THE REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK New York City Investment Sales Report First Half 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 2 Key Findings ................................................................................................................... 2 Sales Activity by Borough ................................................................................................ 2 Sales Activity by Property Category ................................................................................ 2 Sales Data – Citywide and by Borough ....................................................................................... 5 Charts by Borough ...................................................................................................................... 6 Sales Data by Property Category – Citywide .............................................................................. 7 Charts by Property Category ...................................................................................................... 8 Property Category Sales Data by Borough ................................................................................. 9 Manhattan ....................................................................................................................... 9 The Bronx ..................................................................................................................... 10 Brooklyn ........................................................................................................................ 11 Queens ......................................................................................................................... 12 Staten Island ................................................................................................................. 13 Sales Data History – Citywide and by Borough ......................................................................... 14 Sales Data History by Property Category .................................................................................. 15 Methodology ............................................................................................................................. 16 Cover photo: Lafayette Boynton, a multifamily rental complex in the Bronx, owned/operated by Nelson Management Group THE REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY INVESTMENT SALES REPORT 1H16 | 1 Executive Summary The New York City investment sales market observed a moderate drop in both total consideration (monetary value for completed transactions) and number of transactions in the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015. This dip countered activity that occurred in the first half of 2015, which posted the largest total consideration and greatest number of transactions year-over-year since the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) began tracking activity in the first half of 2014. Key Findings Citywide sales consideration and transaction volume slowed in the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015. Total consideration for all five boroughs was $29.5 billion; a decrease of $7.5 billion, or 20 percent, compared to the first half of 2015. The total number of transactions was 2,581; a decrease of 623 transactions, or 19 percent, compared to the first half of 2015. Since REBNY first started tracking investment sales in 2014, the average citywide investment sales consideration per half year has totaled $29.6 billion while transactions have averaged 2,604 per half year. Manhattan investment property trading continued to outpace the other boroughs in total consideration. Manhattan consideration in the first half of 2016 totaled $21.2 billion, or 72 percent of citywide consideration. The Bronx showed the greatest year-over-year percentage increase in consideration rising four percent from $1.50 billion to $1.55 billion. Office buildings garnered the largest share of citywide investment sales consideration at 41 percent, or $12.1 billion, in the first half of 2016. The five largest sale prices in the first half of 2016 were for office buildings. They were: the $1.9 billion sale of 787 Seventh Avenue, formerly the AXA Equitable Center; the $1.8 billion sale of 390 Greenwich Street; the $1.4 billion sale of 550 Madison Avenue, The Sony Building; the $1.3 billion sale of 1285 Avenue of the Americas; and the $900 million sale of a 49 percent stake in 1211 Avenue of the Americas, the News Corporation Headquarters. Sales Activity by Borough The number of transactions decreased in each borough in the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015. Manhattan transactions declined 28 percent from 704 in the first half of 2015 to 508; Brooklyn saw a 26 percent year-over-year decrease in transactions from 1,223 to 901; Queens transactions fell 11 percent from 644 in the same period last year to 576; and Staten Island saw transactions decline 12 percent from 176 to 155 year-over-year. Transactions in the Bronx posted the smallest percentage decrease among the five boroughs dipping four percent from 457 in the same period last year to 441 in the first half of 2016. Manhattan’s consideration dropped by the largest total dollar amount compared to the first quarter of 2015, declining 22 percent from $27.2 billion to $21.2 billion. Staten Island’s consideration had the largest overall percentage drop of 35 percent with consideration declining from $285 million to $186 million. Brooklyn’s 26 percent decrease in consideration, from $5.7 billion to $4.2 billion, was the next largest decline in both percentage and dollar amount of consideration. In contrast, the Bronx and Queens were the only boroughs to post increases in sales consideration in the first half of 2016. Bronx sales consideration rose four percent from $1.50 billion to $1.55 billion, while Queens consideration remained steady showing $2.4 billion in sales in both the first half of 2016 and the first half of 2015. Brooklyn saw large decreases in consideration for Industrial properties, which declined 33 percent, as well as for Garages, Gas Stations and Vacant Land, which dipped 40 percent. The largest transaction in Brooklyn was the partial sale of the Barclays Center at 620 Atlantic Avenue for $252 million. This sale bolstered consideration in the “Other” Category, the only Brooklyn property category in which consideration increased in the first half of 2016. THE REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY INVESTMENT SALES REPORT 1H16 | 2 Total Bronx multifamily rental building sales comprised more than a quarter of the city’s multifamily rental consideration in first half of 2016, as multifamily rental elevator and non-elevator sales increased in both consideration and number of transactions. The highest-priced transaction in the borough was the $67 million sale of a 470-unit elevator apartment complex at 549 Commonwealth Avenue in Clason Point. A 6,700-square- foot parcel of vacant land at 841 East 141st Street, located in a manufacturing area of Port Morris, sold as the second highest-priced transaction in the borough for $39 million. Queens investment sales consideration in the first half of 2016 demonstrated robust year-over-year performance, remaining on par with the first half of 2015, the strongest half-year REBNY has recorded since 2014. Queens experienced sales consideration growth in Industrial and “Other” properties. The highest-priced sale in the borough was the $156 million sale of a 656,000-square-foot Long Island City warehouse at 23-02 49th Avenue, followed by the $96 million sale of the 130-unit Long Island City multifamily rental elevator building at 41-17 Crescent Street. Staten Island recorded almost $100 million less in sales consideration, showing $186 million in properties sold in the first half of 2016 compared to $285 million sold in the first half of 2015. The highest-value transaction in Staten Island was the $20 million sale of a 177-unit multifamily elevator rental building at 1950 Clove Road, which accounted for approximately ten percent of the borough’s total consideration. Manhattan powered citywide consideration in the first half of 2016, recording $21.2 billion of sales consideration, a 22 percent drop from $27.2 million in the same period last year. While consideration of Industrial categorized properties in Manhattan showed a robust year-over-year increase, rising 89 percent from $92 million to $174 million, the number of transactions stayed steady, decreasing from six to five. Among these Industrial transactions completed in the first half of 2016, the Midtown West warehouse at 430 West 55th Street sold for $67 million and the self-storage warehouse at 38 Convent Avenue sold for $48 million. While many property categories in Manhattan showed large decreases from the first half of 2015, dollar consideration and transaction volume for multifamily rental elevator properties remained steady, decreasing from 72 to 69, and a seven percent decline in sales consideration from $2.4 billion to $2.3 billion in the first half of 2016. Sales Activity by Property Category Offices Offices buildings garnered the largest share of citywide investment sales consideration at 41 percent, or $12.1 billion, in the first half of 2016. Office building transactions decreased 27 percent from 276 to 201. Manhattan accounted for 95.5 percent of citywide office sales in the first half of 2016 compared to 85.7 percent in the second half of 2015 and 94.8 percent in the