Lev’s Pulse on the Market
New York City Multifamily Deal Activity Will Soon Spike — Even If Mamdani Wins
If you’ve been doing deals in New York long enough, you know how the city works: After every election, the market exhales, recalibrates, and gets back to business. Right now, we’re in that familiar “hold-your-breath” phase. Bid/ask spre...
What the Q2 Numbers Tell Us About New York City Multifamily Going Forward
By Lev Mavashev After two years of choppy waters, Q2 tells a clearer story: New York City’s multifamily market is moving again—and fast. Deal count surged to 297 transactions, marking a 29.1% jump from the previous quarter and a 52.3% in...
NYC Multifamily Finds Its Stride in 2025: Transactions are happening, Momentum Is Back
By Lev Mavashev, Principal, Alpha Realty The first half of 2025 has given us something we haven’t seen in a while in New York City multifamily: momentum. After two years of uncertainty, deal velocity is back, capital is flowing across all ...
When the Stock Market Panics, NYC Multifamily …
The stock market doesn’t like surprises — and last month’s “Liberation Day tariffs” announcement sent it into full-blown panic mode. A 10% blanket tariff on nearly all imports, with some countries slapped with duties as high as 60%, a...
Foreign Capital Reignites NYC Multifamily: Why Global Investors Are Betting Big on the Market Now
After a quiet few years, foreign capital is officially back in New York City’s multifamily market — and this time, it is coming in excited. We have been tracking the uptick closely, and over the last few months, we have closed multiple de...
Manhattan vs. the Boroughs: Where the Smart Multifamily Money Is Going in ’25
By Lev Mavashev “The reason New York thrives is because it wins the fight for the smartest, most energetic — whatever adjectives you want to use — people.” As New York City’s multifamily market rebounds from years of turbulence, inv...
