There were 167 transactions totaling $1.1 billion filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in New York was for a sponsor unit at the Reuben Brother’s The Surrey Residences at 20 East 76th Street on the Upper East Side. An LLC tied to Greek businessman and Libra Group founder George Logothetis paid $28 million for a 5,400-square-foot pad with six bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half bathrooms. The deal works out to about $5,300 per square foot. Logothetis recently sold the former Rockefeller townhouse at 13 East 94th Street — which appears on a mortgage related to the most recent purchase — for $15.5 million.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial real estate transaction was with SL Green Realty Corp., whose acquisition of the Park Avenue Tower at 65 East 55th Street in the Plaza District for $730 million hit records. The seller was Blackstone, which had bought the building in 2014 for $750 million. The Class-A office property stands 36 stories tall and measures nearly 622,000 square feet. SL Green financed the deal with a new $480 million CMBS loan.
📊 Residential: In the West Village, a condo at 150 Charles Street changed hands for $16.3 million. The buyer was Moon Shadow New York LLC. The seller, Charles 14B LLC, had purchased the unit in 2016 for $14.5 million, or about $4,300 per square foot. The 3,400-square-foot pad has four bedrooms, four and a half baths and direct elevator access. The unit has been on and off the market since 2024, when its initial asking price was about $19.8 million. Douglas Elliman’s Raphael De Niro and James Flowers had the listing.
📊 Residential: An LLC tied to a Texas-based ophthalmologist, Dr. Maurice Syrquin, shed a combined condo at the Trump Tower at 721 Fifth Avenue in Midtown for $8.2 million. The LLC had acquired three units in 2021 for $6.2 million, then sold one of the units in 2023 for just under $2 million. The new owner of the combined pad is WTMNYC LLC. The unit spans 2,600 square feet and has three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. Rana Williams with Keller Williams represented the seller. The transaction works out to about $3,200 per square foot.
📊 Residential: Investor Mo Kofman and his wife, interior designer Hilary Koyfman, sold a co-op at 200 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights for $7.5 million, or $2,500 per square foot. The buyer was Clara Molot. The three-bedroom home measures 3,000 square feet. Corcoran’s Leslie Marshall and Nick Hovsepian had the listing.
By the Numbers: CMBS issuance hits nearly 20-year peak in 2025
Issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities hit a nearly 20-year high last year.
Domestic, private-label originators issued $125.6 billion worth of CMBS loans across 173 deals, a 21 percent increase compared to the year before, according to data from Trepp. That dollar volume was the highest since 2007, when CMBS issuance reached $230.5 billion.
CMBS deals backed by office buildings had the highest balance issued last year, at nearly $29 billion. That was up year over year by almost 207 percent, underscoring the shifting demand for office properties as the asset class continues to emerge from the pandemic-era crash.
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