Market intelligence, then execution.

William Lockley is a NYC investment-sales broker on the APT212 team at Compass, specializing in commercial investment sales across multifamily, mixed-use, development sites, and hotels in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. He brings institutional-grade underwriting and submarket research to every assignment — and publishes that analysis openly through NYC CRE Insights so buyers, owners, and developers can act on current data, not last year's comps.

The short version: an active NYC investment-sales broker focused on the submarkets where residents and capital are migrating — with the analysis published openly here, not locked in a deck.

The thesis

New York's next decade of value isn't evenly distributed. It concentrates in up-and-coming, mid-to-high-income neighborhoods with real buildable upside — places where rents are climbing, rezonings are unlocking density, and capital is rotating in ahead of the crowd. That's the focus: Manhattan south of 96th Street, a tight set of Brooklyn neighborhoods, and a handful of Queens submarkets that are repricing fast.

The work is two-sided. For owners, that means dispositions — pricing to real comps, sharpening positioning, and running a targeted process to the buyers who actually close. For buyers and investors, it means originating the right deals, including off-market opportunities, with the underwriting to move quickly when one fits the thesis. No property is bought for a proprietary book; the role is to connect the right asset to the right capital and get it across the line.

Coverage

• Multifamily — two-to-four-family through larger apartment buildings in the core Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods.
• Mixed-use — retail-over-residential and corridor assets along repricing commercial strips.
• Development sites — buildable area, FAR, assemblage, and rezoning corridors like Gowanus, Williamsburg, and Long Island City.
• Hotels — select hospitality investment-sales opportunities.

Why publish the analysis

Good investment-sales decisions come from current, specific data — not last year's narrative. These submarkets are tracked block by block, and the read is shared openly: the cap-rate ranges, the rent moves, the rezoning math. If it helps a buyer underwrite faster or an owner time a sale better, that's the point. The data lives on the submarkets, multifamily, and development pages, with sources cited throughout.