The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Waterton
October 26, 2025
By Rebecca Picciotto
An article in The Wall Street Journal explores how apartment rents nationally are advancing at their slowest pace in years because glut of new units is taking longer to absorb than expected. This is due to a high unemployment rate, rising rents and other factors. David Schwartz, chief executive of real-estate investment firm Waterton, offers expert insight to the story. See full article here.
Koeppel Rosen
October 21, 2025
By Paul Bubny
Koeppel Rosen LLC, leasing and management agent for the Rosen family portfolio, and stewards for a number of historic Manhattan office properties, has secured a new 3,715-square-foot, seven-year, seven-month office/showroom lease for Chelsea Arts Tile + Stone LLC at 245 W. 29th St. in Midtown South’s Chelsea neighborhood. Max Koeppel, director of leasing at Koeppel Rosen, represented ownership in-house. Michael Nazarian with Norman Bobrow & Co., Inc. represented the tenant.
RFR
October 19, 2025
By Steve Cuozzo
The New York Post real estate column reports on a new, 33,231-SF long-term office tenant at RFR’s 190 Bowery. Industrious, a leading workplace experience outfit, will use the Bowery location as its flagship. The ground-floor retail space is occupied by trendy clothing store Supreme. RFR was repped by Camhi and an in-house team as well as a JLL team; Natalie Levine acted for Industrious in-house. See the full NY Post article here.
Landmark Properties
October 17, 2025
By Dees Stribling
In a joint venture with Golden Primera and Peninsula Investments, Landmark Properties has acquired an an 11.2-acre site in State College, Pa. for development of The Retreat at Westerly, a 546-bed student housing project planned near Pennsylvania State University. The off-campus, cottage-style apartment community will have a mix of townhomes and garden-style apartment buildings, each of which offer two- to-five bedroom living arrangements. Learn more about The Retreat at Westerly.
Ariel Property Advisors
October 16, 2025
By Paul Bubny
In Ariel Property Partners’ Q3 2025 Multifamily Quarter in Review report, we learn that New York City’s multifamily investment sales market gained momentum in the third quarter, rising to $2.55 billion in dollar volume, up 14% quarter-over-quarter and 17% year-over-year. Transactions totaled 331, up 7% from Q2 2025 and up 23% from Q3 2024. Nearly half the Q3 dollar volume was in Manhattan, where sales were dominated by well-capitalized investors targeting high-value free-market multifamily assets. See the full report here.
Landmark Properties
October 16, 2025
by Janaire Einstein Francisco
Landmark Properties has closed on its first land acquisition in the United Kingdom, securing a prime site on William Road in central London, the future home of a 225-bed purpose-built student housing development. Landmark is partnering with Centurion Corporation, a leading provider of student accommodation in the UK, on the William Road scheme. Learn more about Landmark’s first UK development deal in Green Street News.
Grosvenor
October 16, 2025
The Canadian federal government has made an investment of more than C$763 million ($543 million) into Grosvenor’s Brentwood Block for the construction of nearly 1,300 housing units in Burnaby, British Columbia, through its Apartment Construction Loan Program. Brentwood Block is a multi-phase master plan community on a 7.9-acre site that encompasses an entire city block. The project will provide 1,279 rental units, 451 condominiums, and 160,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. The site will also be home to a new City of Burnaby community center, extensive public plazas and outdoor amenity spaces. Learn more about the investment here.
Marx Realty
October 15, 2025
By Amanda Schiavo
Vialto Group, a private equity firm, has negotiated an additional 10,000 square feet at Marx Realty’s 545 Madison Avenue, bringing the firm’s total footprint to 17,500 square feet across two full floors. Tara Stacom of Cushman & Wakefield represented Marx Realty in this deal, while C&W’s David Dusek represented Vialto Group. 545 Madison Avenue is also known as the Baccarat Building, thanks to a co-branding partnership between the lifestyle house Baccarat and Marx Realty. Learn more about 545 Madison and the Vialto Group deal.
Koeppel Rosen
October 8, 2025
By Paul Bubny
Koeppel Rosen has secured a new 8,569- square-foot lease for Frostbyte Technologies, Inc., d/b/a Dripos, at 151 W. 26th St. in Manhattan. A startup that builds an all-in-one software platform for coffee shops, Dripos is relocating from 45 E. 20th St., where it occupied 5,000 square feet across two floors. The company will move into a portion of the 10th floor at 151 W. 26th. Max Koeppel, director of leasing at Koeppel Rosen, represented ownership in-house. Robert G. Mitchell of Byrnam Wood, LLC represented Dripos. Learn more about the deal.