In this roundtable discussion, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his Partners Victor Sozio, Michael A. Tortorici and Sean R. Kelly unpack the new housing policy included in the New York State FY 2025 Budget. Overall, the Ariel team sees the new initiatives as positive, especially for housing creation, but challeng…

Manhattan saw $11.1 billion in investment property sales in 2023, a 45% drop from 2022, and 280 transactions, a 33% year-over-year decline, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Manhattan 2023 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report. In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Founding Part…

Brooklyn finished 2023 with investment sales totaling $5.15 billion, a 46% decline from the record-breaking 2022, which saw dollar volume top $9.5 billion, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Brooklyn 2023 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report. Transactions also fell 30% to 839 compared to 1,206 the year before. In this podcast, Shimon Sh…

In 2023, the Bronx investment sales market saw $1.82 billion trade across 216 transactions, down 22% and 29% respectively, compared to 2022, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Bronx 2023 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report. In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Jason M. Gold, S…

At Ariel Property Advisors’ latest Coffee & Cap Rates event on February 7, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, moderated a panel of industry experts who shared their perspectives on the commercial real estate industry with an emphasis on the multifamily market: Margaret B. Grossman, Managing Partner & President - T30 Ca…

At Ariel Property Advisors' latest Coffee & Cap Rates event, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, presented an overview of New York City's investment sales market in 2023 as well as key findings from the firm's recent end-of-year reports. To see his presentation and download Ariel's research reports, please see https://a…

Ariel Property Advisors’ Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director, Capital Markets, join Shimon Shkury, President and Founder, for this discussion on how high interest rates, regulations and bank failures contributed to the lackluster performance in the New York City multifamily market in 2023. According to Ariel Property A…

Multifamily sales in New York City totaled $1.55 billion in Q3 2023, a 56% decline in dollar volume from Q2 2023, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Q3 2023 Multifamily Quarter in Review. Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Ariel Founding Partner Victor Sozio, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capita…

On this episode, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, interviews Jay Martin, the Executive Director of the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), a trade association representing 4,000 owners of rent-stabilized rental properties. Jay discusses the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear CHIP’s petition challenging the con…

In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, interviews Chris Balestra, President and Chief Investment Officer of Taconic Partners, about how and why the firm began offering office space to life sciences companies and its existing and planned office and multifamily projects.…

The Queens investment sales market experienced significant improvement in 1H 2023 compared to 2H 2022 resulting in a 39% increase in dollar volume to $2 billion, of which one-third was in the development asset class, which jumped 78% half-over-half to $632 million. In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, Pa…

Multifamily real estate sales in New York City experienced a significant 242% increase in total dollar volume during the second quarter compared to the first quarter with 295 transactions totaling $3.91 billion, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Q2 2023 Multifamily Quarter in Review report. Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Jason Gold, Senior Director, and Daniel Mahfar, Director, who specialize in investment property sales in the Bronx, discuss the findings in Ariel’s latest research report Bronx 2023 Mid-Year Commercial Real Estate Trends.…

How are commercial real estate investors looking at the Brooklyn market today? In this episode of Coffee & Cap Rates, Brooklyn specialists Sean R. Kelly, Esq., a Partner at Ariel Property Advisors, and Stephen Vorvolakos, Director, share the borough’s latest trends with Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors. For more detai…

What are the latest trends in Manhattan's commercial real estate market? In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses how the borough's assets performed in 1H 2023 with Manhattan experts Michael Tortorici, Founding Partner, and Howard Raber, Director. For more details, see Ariel Property Advisors’ Manh…

At Ariel Property Advisors’ Coffee & Cap Rates event on July 20, Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, moderated a panel discussion with industry experts, Kurt Stuart, Managing Director, Commercial Term Lending Northeast - Chase; Eleonora Bershadskaya, Principal, Real Estate - Vistria; and Christopher Balestra, President …

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, presented an overview of New York City’s investment sales market in the first six months of this year at Ariel Property Advisors’ Coffee & Cap Rates event on July 20. To see his presentation and download Ariel's research reports, please see https://arielpa.nyc/investor-relations/event…

In this episode of Coffee & Cap Rates, recorded the day after the Fed voted to hold rates steady for the first time in 15 months, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and Senior Director Matt Dzbanek discuss the lending environment in the last 30 days. Although underwriting is tougher, Dzbanek said activity has been bris…

On his latest podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, welcomes Ariel Partner Victor Sozio and explores first quarter trends in the multifamily market. Dollar volume totaled $2.11 billion in Q1 2023, a 39% drop year-over-year, and predominantly free market buildings accounted for 78% of the sales. Headwinds discusse…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director of Capital Services, discuss what borrowers can expect moving forward in the wake of the Fed’s latest rate hike and recent turmoil in the banking sector. At its March, the Federal Reserve unanimously voted to raise rates another quarter percentage poi…

In this episode of Coffee & Cap Rates, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses trends in the Queens investment sales market with Founding Partner Michael Tortorici and Director Alexander Taic. Ariel Property Advisors' Queens 2022 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report showed that Queens had a record-breakin…

In this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, interviews Senior Director Jason M. Gold and Director Daniel Mahfar about the performance of the commercial real estate market in the Bronx in 2022. They discuss the findings of Ariel Property Advisors' Bronx 2022 Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report, which s…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, Partner Sean Kelly and Director Stephen Vorvolakos discuss the outstanding performance of Brooklyn’s commercial real estate market in 2022. They highlight findings in the recently released Ariel Property Advisors 2022 Brooklyn Year-End Commercial Real Estate Trends report, which showe…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, Founding Partner Michael Tortorici and Director Howard Raber discuss the performance of Manhattan’s commercial real estate market in 2022 and the opportunities they see in 2023. They highlight the findings of the recently released Ariel Property Advisors 2022 Manhattan Year-End Commer…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, presented this overview of the 2022 New York City investment sales market and what to expect in 2023 at Ariel Property Advisors’ Coffee & Cap Rates event on February 2. To see his presentation and download Ariel's research reports, please see https://arielpa.nyc/investor-relations/eve…

At Ariel Property Advisors’ Coffee & Cap Rates event on February 2, Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, moderated a panel discussion with industry experts Tom Ortinau, Head of Acquisitions, for GFP Real Estate; Meir Milgraum, Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, Lightstone; and Ofer Yardeni, Chairman and CEO, Stonehenge…

The New York City multifamily sector saw a major resurgence in 2022 with $16 billion in total dollar volume for all multifamily properties (small buildings, buildings with 6-9 units and 10+ units) and $13.2 billion for buildings featuring 10 or more residential units. In this episode, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors,…

In this podcast recorded on December 15, the day after the Fed’s final meeting of the year, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and Eli Weisblum, Senior Director of Capital Services, discuss the Fed’s latest rate hike and what it means for borrowers. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously approved a .50% r…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests YuhTyng (Tyng) Patka, a Partner with Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Services at Ariel, discuss how New York City building owners can use commercial property assessed clean energy (CPACE) financing to comply with Local Law 97. Tyng i…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guest Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director of Capital Services, discuss how the market reacted to the 7.7% increase in the inflation rate in October, which was better than expected. Although Treasuries started to peak following the Fed’s latest .75% rate hike on November 2, after the…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses the latest trends in New York City’s multifamily market with Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Services.De către Ariel Property Advisors

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses the Brooklyn market and Gowanus rezoning with his Partner Sean Kelly, who has specialized in the Brooklyn market for more than 13 years. Kelly is particularly active in Gowanus, where this year he has arranged the acquisition of two development sites — one, a $21.6 million j…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses with Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Services, how borrowers and lenders are responding the Fed’s latest .75% rate hike. For more information about the Fed’s latest announcement, please see Ariel’s Capital Markets Monthly available here.…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, interviews Jason M. Gold and Daniel Mahfar, both Directors in Investment Sales specializing in the Bronx, on the performance of the borough's commercial real estate market during the first six months of this year. More details are available in Ariel Property Advisors' research report,…

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, presents an overview of New York City's investment sales market in the first half of 2022 at Ariel's bi-annual Coffee & Cap Rates event on July 28.De către Ariel Property Advisors

Shimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, moderates a panel discussion with industry experts Will Blodgett, Founder & CEO – Tredway; Andrea Himmel, Principal & Chief Investment Officer - Himmel + Meringoff Properties; and Rashid Walker, Founder & CEO - First Street Capital at Ariel's bi-annual Coffee & Cap Rates event on July…

Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and Eli Weisblum, Senior Director of Capital Services, discuss how borrowers and lenders are responding to the Federal Reserve's latest rate increase of 75 basis points, the highest rate hike since 1994.De către Ariel Property Advisors

In this episode, Ariel Property Advisors’ President Shimon Shkury and Matthew Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Services discuss the Federal Reserve’s recent announcement to raise rates by 50 basis points, the highest increase since 2000, and pledge to consider additional 50 basis point increases at upcoming meetings to help combat inflation. The …

Ariel Property Advisors’ President Shimon Shkury and Founding Partner Victor Sozio discuss how inflation and rising interest rates are affecting different segments of the multifamily market. Although contract signings are continuing, the multifamily sector has become more turbulent in the last 60 days primarily because interest rate hikes are trigg…

· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Matthew Dzbanek, Senior Director of Capital Services at Ariel · Matthew Dzbanek and Shimon Shkury sat down for our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast to discuss the impact and key takeaways for investors in the commercial real estate industry.…

· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury reviews the largest transactions of 2021 and the trends driving them. · Our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast features Ariel Property Advisors' 2021 proprietary year-end research which was presented during our bi-annual Coffee & Cap Rates event on February 3, 2022.…

· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Victor Sozio, EVP Investment Sales at Ariel. · Victor Sozio and Shimon Shkury sat down for our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast to discuss the multifamily trends in New York City.De către Ariel Property Advisors

· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Matthew Swerdlow, Director of Capital Services at Ariel · Matthew Swerdlow and Shimon Shkury sat down for our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast to discuss the impact and key takeaways for investors in the commercial real estate industry.…

· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Scott Metzner, Principal of Janus Property. · Scott Metzner and Shimon Shkury sat down recently for our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast to discuss the increase in activity as investors adjusted to the ebb and flow of the economic and business landscape during the pand…

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Executive Vice President Michael Tortorici. Discussions among Shimon and Michael include what the uptick in development activity in Manhattan means for New York City. Also discussed are insights into what drove the trends and transactions, along with highlighting key tran…

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Executive Vice President Victor Sozio. Discussions among Shimon and Victor include a reflection on the activity in the multifamily market in New York City over the past quarter and insight into what drove the trends and transactions, along with highlighting key transactio…

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Senior Director Sean Kelly and Director John Higgins Discussions among the speakers include a reflection on the activity in the Staten Island borough from the past 6 months and insight into what drove the trends. Also, the group spoke about their outlook on what is to com…

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Director Alexander Taic, Director Dorit Pinhas, and Associate Director Chris Afriyie Discussions among the speakers include a reflection on the activity in the Queens borough from the past 6 months and insight into what drove the trends. Also, the group spoke about their …

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Director Jason Gold and Director Daniel Mahfar Discussions among the speakers include a reflection on the activity in the Bronx borough from the past 6 months and insight into what drove the trends. Also, the group spoke about their outlook on what is to come in the secon…

President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a panel discussion between Senior Director Sean Kelly, Senior Director Jonathan Berman, Director Lawrence Sarn, and Director Stephen Vorvolakos Discussions among the speakers include a reflection on the activity in the Brooklyn borough from the past 6 months and insight into what drove the…