District Project

City Market of LA Gets New Deal for Fashion District Project

City Market of Los Angeles has moved forward with approved plans to turn three blocks in Downtown L.A.’s Fashion District into an urban-retail village with nearly 1,000 homes. The Downtown-based former wholesale... Read more »