{"id":302936,"date":"2026-07-22T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302936\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:53:31","slug":"new-york-city-investment-sales-exceeding-2025-pace-report-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302936\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Investment Sales Exceeding 2025 Pace: Report \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City investment sales dipped 10 percent over the second quarter of 2026, according to Avison Young<\/a>\u2019s latest property sales report. Under the hood, however, the city\u2019s commercial real estate market is barreling past its 2025 pace.<\/p>\n

Overall investment sales in New York City rose annually by 60 percent in the first half of 2026 as capital markets and office financing reopened, according to the report, with transaction counts and dollar volumes rising annually across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The report did not track Staten Island.<\/p>\n

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The geopolitical and economic upheaval that defined early 2026 did not go unfelt, however, as quarterly sales volume declined to $5.42 billion citywide from $5.68 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Above the quarterly noise was a market in a welcome recovery cycle. The city is on pace for $22.87 billion in annual sales in 2026, according to the report, approaching New York City\u2019s 10-year average of $23.4 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brandon Polakoff, a principal and head of New York City investment sales at Avison Young, compared the city\u2019s path of recovery since 2023 to the years following the Global Financial Crisis, which culminated in a 2015 peak for New York City investment sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cYear by year, we\u2019re working in the right direction,\u201d Polakoff said.<\/p>\n

Manhattan counted 94 sales in the second quarter of 2026, led in volume by Extell Development\u2019s $451 million move on<\/a> 405 Park Avenue in May. Other defining deals included Sovereign Partners\u2019 $378 million purchase<\/a> of 575 Fifth Avenue and the $280 million sale<\/a> of 250 West 57th Street to Namdar Realty Group.<\/p>\n

Development was Manhattan\u2019s breakout asset class for the second quarter, according to Polakoff, climbing year-over-year from three to 13 sales totaling $707 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found the demand for development to be astronomical in the past six to eight months,\u201d Polakoff said, pointing to the difficulty of acquiring existing multifamily and the comparative feasibility of stringing together 99-unit rentals <\/a>to avoid wage requirements under the state\u2019s two-year-old 485-x multifamily incentive.<\/p>\n

Manhattan\u2019s office market, not to be outdone, boasted the largest dollar volume for the quarter, at $1.51 billion. Compared to the first six months of 2025 \u2014 a year hampered by economic and election anxieties \u2014 office sales\u2019 total dollar volume is up 110 percent year-to-date, according to the report, at $3.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Multifamily sales in Manhattan are similarly outpacing 2025 by triple-digit percentages, yet sales remain bifurcated between the A-plus trophy assets and everything else. Dollar sales declined over the quarter by 18 percent to $880 million.<\/p>\n

The annual climbs and quarterly dips should be taken on balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat closed in the second quarter was negotiated in the first quarter,\u201d said James Nelson, a principal and head of U.S. investment sales at Avison Young.<\/p>\n

The first quarter of 2026 saw the 10-year Treasury climb and the start of U.S. military action against Iran, and Manhattan buyers responded in kind. Notably, Manhattan\u2019s private buyers, as a share of sales volume, rose 53 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there\u2019s uncertainty, you see a lot of the private buyers come in and take advantage of the market, transact,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cThe institutions might pause a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, foreign buyers in Manhattan made up just 9.7 percent of first-half sales volume in a 10-year low. The number of foreign sellers haven\u2019t spiked, however, indicating that these owners are in a wait-and-see period, rather than a full-on flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with a lot of the negative macro noise, from a micro standpoint, the fundamentals are incredibly strong,\u201d said Polakoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Emily Davis can be reached at edavis@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City investment sales dipped 10 percent over the second quarter of 2026, according to Avison Young\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10681,2664,114817,1286,9,24,55,54,56,34512],"class_list":["post-302936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brandon-polakoff","tag-investments-sales","tag-james-nelson-channel","tag-more","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-research-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}