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CBRE: Bigger, Longer Leases Define Downtown in Q2

NEW YORK CITY-Leasing velocity in Lower Manhattan for the second quarter of2011 has already surpassed 2010's final tally, CB Richard Ellis officials said at a press briefing at 7 World Trade Center Monday morning.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on July 11, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-Following a flurry of significant deals in the spring and early summer, Lower Manhattan has become the leading submarket in the city year-to-date, CB Richard Ellis officials conceded at a press briefing at 7 World Trade Center Monday morning. At the halfway point of 2011, CBRE observed that large New York institutions and beginning to take large, long-term leases once again, driven by an appetite for new construction and state-of-the-art services.

“There have been some tremendously large transactions occur in the first half of this year, but the fact of the matter is, by all measures that we can observe, we are in for a very strong velocity here in 2011,” said Matthew Van Buren, executive managing director of CBRE’s New York office, sharing the firm’s second quarter MarketView data. “It may actually approach its highest levels or even exceed them for the last 10 years.”

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