On this podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses the overall financial health of rent stabilized buildings in New York City with Jay Martin, Executive Director of the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), a landlord advocacy group, and Matt Engel, President of Langsam Property Services Corp., an owner/operator, and Chairman of CHIP.

The topics include rising interest rates, post-Covid collections, property taxes, the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act (HSTPA) of 2019 and the state’s new housing policy, which tweaked HSTPA by slightly increasing Individual Apartment Improvement caps for rent stabilized apartments. A summary of the state’s new housing policy is available here.

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 challenging for existing multifamily owners because some free market units will now be regulated and increased apartment improvement allowances for rent regulated units won’t be high enough to make a meaningful difference except possibly in the outer boroughs.

To read a summary of the state’s new housing policy, please click here.

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 Partner Mike Tortorici and Director Howard, discuss the report’s findings and dig deeper into Manhattan’s multifamily, development and office markets. Average multifamily cap rates, for example, rose to 5.24% in 2023, while the average price per buildable square foot for development sites declined to $390. They also shared their optimism going into 2024 because of the strong fundamentals in the Manhattan market as indicated by the 50,000 BSF development site sale that Ariel recently arranged at 250 West 30th Street in Chelsea for $15,875,000.

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 Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Sean R. Kelly, Esq., Partner, and Stephen Vorvolakos, Director in Investment Sales, who specialize in investment property sales in Brooklyn, discuss the findings in the year-end report, the role interest rates played in the market last year and the need for lawmakers to pass legislation to encourage new development.

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, Senior Director, and Daniel Mahfar, Director, who specialize in investment property sales in the Bronx, review the latest Bronx report. They also discuss what to expect in this submarket in 2024 and two recent Bronx transactions arranged by Ariel—the $26 million sale of a 237-unit high-rise multifamily building at 1500 Noble Avenue and the $14.7 million sale of a portfolio of six multifamily buildings with 203 units in Morris Heights.

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 Capital; Richard Roberts, Principal & Chief Business Development Officer - Red Stone Equity Partners; Jesse Terry, Chief Investment Officer - HUBB NYC. To watch the full event and download Ariel's research reports, please see https://arielpa.nyc/investor-relations/event/240207-coffee-and-cap-rates

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://arielpa.nyc/investor-relations/event/240207-coffee-and-cap-rates

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 Advisors’ Multifamily Year in Review New York City, the multifamily sector in New York City experienced a notable downturn, with total dollar volume of $7.4 billion spread across 1,036 transactions, a year-over-year drop of 52% and 35%, respectively. However, the anticipation of interest rate cuts and an influx of new capital is already leading to renewed activity in the new year.

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, Capital Markets, unpack the numbers and explain what to expect following the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the petition brought by CHIP and RSA against NYC’s rent stabilization laws and how the FDIC’s sale of the Signature portfolio will affect the market.

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 constitutionality of New York’s rent stabilization laws; his advocacy for legislation that would reset rents on units vacated by long-time tenants to help pay for renovations; and how the city could provide vouchers to tenants struggling to pay rent.