Merchants Bank Retains CBRE to Market Fee Interest in Midtown Residential Property
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. New York continues to bifurcate sharply: trophy office leasing at record rents, commodity Class B in conversion discussions or court-supervised processes. Rent-stabilized multifamily remains supply-constrained and tightly held. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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On the RET wire
- The 284th New York story tracked on the wire in October 2026. All New York coverage →
- Disclosed retail deal value tracked in October 2026: $15.6B across 97 reported transactions. All Retail coverage →
- 98 stories mentioning CBRE on the wire in the past 90 days. CBRE coverage →
Computed from Real Estate Trail’s own tracked coverage
CBRE has been retained by Merchants Bank to market for sale the fee interest in 19 W. 55th St., a vacant, nine-story residential property with continuous retail frontage in Midtown Manhattan. CBRE’s Daniel Kaplan was…
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