Rental concessions aren’t preventing prices from slipping. According to Douglas Elliman’s report, the median monthly rental price for apartments in Manhattan dropped 1.5 percent year-over-year in February to $3,330. The vacancy rate, however did drop a bit, from 2.44 percent in February 2017 to 2.29 percent in February 2018. Meanwhile, the percentage of new rental deals involving concessions remains high at 47.6 percent — up from February 2017, when the percentage was 26.4.

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While investors pulled away from the trouble retail condo sector in 2017, a recent spate of retail condo sales in early 2018 may signal a new optimism. The Real Deal reviewed Real Capital Analytics data and found that investors bought or put into contract a total of $276 million worth of retail condo properties in the first eight weeks of 2018. What’s impressive is that this figure is already more than half of 2017’s total of $523 million. ...

The tech giant recently purchased the entire Chelsea Market building for about $2.4 billion in what would be the second priciest deal for a single building in New York City history, according to The Real Deal. With the purchase of the 3.8-acre, full-block office and retail building with a famous food hall that draws approximately 6 million visitors per year, Google is dominating the Chelsea and Meatpacking District from West 15th Street on 8th Avenue to the waterfront ...

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Florida East Coast Industries just closed on two parcels of public land in downtown Miami, locking in another component to its massive MiamiCentral mixed-use development.

The deal was approved by city commissioners in 2015, but terms were not worked out till now. Once complete, the MiamiCentral will rise on an 11-acre site in downtown Miami that will bring myriad apartments, shops and offices to the city. The station will integrate the Miami-Dade County Metrorail and ...

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The 62-story tower, rising at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, features Hadid designed amenity spaces and furnishings. New renderings of the curvy exoskeleton-shaped condo include a look at Hadid’s double-height aquatic center with an indoor pool and a luxury “Lifestyle Center and Spa.” Prices at the 83-unit condominium range from $5.5 million to more than $20 million.

Manhattan’s luxury market recorded 29 contracts at $4 million and above in the third week of February– that was the fourth week in a row contract activity topped 20 deals, The Real Deal reports.

The No. 1 spot went to a 12-room co-op apartment across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 993 Fifth Avenue with an asking price of $17 million. That’s a nearly 32 percent reduction off the original ask of $24.9 million when the ...