Robert Knakal

Bob Knakal founded Massey Knakal and is Chairman & CEO of BKREA

Kingsbridge Armory.
Retail · Columnists
New York City

New York’s Kingsbridge Armory Debacle — Or, When Ideology Replaces Common Sense

By Robert Knakal
Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger.
Industry · Technology
New York City

Artificial Intelligence Is Commercial Real Estate’s James Bond Moment

By Robert Knakal
An illustration of a person using a laptop computer to do data analysis.
Industry · Technology
New York City

AI Can Be Used to Measure Buyer Behavior — and to Represent Sellers Better

By Robert Knakal
Residential · Policy
New York City

New York’s Rent Guidelines Board Makeover Is Bad for the City’s Housing Stock

By Robert Knakal
Man's Hands With Shirt Sleeves Rolled Up Performing Playing Shell Game.
Industry · Columnists
New York City

The Hidden Conflicts of Full-Service CRE Brokerage — and Why Focus Matters

By Robert Knakal
Construction on a residential building in Queens.
Residential · Investments & Sales
New York City

The Math Always Wins: 485x’s Wage Triggers Are Choking Large-Scale NYC Housing

By Robert Knakal
Spanish-language social distancing safety sticker on a concrete footpath stating 'Espere aquí' [Wait here]
Industry · Columnists
New York City

Why International Footprints Don’t Sell NYC Investment Properties

By Robert Knakal
Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks with Nadege Romulus (right) as he visits her apartment in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Residential · Policy
New York City

Distress in New York’s Rent-Regulated Housing Is Simple Math

By Robert Knakal
An illustration of a business person wrestling with interest rates.
Industry · Finance
New York City

Waiting for Dramatically Lower Interest Rates Is a Mistake

By Robert Knakal
Elliott-Chelsea Houses.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

What the Opposition to Chelsea’s NYCHA Redevelopment Gets Wrong

By Robert Knakal
President Richard Nixon famously pressured his Fed chair, Arthur Burns.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

A Price-Fixing History Lesson Mayor-Elect Mamdani Sorely Needs to Learn

By Robert Knakal
A set of narrow apartment buildings, each a few stories and with fire escapes running down them.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

New York City’s Housing Crisis: Here Are the Policies and Moves For Solving It

By Robert Knakal
Apartment buildings in the Bronx.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

New York City Policymakers Continue to Get in the Way of Lower Rents

By Robert Knakal
An aerial shot down Manhattan with lots of buildings in view.
Office · Columnists
New York City

What I Learned From Writing ‘Selling Buildings’

By Robert Knakal
Bob Knakal.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

How to Execute a ‘Hostile Takeover’ of a New York City Co-op Building

By Robert Knakal
Bob Knakal.
Residential · Development
New York City

OK, I’ll Tell You How to Fix New York City’s Housing Crisis …

By Robert Knakal
Bob Knakal.
Residential · Columnists
New York City

New York’s 485x Multifamily Development Incentive: Why It Stinks

By Robert Knakal