The Confidential Disposition Guide

Who This Guide Is For

Most owners of Manhattan commercial real estate don't decide to sell on their own. They ask the professionals they already trust: the real estate attorney, the accountant, the family-office advisor, the estate planner. If you are that professional, you often hear about a possible sale first, and your view carries the most weight in how it gets handled.

This guide gives you something concrete to hand your client. It explains how a confidential disposition works and what protects their interests, and it offers a first step that costs nothing and commits them to nothing. You stay in the advisory seat. We handle the brokerage.

When a Confidential Disposition Is the Right Call

In these situations confidentiality is a fiduciary protection. A public listing can damage the very value your client is trying to realize, and in a sensitive situation it can cause problems that outlast the sale.

• 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: a buyout or wind-down, where a quiet, controlled sale keeps the dispute out of public view.
• Trust and fiduciary sales, where a documented, defensible process matters more than a noisy auction headline.
• Income-sensitive assets: buildings where word of a sale reaching tenants, employees or lenders erodes the cash flow a buyer is paying for.
• Reputation or privacy: owners who don't 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 every bit as rigorous as a public one, and 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 Properties assesses the asset and models net proceeds two ways, off-market and broad-market. Nothing is marketed, no comps are pulled in a way that signals a process, and there is no paper trail until your client decides to engage.
2. Curated buyer identification. We pick a small, pre-vetted group of principals most likely to close at the right number, and each signs an NDA before seeing anything that identifies the property.
3. Negotiated LOI. Terms are agreed directly between principals, and your client controls the timing and which buyers see the asset.
4. Purchase & sale agreement. Full institutional documentation, with you still involved as counsel or advisor.
5. Due diligence. Run discreetly, with tours scheduled so tenants aren't disrupted.
6. Closing. The first public signal, if there is one, 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 and confidential, and it carries no obligation. Your client doesn't have to engage us to receive it, and nothing they see commits them to a sale. If they choose to proceed, Skyline Properties' 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 simple. You get a senior, conflict-free brokerage partner who won't put your client's building in play early, who keeps you informed, and who hands the relationship back to you when the deal closes. We are brokers. We don't compete with your advisory role.

Why Advisors Refer Clients to Skyline Properties

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

• Senior-led: Robert Khodadadian, Founder, President & CEO, personally handles every assignment. No junior team runs your client's deal.
• Conflict-free: a pure investment-sales specialist, without the competing internal interests of a multi-line platform.
• Discreet by default: most of Skyline Properties' $976M+ closed volume never appeared in a public listing.
• Closed 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.

When to Call Skyline Properties: The Advisor Checklist

If your client checks even one of the boxes below, call Skyline Properties. It costs nothing, commits your client to nothing, and nothing is exposed until they decide to engage.

• Your client owns Manhattan commercial real estate and has mentioned selling, even in passing.
• An estate, trust, or succession event is approaching and the property may need to be liquidated.
• A partnership or LLC is dissolving and the real estate must be disposed of quietly.
• Your client wants to know what their building is worth without anyone learning it may be for sale.
• Tenants, lenders, or competitors must not learn about a potential sale.
• Your client has received an unsolicited offer and needs an independent valuation before responding.
• A 1031 exchange deadline is approaching and replacement property sourcing is needed.
• Your client holds a ground lease (fee or leasehold) and wants to understand disposition options.
• An office building your client owns may be a candidate for 467-m residential conversion, whether sold to a converter or converted in-house.
• You want a conflict-free brokerage partner you can trust with a sensitive real estate matter.

Quick referral, no commitment

Request a Private Value Opinion for a Client

If your client owns Manhattan commercial real estate and you want a confidential read on what it is worth, submit a short request. Skyline Properties will deliver a private Broker Opinion of Value, free, confidential and without obligation, usually within five business days.

You can request it on your client's behalf or introduce us directly. Include the property address (or cross streets), approximate size, asset class, and any context that helps us scope the valuation. Robert Khodadadian personally reviews every inbound. Nothing becomes public without your client's explicit approval.

Start at sky-nyc.com/bov-request, email info@skylineprp.com, or call (212) 537-9239. Reference this guide and we will prioritize your request.

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 and commits no one. Before any decision is made, your client gets a real number plus the off-market versus broad-market net-proceeds comparison.

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.