by Matthew Astrachan | May 3, 2016 | Blog, New York Real Estate, Real Estate
In Long Island City, they prefer Pepsi-Cola — at least one would assume so from the large sign standing watch over the waterfront. The long recognizable icon to tourists and a source of pride for Queens residents will be inducted as an official New York...
by Matthew Astrachan | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Commercial Real Estate
The question of whether malls are in or out in Manhattan has been hotly contested since Brookfield Place, a luxury mall in downtown Manhattan, sprung up directly across from Ground Zero. Even as a Real Estate investor, I can relate to both sides of this argument,...
by Matthew Astrachan | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog, Commercial Real Estate
With China’s stock market steadily plummeting and the overall value of the yuan dropping right along with it, many of the country’s investors are turning their attention, along with their business deals, overseas to the U.S. real estate market. Originally starting...
by Matthew Astrachan | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog, Commercial Real Estate
With new surveys finding an increasing percentage of millennials choosing to live in the suburbs rather than the city, the commercial real estate market is shifting to accommodate an updated version of an old American dream. While the generation that came of age in...
by Matthew Astrachan | Nov 27, 2015 | Commercial Real Estate
For all of the peace, quiet, seclusion, and cheap office space that suburban America offers, corporations and companies have always clung to the need to have offices within major cities. Of course, they don’t get any more major than Manhattan. The trouble is that real...