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Massey Knakal Realty Services

275 Madison Avenue, Third Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212) 696-2500

Massey Knakal Realty Services was one of New York City largest investment-sales brokerages. It represented owners exclusively and was started in 1988 by Robert Knakal and Paul Massey Jr., its chairman and CEO, respectively. Cushman & Wakefield acquired the firm in late 2014 for approximately $100 million.

The brokerage operates under a rather novel territory system, wherein it divides the city into nearly 50 different geographic areas that brokers in each then focus on. The system is not without controversy, as brokers outside of geographic areas must pay parts of their commissions from deals done inside those areas to the brokers who focus on them. Still, the system, as well as a focus on just about every size, type and class of building or site, helped Massey Knakal grow relatively quickly into a major player in the New York City area (it focuses not only on the five boroughs, but on Westchester County, Long Island and northern New Jersey). In 2011, for instance, Massey Knakal brokered 142 deals under $50 million, more than any other brokerage.

Since 1988, it has brokered more than 4,200 transactions worth an aggregate total of $15 billion. The firm grew from Massey and Knakal to more than 100 employees in four offices, including its headquarters at 275 Madison Avenue. The brokerage launched a retail leasing wing in early 2011 under Winick Realty's former president Benjamin Fox.


Inside JLL’s investment sales shakeup
10/08/18
...For the first time since before he co-founded Massey Knakal Realty Services in 1988, Knakal found himself in the job market this June after his acrimonious split...

Inside JLL’s investment
sales shakeup
...For the first time since before he co-founded Massey Knakal Realty Services in 1988, Knakal found himself in the job market this June after his acrimonious split...

Massey’s B6 Real Estate Advisors hires Queens pro from Cushman
09/04/18
...Advisors has lured yet another former colleague from Massey Knakal Realty Services and Cushman & Wakefield. Tom Donovan, vice chairman at Cushman’s capital markets group...

Another Massey Knakal and C&W veteran joins B6 Real Estate Advisors
08/28/18
...managing director of investment sales. Chase, formerly of Massey Knakal Realty Services and Cushman & Wakefield, is leaving One Commercial Realty Services, a brokerage he founded...

Massey’s B6 Real Estate Advisors hires familiar face to lead first Brooklyn team
08/22/18
...B6 Real Estate Advisors hired a veteran of Massey Knakal Realty Services and Cushman & Wakefield to lead the new brokerage’s first team in Brooklyn...

Bleeding talent: A look at Cushman’s top departures in the first half of 2018
07/24/18
...of three principals. Meanwhile, the leadership team from Massey Knakal Realty Services, which Cushman acquired in late 2014 for $100 million, is all but gone. Power broker James...

Paul Massey leases Bryant Park space for new brokerage
07/23/18
...the city.” Massey, who sold his eponymous brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services with partner Bob Knakal to Cushman & Wakefield in 2014 for $100 million, struck out on...

Will Cushman fall flat on Wall Street?
07/02/18
...of three principals. Meanwhile, the leadership team from Massey Knakal Realty Services, which Cushman acquired in late 2014 for $100 million, is all but gone. Power broker James...

Eastern Consolidated’s fate was sealed by a 2013 reboot
07/02/18
...began to take notice of structural changes at Massey Knakal Realty Services. In a bid to expand services that would make it more valuable to a...

Will Cushman fall flat on Wall Street?
...of three principals. Meanwhile, the leadership team from Massey Knakal Realty Services, which Cushman acquired in late 2014 for $100 million, is all but gone. Power broker James...

National Cheat Sheet: Zillow plans to file for a $650M public offering … & more
06/29/18
...Paul Massey and then-business partner Bob Knakal sold Massey Knakal Realty Services to Cushman & Wakefield. Three-and-a-half years later, Cushman & Wakefield has terminated Knakal, and...

Paul Massey ready to launch new brokerage
06/27/18
...territory model made famous by his old firm, Massey Knakal Realty Services. “We were the authority on the ground with boots on the ground,” he said...

CBRE hires HFF I-sales broker David Fowler
06/27/18
...Park. Before joining HFF in 2012, he worked at Massey Knakal Realty Services. The CBRE Capital Markets team is led in New York City by Darcy Stacom...

Bob Knakal out at Cushman
06/25/18
...Cushman & Wakefield. Three-and-a-half years after Cushman acquired Massey Knakal Realty Services, the brokerage severed ties with the investment-sales broker. “Cushman & Wakefield terminated its relationship...

How Eastern went south: Inside the commercial brokerage’s demise
06/15/18
...when the investment sales market was going gangbusters, Massey Knakal Realty Services sold to Cushman & Wakefield for about $100 million. “You have to be more than...

Cushman is planning to file for an IPO in June: sources
05/30/18
...lost some key players from its team of Massey Knakal Realty Services alumni — James Nelson, who is growing a team at Avison Young, and former mayoral...

Ripco pinches Geoff Bailey from SCG Retail
05/15/18
...publication. After a stint in investment sales at Massey Knakal Realty Services, Bailey went to Brooklyn-centric TerraCRG before joining SCG in 2013, according to the report. Mark...

Paul Massey working on building new brokerage
05/04/18
...bringing on some familiar faces from the old Massey Knakal Realty Services team. Since leaving Cushman & Wakefield earlier last month, Massey’s hired former Massey...

Paul Massey has left Cushman & Wakefield
04/06/18
...worked since the end of 2014, when Cushman bought Massey Knakal Realty Services, according to the Commercial Observer. He has taken office space at 275 Madison Avenue, where...

Purplebricks parachutes into NYC disavowing broker fees
04/03/18
...director for the Brooklyn and Queens divisions of Massey Knakal Realty Services. Purplebricks is also borrowing the Massey Knakal model of carving up geographic territories and...

The NYC investment sales market has a new No. 1 firm. Here’s who it is
02/06/18
...cornered the high-volume $10 million-to-$30 million market since acquiring Massey Knakal Realty Services for $100 million in 2015. But one broker source said that a chunk of Cushman’s...

The investment sales shakeout
...cornered the high-volume $10 million-to-$30 million market since acquiring Massey Knakal Realty Services for $100 million in 2015. But one broker source said that a chunk of Cushman’s...

Here’s how Cushman’s new star I-sales team is faring
11/30/17
...last year, to $4.6 billion since its acquisition of Massey Knakal Realty Services in 2015. But while Harmon and Spies may just be getting warmed up at their...

Is Cushman’s new dynamo team delivering?
...last year, to $4.6 billion since its acquisition of Massey Knakal Realty Services in 2015. But while Harmon and Spies may just be getting warmed up at their...

Will Paul Massey stay with Cushman for the long run? He’s not sure
06/28/17
...tri-state region at Cushman, which acquired Massey's brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services at the end of 2014 for $100 million. But it was only 15 months after the sale...
Robert Knakal
Cushman & Wakefield, Chairman
1290 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY, (212) 660-7777
Robert Knakal is chairman of capital markets at the global brokerage Cushman &...
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  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Upper East Side
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Publication Date 02/01/2015
  • Event Date 12/18/2014
  • Party 1 Broker Thomas Gammino, Jr.
  • Party 2 Brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services
  • Party 2 Broker Thomas D. Gammino, Jr.
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  • Address 963 First Avenue
  • Neighborhood Midtown
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Price $ 10,400,000
  • Publication Date 02/01/2015
  • Event Date 12/18/2014
  • Party 1 Broker Clint Olsen
  • Party 2 Brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services
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  • Address 85 Fifth Avenue
  • Neighborhood Flatiron
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Square feet 102,991
  • Price $ 86,000,000
  • Price per foot $ 835.02
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  • Neighborhood Midtown
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Crown Heights
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  • Neighborhood Midtown
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Address 269-271 East Houston Street
  • Neighborhood Lower East Side
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Lower East Side
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Crown Heights
  • Borough Brooklyn
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  • Address 55 West 19th Street
  • Neighborhood Chelsea
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Brooklyn Heights
  • Borough Brooklyn
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  • Neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant
  • Borough Brooklyn
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  • Address 225 East 30th Street
  • Neighborhood Kips Bay
  • Borough Manhattan
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  • Neighborhood Hell's Kitchen
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Price $ 112,000,000
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  • Address 41 West 24th Street
  • Neighborhood Chelsea
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Square feet 2,325
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  • Address 41 West 24th Street
  • Neighborhood Chelsea
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Square feet 2,300
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  • Address 471 86th Street
  • Neighborhood Fort Hamilton
  • Borough Brooklyn
  • Square feet 1,000
  • Publication Date 12/01/2014
  • Event Date 10/17/2014
  • Party 1 Brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services
  • Party 1 Broker Mitzi Flexer
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  • Address 55 Maspeth Avenue
  • Neighborhood Williamsburg
  • Borough Brooklyn
  • Price $ 1,500,000
  • Publication Date 12/01/2014
  • Event Date 10/17/2014
  • Party 1 Broker Mark Lively and Brendan Maddigan
  • Party 2 Brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services
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  • Address 555 West End Avenue
  • Neighborhood Upper West Side
  • Borough Manhattan
  • Price $ 50,000,000
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Investment sales ranking:
Who crushed it
and who got crushed?
...world rise significantly because of its acquisition of Massey Knakal Realty Services — an outer-borough sales powerhouse, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens. Rosewood, meanwhile, continued racking up...

Gap widens between rivals
...CBRE, meanwhile, ranked a distant second with $5.4 billion. Massey Knakal Realty Services, which was purchased by Cushman & Wakefield at the end of 2014, snagged the No...

Who’s heading to housing court?
...Management. A real estate investment fund created by Massey Knakal Realty Services and RiverOak Investment is a partner is several of the Castellan buildings. At 148 West...

Commercial sales catch the Brooklyn fever
...Mercado, vice president of research at commercial brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services. To provide a snapshot of the bull market, The Real Deal this month compiled...

The ‘quietest borough’ is making some noise
...Adrian Mercado, head of research for commercial brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services. Some $1.6 billion of sales activity took place in the borough in the first half...

Manhattan’s riskiest development deals
...from the last year, using data from brokerage Massey Knakal Realty Services and news reports. Then we took it a step further and compared the per-square-foot...

The big broker boost
...especially good news for Eastdil Secured, CBRE Group, Massey Knakal Realty Services and Rosewood Realty Group, the top four firms on TRD’s ranking. All saw...

It’s getting hot (and
crowded) in here
...firms list. Those brokerages include Crown Retail Services, Massey Knakal Realty Services and Charter Realty & Development. Crown, the brokerage arm of the Chera family’s...

FiDi investors change their tune
...an executive managing director at investment sales firm Massey Knakal Realty Services, said he’s seeing “heated interest” from investors looking for Lower Manhattan office buildings...

Stacking up sales brokers
...York City last year, according to figures from Massey Knakal Realty Services. That was the highest dollar volume since 2007 — when sales peaked at $62 billion — and up...

Boroughs battle it out
...the boroughs," said Paul Massey Jr., CEO of Massey Knakal Realty Services. The only building in the Bronx with Class A availability as of last month...

On retail front, Queens isn’t royalty
...retail clusters, said Tom Donovan, managing partner at Massey Knakal Realty Services in Queens. National drug store chains have reached the saturation point, said Donovan. "Now...

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