Real Estate Company Seeks to Add More Investors to Queens' Thriving Business Community

A new real estate venture in Queens seeks to create more office spaces in the borough as it benefits from a spur in sales and leasing demands for residential and industrial properties.

The company, Long Island-based Modern Spaces, launched a new commercial real estate division, which aims to transform Queens into a “destination for businesses,” according to a report on New York Daily News. The company is reported to focus on creating new office spaces to be able to tap Queens’ rapidly growing tech sector.

“There is definitely going to be a very strong demand from the tech industry in the next couple of years,” Evan Daniel, the division’s head said.

Daniel added that the construction of Cornell NYC Tech School in neighboring Roosevelt Island—west of Queens—would bring new businesses to the NYC borough.

Eric Benaim, Modern Spaces CEO, noted it will not be too hard for investors to find value in commercial real estate in “desirable areas” as they are modestly priced between $200 and $250 per buildable square foot, about 50 per cent lower than the prices per square foot in Brooklyn.

Surging rents in Manhattan’s residential market has become a boon for the borough, driving investors and home buyers to Queen’s inexpensive real estate market in August.

Citing research from Douglas Elliman Real Estate and Miller Samuel Inc., Bloomberg noted that apartment rents rose in August as new apartment spaces provide a new haven for tenants “seeking relief” from Manhattan rates. It added that lease contracts “quadrupled” in Queens even if rents declined. Manhattan’s median monthly rental prices averaged $3,470 in June, Bloomberg reported.    

The demand was so strong in Queens that inland developer Rockrose was able to fill a 709-unit Linc LIC tower with tenants last month, it also said.

Dollar sales volume for Queens’s commercial real estate meanwhile reached $3 billion this year, Realty firm Massey Knakal’s head of research, Adrian Mercado, told The Real Deal. Last year, the dollar sales volume reached $2.4 billion.

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