Category: Commercial Real Estate

The global pandemic and economic crisis continue to take hold of New York. While the market is filled with uncertainties, one thing we know for sure is the low-interest rate environment will continue, as the Fed recently announced it plans to keep interest rate near zero through 2023. Now commercial real estate owners are facing […]

NY office market is not dead, but ever-changing and evolving. “There are a lot of developers who are very hungry to find distressed real estate,” said Robert Rynarzewski, Head of CRE at Piermont Bank to Market Watch.

Craig Nassi of Buchanan Development LLC has closed on $8 million in financing for 65 Buchanan Pl. The financing was placed by Robert Rynarzewski and Andrew Gladstone of Piermont Bank. The subject is a newly developed class-A multifamily property containing 25 residential units, and three commercial spaces. The seven-story property also has 12 parking spaces.

Piermont Bank are sizing the moment to help commercial real estate developers, owners and operators as big banks become timid in the shaky pandemic economy. “We’ve had a multitude of clients that were about to close deals with an existing bank,” said Robert Rynarzewski, head of commercial real estate at Piermont, “but the bank won’t return their phone calls. They’re leaving their clients at the closing table.”

Today there’s more uncertainty in the commercial real-estate market. Many lenders are telling clients they are “waiting to see how the market will play out.” Challenged by growing defaults, lenders are focused on tightening structures across their client base.