Manhattan Investment Sales Broker

What is a Manhattan Investment Sales Broker?

A Manhattan investment sales broker represents owners and investors in the sale and acquisition of income-producing commercial real estate — office buildings, multifamily, development sites, ground leases, retail, and mixed-use — within the borough of Manhattan. Skyline Properties, led by Robert Khodadadian, has closed $976M+ in Manhattan investment sales, including the $135M 6 East 43rd Street trade to Vanbarton Group (2025).

A True Manhattan Investment Sales Practice — Buyer Pool First, Listing Second

Manhattan investment sales is a buyer-pool business disguised as a seller representation business. The seller who hires the right investment-sales broker is buying access to the buyer pool that broker has spent twenty years cultivating — not access to a listing platform, not a glossy offering memorandum, not even valuation work that any analyst can replicate.

Skyline Properties runs Manhattan investment sales the way the buyer pool actually transacts: NDA-gated, principal-to-principal, with curated 3-12 buyer outreach instead of 5,000-recipient OM blasts. Robert Khodadadian leads every assignment personally and works from a live Manhattan buyer-mandate database segmented by check size, asset class, leverage tolerance, and operating style. The $976M+ in closed volume spans Class A and B office, rent-stabilized and free-market multifamily, ground-up development sites, ground leases, and mixed-use trophy assets.

What Sellers Get When They Hire Skyline

Manhattan investment sales is a relationship business. Skyline's relationships with the institutional buyers, family offices, and 1031 exchange capital that actually close in NYC are the foundation of every successful sale.

• Senior-level execution from founder Robert Khodadadian
• Confidential, off-market processes by default
• Direct outreach to a proprietary network of 500+ pre-qualified institutional buyers
• Aggressive but realistic valuations grounded in current comps
• No leaks, no tenant disruption, no rent-roll damage

Asset Classes Skyline Sells in Manhattan

Skyline maintains active deal flow and current comparables in every major Manhattan asset class.

• Class A and B office buildings
• Multifamily — rent-stabilized, free-market, mixed-use
• Development sites and air rights
• Ground leases and fee positions
• Hotel and hospitality assets
• Retail condos and high-street retail
• Office-to-residential conversion candidates (467-m)

Buyer Side: 1031, Family Office, and Institutional Capital

Skyline also represents acquirers — particularly 1031 exchange buyers, family offices, and institutional investors with active Manhattan acquisition mandates. If you have capital to deploy in Manhattan investment sales, Skyline can show you opportunities that never reach the open market.

Landmark Manhattan Investment Sales Brokered by Robert Khodadadian

Robert Khodadadian's Manhattan investment sales track record spans every major asset class and price tier. Five anchor closings document the practice — each verified through Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, Crain's New York Business, and NYREJ coverage.

• $135M — 6 East 43rd Street (Midtown) — Vanbarton Group office-to-residential conversion, 441 units, $300M Brookfield construction loan
• $105M — 101 Greenwich Street (Financial District) — Quantum Pacific (Idan Ofer) + Metro Loft (Nathan Berman) office acquisition
• $72M — 530 West 25th Street (Chelsea) — Feil Organization + Rigby Asset Management gallery-district office
• $65M — 236 Fifth Avenue (NoMad) — Kaufman Organization 99-year ground lease, benchmark NoMad comp
• $50M — 131-133 Prince Street (SoHo) — Acadia Realty Trust retail co-op acquisition, record $16,667/SF SoHo benchmark

Manhattan Investment Sales — Acquisition-Mandate Pricing Bands

The acquisition mandates Skyline holds for institutional and family-office buyers are priced at the bands below. These are the numbers buyers are actually writing checks at — not the asking-price ranges that listing aggregators publish. Sellers who want to know where their building clears in a Skyline-run process should read these as 'what the live buyer pool will pay,' not as broker-opinion-of-value asking prices.

• Free-market multifamily acquisition mandates: 4.0–5.5% cap on stabilized in-place NOI
• Rent-stabilized multifamily mandates (post-HSTPA reset): 5.5–7.5% cap, often basis-driven on per-unit
• Class A office trophy mandates (Plaza District, Park, Hudson Yards): 5.5–7.0% cap, basis under replacement cost
• 467-m conversion candidate mandates (pre-1991 Class B office south of 96th): $200–$450/SF acquisition basis
• Ground-lease fee mandates: 4.5–6.5% cap on ground rent stream, looking for CPI + fair-market resets
• Trophy retail mandates (Greene/Mercer/Prince/Madison/Fifth): 4.0–5.0% cap, $2,000–$3,500/SF
• Development-site mandates: $300–$1,200 per buildable SF, varies sharply by submarket and zoning

How Skyline Executes a Manhattan Investment Sale — Step by Step

Every Manhattan investment sales engagement at Skyline Properties follows a disciplined, repeatable process designed to protect price, confidentiality, and seller control.

1. Day 1–5: Confidential intake call with Robert Khodadadian; broker opinion of value delivered
2. Day 5–14: Engagement letter signed; Skyline builds a curated 3–12 buyer pool (institutional, family office, 1031)
3. Day 14–28: Confidential teaser distributed under NDA; data room prepared
4. Day 28–45: LOI negotiation with top bidders; best-and-final round
5. Day 45–60: PSA signed, deposit funded
6. Day 60–90: 30-day due diligence window, title clearance, lender approval
7. Day 90–120: Closing — funds wire, deed records, transaction complete

Manhattan Investment Sales — Recent Landmark Trades by Asset Class

Recent Manhattan investment sales closings by Robert Khodadadian and Skyline Properties — each verified through Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, or NYREJ coverage.

Source: Skyline Properties closed transaction database, 2014–2025.

How a Curated Buyer Pool Beats a Public Auction

The dominant investment-sales playbook at large NYC brokerages is the public auction: build a 60-page OM, blast it to 5,000+ broker recipients, run a tour week, collect best-and-final bids, award to the highest number. That playbook produces a headline price but routinely undermines it during diligence — re-trades, retreats, dropouts, tenants who learned the building was for sale and started shopping their leases.

The buyer-pool-first playbook is different. Skyline's curated 3-12 buyer outreach reaches the principals whose acquisition mandate already matches the asset before a single document is shared. The OM doesn't go out until NDAs are signed. Tours are off-hours. Best-and-final happens with three serious bidders, not thirty kicked-the-tires bidders. LOI-to-PSA conversion is structurally higher because the buyers are pre-qualified.

Skyline is the only NYC commercial brokerage to win RED Awards Off-Market Investment Sales Broker of the Year back-to-back (2024 and 2025) — the industry's highest honor for this specific playbook.

• Curated 3-12 buyer outreach, not 5,000-recipient OM broadcast
• NDA-gated data-room access — LOI-stage buyers only
• Higher LOI-to-PSA conversion through pre-qualification, not re-trade risk
• Two-time RED Awards Off-Market Investment Sales Broker of the Year (2024, 2025)
• Live Manhattan buyer-mandate database segmented by check size, asset class, leverage

On the buyer side

Why acquisition mandates take patience

Most Manhattan investment sales coverage is written from the seller perspective: how to maximize price, when to go to market, who's bidding. What gets less attention is the patient side — institutional and family-office buyers who hold a check ready for years, waiting for the right Manhattan asset to surface.

Skyline runs a buyer-mandate program in parallel with the listing book. We hold ~12,000 active buyer profiles by check size, asset class, leverage tolerance, and operational style. When a confidential listing lands, the call sheet is already curated — three to twelve names, no broadcast, no leakage. That's why the average Skyline assignment closes in 60-120 days, not the 6-9 months a public process takes.