Deal origination for buyers
The right deals reach qualified buyers and investors — on- and off-market — backed by the underwriting and submarket read to move quickly.
NYC Commercial Real Estate
Where NYC capital is moving next — tracked across Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.
Market intelligence from an active NYC investment-sales broker — reading the data on Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan submarkets, then originating the deals worth doing.
The practice
Market analysis paired with investment-sales execution.
NYC CRE Insights pairs neighborhood-level market intelligence with day-to-day deal flow — originating the right opportunities for qualified buyers and investors and running dispositions for owners, across multifamily, mixed-use, development sites, and hotels.
Dispositions for owners
Dispositions for owners: pricing, positioning, and a targeted buyer process built to reach the capital that actually closes.
Market intelligence
Submarket-by-submarket analysis — rents, cap rates, sales trends, and rezoning upside — so decisions rest on current data, not anecdotes.
Focus areas
Up-and-coming, mid-to-high-income submarkets where capital is migrating.
The thesis is simple: follow residents, capital, and buildable upside. These are the clusters tracked closely and transacted in.
- Manhattan: south of 96th Street.
- Brooklyn: Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Fort Greene, Red Hook, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint.
- Queens: Astoria, Long Island City, Whitestone, Malba.
Market signals
Recent data shaping NYC investment sales
A few of the numbers worth watching right now. Full sourcing on each submarket page.
Why it works
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Market data and investment-sales execution, in one place.
Deals, not noise
Qualified buyers and investors get curated, underwritten opportunities that fit a defined thesis — including off-market deals you won't find on the open listing sites.
Owners get a disciplined disposition
Pricing grounded in real comps, sharp positioning, and a targeted buyer process designed to reach the capital that actually closes.
Submarket-level conviction
Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan tracked block by block — rents, cap rates, rezonings, buildable area — so timing and pricing rest on current data.
Built around the asset classes that matter
Multifamily, mixed-use, development sites, and hotels — the deals where market knowledge and execution make the difference.
From the insights desk
Questions buyers and owners ask most
Multifamily
What cap rate should I expect for a Crown Heights multifamily?
Crown Heights three-family product has traded around a ~3.9% cap, with broader asking cap rates roughly 5.9%–9.7% depending on stabilization and condition.
Dispositions
How do I sell a multifamily building in Brooklyn?
Price to real comps, fix what's cheap to fix, and run a targeted process to the buyers who close — not a blast to everyone.
Development
What's a development site worth in a rezoned corridor?
It comes down to buildable square footage and the residual after construction — Gowanus, Williamsburg, and LIC are the corridors to watch.
About the author
William Lockley — NYC Investment-Sales Broker
William Lockley is the investment-sales broker and author behind NYC CRE Insights. On the APT212 team at Compass, he is focused on multifamily, mixed-use, development sites, and hotels across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens — pairing institutional-grade underwriting with the kind of block-by-block read most firms keep in-house. Every piece of market analysis, submarket data, and Q&A on this site is written and published by him.
Brokerage
APT212 at Compass — New York City
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