There were 167 transactions totaling $1.1 billion filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in New York was for a sponsor unit at the Reuben Brother’s The Surrey Residences at 20 East 76th Street on the Upper East Side. An LLC tied to Greek-American businessman and Libra Group founder George Logothetis paid $28 million for a 5,400-square-foot pad with six bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half bathrooms. The deal works out to about $5,300 per square foot. Logothetis recently sold the former Rockefeller townhouse at 13 East 94th Street — which appears on a mortgage related to the most recent purchase — for $15.5 million.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial real estate transaction was with SL Green Realty Corp., whose acquisition of the Park Avenue Tower at 65 East 55th Street in the Plaza District for $730 million hit records. The seller was Blackstone, which had bought the building in 2014 for $750 million. The Class-A office property stands 36 stories tall and measures nearly 622,000 square feet. SL Green financed the deal with a new $480 million CMBS loan.
📊 Residential: In the West Village, a condo at 150 Charles Street changed hands for $16.3 million. The buyer was Moon Shadow New York LLC. The seller, Charles 14B LLC, had purchased the unit in 2016 for $14.5 million, or about $4,300 per square foot. The 3,400-square-foot pad has four bedrooms, four and a half baths and direct elevator access. The unit has been on and off the market since 2024, when its initial asking price was about $19.8 million. Douglas Elliman’s Raphael De Niro and James Flowers had the listing.
📊 Residential: An LLC tied to a Texas-based ophthalmologist, Dr. Maurice Syrquin, shed a combined condo at the Trump Tower at 721 Fifth Avenue in Midtown for $8.2 million. The LLC had acquired three units in 2021 for $6.2 million, then sold one of the units in 2023 for just under $2 million. The new owner of the combined pad is WTMNYC LLC. The unit spans 2,600 square feet and has three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. Rana Williams with Keller Williams represented the seller. The transaction works out to about $3,200 per square foot.
📊 Residential: Investor Mo Kofman and his wife, interior designer Hilary Koyfman, sold a co-op at 200 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights for $7.5 million, or $2,500 per square foot. The buyer was Clara Molot. The three-bedroom home measures 3,000 square feet. Corcoran’s Leslie Marshall and Nick Hovsepian had the listing.
By the Numbers: CMBS issuance hits nearly 20-year peak in 2025
Issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities hit a nearly 20-year high last year.
Domestic, private-label originators issued $125.6 billion worth of CMBS loans across 173 deals, a 21 percent increase compared to the year before, according to data from Trepp. That dollar volume was the highest since 2007, when CMBS issuance reached $230.5 billion.
CMBS deals backed by office buildings had the highest balance issued last year, at nearly $29 billion. That was up year over year by almost 207 percent, underscoring the shifting demand for office properties as the asset class continues to emerge from the pandemic-era crash.
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