The Confidential Disposition Guide

Who This Guide Is For

Most owners of Manhattan commercial real estate do not decide to sell in a vacuum. They ask the professionals they already trust — their real estate attorney, their accountant, their family-office advisor, their estate planner. If you are that professional, you are often the first to know a sale is being considered, and the most important voice in how it is handled.

This guide gives you something concrete to hand your client: a clear explanation of how a confidential disposition works, what protects their interests, and a no-cost, no-obligation first step. You stay in the advisory seat. We handle the brokerage.

When a Confidential Disposition Is the Right Call

Confidentiality is not a luxury in these situations — it is a fiduciary protection. A public listing can damage the very value your client is trying to realize, and in sensitive contexts it can create problems that outlast the sale itself.

• Estate and succession — a death, an aging owner, or a generational transfer where public exposure invites unsolicited pressure and distress narratives.
• Partnership or LLC dissolution — buyout or wind-down situations where a quiet, controlled sale prevents disputes from spilling into public view.
• Trust and fiduciary sales — where a documented, defensible process matters more than a noisy auction headline.
• Income-sensitive assets — buildings where leaking a sale to tenants, employees, or lenders erodes the cash flow a buyer is paying for.
• Reputation or privacy needs — owners who simply do not want their name, their building, or their plans in the press.

How a Confidential Disposition Works — Step by Step

A confidential off-market process is not less rigorous than a public one — it is more controlled. Every institutional step (valuation, vetting, LOI, PSA, diligence, closing) still happens; what changes is who knows and when.

1. Confidential Broker Opinion of Value — Skyline assesses the asset and models both off-market and broad-market net-proceeds scenarios. No marketing, no comps that signal a process, no paper trail until your client decides to engage.
2. Curated buyer identification — a small, pre-vetted pool of principals most likely to close at the right number, each under NDA before any identifying information is shared.
3. Negotiated LOI — terms agreed directly between principals, with your client controlling timing and which buyers see the asset.
4. Purchase & sale agreement — full institutional documentation, with your continued involvement as counsel/advisor.
5. Due diligence — conducted discreetly, with tours arranged to avoid tenant disruption.
6. Closing — the first public signal, if any, comes after the deal is done — and only with your client's approval.

What you and your client get — and what it costs

The Broker Opinion of Value is free, confidential, and carries no obligation. There is no engagement required to receive it, and nothing your client sees commits them to a sale. If they choose to proceed, Skyline's sell-side fee is a negotiated success fee agreed in writing before any work begins and earned only on a closing your client accepts.

For you as the advisor, the value is straightforward: a senior, conflict-free brokerage partner who will not put your client's building in play prematurely, will keep you in the loop, and will hand the relationship back to you when the transaction closes. We are brokers, not advisors — we do not compete with your role.

Why Advisors Refer Clients to Skyline

Skyline's entire practice is built around the confidential, senior-led process this guide describes. That focus is exactly what makes the firm a safe referral.

• Senior-led — Robert Khodadadian, Founder, President & CEO, personally handles every assignment. No junior team running your client's deal.
• Conflict-free — a pure investment-sales specialist, not a multi-line platform with competing internal interests.
• Discretion as the default — the majority of Skyline's $976M+ closed volume never appeared in a public listing.
• Proven across asset classes — office, multifamily, mixed-use, retail, development sites, and ground leases.
• Recognized — the 2025 RED Awards Off-Market Investment Sales Broker of the Year.

The first step is a conversation that stays between us

If you have a client who owns Manhattan commercial real estate and is even thinking about a sale, the right first move is a confidential Broker Opinion of Value. It costs nothing, commits no one, and gives your client a real number — and the off-market versus broad-market net-proceeds comparison — before any decision is made.

Request it on your client's behalf, or introduce us directly. We will not market the property, will not signal a process, and will not create a paper trail until your client decides they want to engage. You can reach Robert Khodadadian directly at (212) 537-9239 or info@skylineprp.com.