Vacancy rate flat, even as Midtown South blossoms - [The Real Deal]

Commercial Slump - [New York Post]

LinkedIn ups size of its NY office by a third - [Crains’s New York]

Trade finance firm nearly doubles Times Square HQ - [Crains’s New York]

Blackstone hits the sell button - [Crains’s New York]

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