New York Commercial Real Estate Report, August 2026
Every figure below is computed from the 257 headlines Real Estate Trail’s wire tagged to New York from Aug 1 through the end of August 2026 (America/New York), each linked to its source. Nothing here is estimated or modelled.
New York carried the deepest coverage of any market on the wire this month, and office narrowly led the tagged headlines, with capital markets just behind and multifamily and retail following. Sales announcements were the most common transaction type, with leases next and financings and development milestones behind them, and Manhattan leasing produced a steady stream of tenant-signing items. Commercial Observer supplied the largest share of the coverage, with PR Newswire, Connect CRE and REBusiness Online making up most of the remainder and HousingWire contributing on the lending side. A large share of the month’s items carried no sector tag, which is typical of brokerage-hire and firm-news headlines rather than a gap in deal reporting.
Coverage by sector
| Sector | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Untagged | 100 | 39% |
| Office | 52 | 20% |
| Capital | 32 | 12% |
| Multifamily | 29 | 11% |
| Retail | 21 | 8% |
| Hospitality | 11 | 4% |
| Industrial | 6 | 2% |
| Mixed Use | 4 | 2% |
| Land | 2 | 1% |
157 of 257 items carry a sector tag (61%). Tags are inferred from the headline by regex, first match wins.
Deal-type mix
| Type | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sale | 39 | 15% |
| Financing | 37 | 14% |
| Lease | 32 | 12% |
| Development | 14 | 5% |
| Other transaction | 3 | 1% |
| No transaction cue | 132 | 51% |
Classified from headline cues only. A headline with no transaction cue is counted, not dropped.
Disclosed-price sales
23 priced headlines · 20 distinct dealsLargest by square footage
Outlets
| Outlet | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial Observer | 82 | 32% |
| Connect CRE | 50 | 19% |
| PR Newswire | 44 | 17% |
| REBusiness Online | 42 | 16% |
| HousingWire | 14 | 5% |
| CoStar | 4 | 2% |
| Hospitality Net | 4 | 2% |
| CRE Daily | 3 | 1% |
| CommercialSearch | 2 | 1% |
| Construction Dive | 2 | 1% |
| Crain's New York Business | 2 | 1% |
| The Business Journals | 2 | 1% |
| Multifamily Dive | 1 | 0% |
| Propmodo | 1 | 0% |
| Shopping Center Business | 1 | 0% |
| The Real Deal | 1 | 0% |
| The Registry | 1 | 0% |
| Yahoo Finance | 1 | 0% |
Outlet names are canonicalized so syndicated and regional editions of one publisher count together.
Firms mentioned
A mention is a headline that names the firm, whatever its role in the deal. It is not a transaction count and does not imply a broker, lender or buyer relationship.
| Firm | Headlines |
|---|---|
| Marcus & Millichap | 5 |
| JLL | 3 |
| Newmark | 3 |
| CBRE | 1 |
| Colliers | 1 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | 1 |
Each table is produced by one named query in src/lib/figures.ts: the reporting threshold by marketMonthGate, coverage by sector by marketMonthSectorCounts, deal-type mix by marketMonthDealTypeMix, disclosed-price sales by marketMonthPricedSales, square footage by marketMonthLargestBySqft, outlets by marketMonthOutletShare and firm mentions by marketMonthFirmMentions. The month window comes from monthBoundsUtc, America/New York.
Excluded from the priced tables: headlines that state more than one distinct money figure, non-USD amounts, per-unit or per-square-foot prices, rows suppressed by the relevance gate, and duplicate reports of the same deal (same market, value within one percent, published within a week), which are folded into one row with the other outlets listed beneath it.
Excluded from every table on this page: 27 headlines the wire’s tagger assigned to this market whose headline names a different state, market or city (the tagger reads the story excerpt, so a firm’s home city can mis-tag a deal elsewhere). The rule is hasLocationConflict in the same file, applied before counting.
No figure on this page is produced by a language model. The editor’s note, where present, is written by a person and contains no numbers. Summed deal volume, per-firm deal credit, market share, cap rates and price-per-square-foot medians are deliberately not published: the corpus is a sample of what named outlets chose to report, not the market. Sources and methodology.