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15 West 39th Street
15 West 39th Street

West 39th Street office property asks $65M

The 16-story commercial property at 15 West 39th Street, which has 80,858 square feet of net-leasable square feet above grade, is up for grabs, The Real Deal has learned. Real estate investment and advisory firm Venture Capital Properties has been tapped by the owners to market the property, which is asking $65 million. Venture directors Jeremy Nazarian and Vickram Jambu are marketing the building, located between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Full-floor tenants — a mix of nonprofits, investment and creative firms — occupy 13 of the 16 floors in the building, Nazarian said, adding that the property is adjacent to Ziel Feldman’s hotel and condominium project at 20 West 40th Street.

Boerum Hill luxury rental hits market

The Naftali Group’s luxury rental the Bergen, at 316 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, is up for sale. The 84-unit property on the corner of Third Avenue totals roughly 55,000 square feet, which could work out to a sale price of just over $1,000 per square foot, or $55 million, market sources told the New York Post. Woody Heller, Will Silverman, Eric Negrin and Daniel Parker of Savills Studley are marketing the building, reportedly with an eye toward converting it to condominiums. Naftali developed the property along with capital partner AEW Capital Management. Units are fetching monthly rents ranging from $2,123 for 421 square feet to $3,520 for 945 square feet.

Greenwich Village rental listed at $45M

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A nine-story apartment building at 159-161 Bleecker Street is on the market with an asking price of $45 million. The 28,440-square-foot property, located on the north side of Bleecker Street between Sullivan and Thompson streets, consists of a mix of 18 one- and two-bedrooms apartments. Average in-place rents currently amount to about $87 per square foot. In addition to the residences, the property, built in 2006, has four office suites and a ground-floor retail space that measures approximately 8,500 square feet. David Schechtman, Lipa Lieberman and Gary Meese of Eastern Consolidated are handling the sale.

RockFarmer lists five walk-ups in 170s

RockFarmer Capital principals John Petras and George Michelis listed five Washington Heights apartment buildings for $32 million. The walk-up properties at 633 West 171st Street; 636, 642 and 643 West 172nd Street and 650 West 173rd Street contain mostly rent-stabilized units. There are 146 apartments total. The buildings offer a combined 80,000 square feet in air rights alone. Robert Shapiro of Massey Knakal Realty Services is representing RockFarmer. “This is the best market in upper Manhattan that I have seen in 13 years, even better than the boom in 2007,” Shapiro told Crain’s. “People are paying the highest prices ever here because they believe this area has a lot more upside.”

UES apartment building asking $12.75M

A six-story apartment building at 331 East 81st Street is on the market with an asking price of $12.75 million. Located between First and Second avenues, the property has 14 units, including three studios, four one-bedrooms and seven two-bedrooms. The building also has a retail space on the ground floor, which is occupied by Bar Prima, a wine bar. The property comes with an assumable mortgage of $5 million at 3 percent interest for four years from Santander Bank. Shay Zach of EPIC Commercial Realty is handling the assignment.