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Coffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast2/24/2025: Episode 104 - 2024 Multifamily Year in Review featuring Victor Sozio & Matt SwerdlowJoin Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, as he delves into Ariel’s 2024 Multifamily Research Report with Founding Partner Victor Sozio and Senior Director of Capital Services Matt Swerdlow. In 2024, New York City’s multifamily market saw $8.91 billion in sales across 1,107 transactions, marking year-over-year increases of 14% in dollar volume and 4% in transactions. Rent-stabilized properties, which comprised 29% of the market, faced continued pressure due to high leverage, rising expenses and the lingering impact of HSTPA—leading some owners to consider 610 amendments for affordable housing conversions. Meanwhile, free market assets dominated in Manhattan and Brooklyn and attract...2025-02-2414 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast10/29/2024: Episode 99 - Q3 2024 New York City Multifamily Quarter in Review Featuring Victor Sozio & Matthew DzbanekShimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director in Capital Markets, explore trends in the multifamily market and discuss Ariel’s Q3 2024 Multifamily Quarter in Review New York City research report in this podcast.Among the topics: there were $2.33 billion in multifamily sales in Q3 2024, a 17% decline from Q2 2024; of the total sales, $1.27 billion of the trades were in Manhattan below 96th Street; multifamily assets are offering investors a buying opportunity today because values have fallen across all segments; mortgage maturities are forcing sales, while sales based on...2024-10-2911 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast8/8/2024: Episode 93 - Q2 2024 New York City Multifamily Quarter in Review featuring Victor Sozio and Matt SwerdlowShimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses Ariel’s latest multifamily research report with Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director in Capital Markets. Mortgage maturities were one of the drivers in the multifamily market in the second quarter with dollar volume jumping 108% quarter-over-quarter to $2.83 billion and transactions rising 4% to 265. The future looks even better for the multifamily market as Treasuries have fallen below 4% and the market expects the Fed to cut rates at its next meeting in September. More information is available in Ariel’s research Q2 2024 Multifamily Quarter in Review: New York City...2024-08-0813 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast4/25/2024: Episode 90 - Unpacking NY State’s New Housing Policy featuring Victor Sozio, Michael A. Tortorici, and Sean R. KellyIn this roundtable discussion, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his Partners Victor Sozio, Michael A. Tortorici and Sean R. Kelly unpack the new housing policy included in the New York State FY 2025 Budget.Overall, the Ariel team sees the new initiatives as positive, especially for housing creation, but challenging for existing multifamily owners because some free market units will now be regulated and increased apartment improvement allowances for rent regulated units won’t be high enough to make a meaningful difference except possibly in the outer boroughs.To re...2024-04-2417 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast1/29/2024: Episode 84 - Multifamily Year in Review 2023 featuring Victor Sozio & Matt DzbanekAriel Property Advisors’ Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director, Capital Markets, join Shimon Shkury, President and Founder, for this discussion on how high interest rates, regulations and bank failures contributed to the lackluster performance in the New York City multifamily market in 2023. According to Ariel Property Advisors’ Multifamily Year in Review New York City, the multifamily sector in New York City experienced a notable downturn, with total dollar volume of $7.4 billion spread across 1,036 transactions, a year-over-year drop of 52% and 35%, respectively. However, the anticipation of interest rate cuts and an influx of new capital is already leading to r...2024-01-2910 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast11/6/2023: Episode 83 - Q3 2023 New York City Multifamily Quarter in Review Featuring Victor Sozio & Matt SwerdlowMultifamily sales in New York City totaled $1.55 billion in Q3 2023, a 56% decline in dollar volume from Q2 2023, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Q3 2023 Multifamily Quarter in Review. Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Ariel Founding Partner Victor Sozio, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Markets, unpack the numbers and explain what to expect following the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the petition brought by CHIP and RSA against NYC’s rent stabilization laws and how the FDIC’s sale of the Signature portfolio will affect the market.2023-11-0615 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast8/15/2023: Episode 79: Q2 2023 New York City Multifamily Quarter in Review Featuring Victor Sozio & Matt DzbanekMultifamily real estate sales in New York City experienced a significant 242% increase in total dollar volume during the second quarter compared to the first quarter with 295 transactions totaling $3.91 billion, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Q2 2023 Multifamily Quarter in Review report. Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and his guests Ariel Founding Partner Victor Sozio, and Matt Dzbanek, Senior Director, Capital Markets, explore the story behind the data in this podcast on the New York City multifamily market. 2023-08-1513 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast4/27/2023: Episode 72 - Free Market Buildings Power NYC Multifamily Sales in Q1 2023 featuring Victor SozioOn his latest podcast, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, welcomes Ariel Partner Victor Sozio and explores first quarter trends in the multifamily market. Dollar volume totaled $2.11 billion in Q1 2023, a 39% drop year-over-year, and predominantly free market buildings accounted for 78% of the sales. Headwinds discussed include bank closures, which are causing a credit crunch, rising operating costs for rental buildings and the failure of Albany to pass key legislation that would help alleviate NYC’s housing shortage. For more information about the multifamily market, see Ariel’s Q1 2023 Multifamily Quarter in Review New York City.2023-04-2710 min
DiscoveringCREVictor Sozio: Investment Sales Brokerage | Discovering Commercial Real Estate Podcast #21Victor Sozio is one of the Founding Partners of Ariel Property Advisors. Mr. Sozio’s primary responsibility is to originate and execute the sale of commercial real estate transactions throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
Mr. Sozio plays a pivotal role at the company, balancing his management responsibilities as a partner overseeing internal strategic initiatives with his consistent top investment sales performance. Impressively, he is one of New York City’s leading commercial real estate advisors, arranging the sale of more than 1,000 properties valued at over $5.2 billion during his career.
Mr. Sozio has maintained a heavy presence in t...2023-03-2046 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast2/2/2023: Episode 64 - NYC Multifamily Sales Enjoy Best Year Since 2016 featuring Victor SozioThe New York City multifamily sector saw a major resurgence in 2022 with $16 billion in total dollar volume for all multifamily properties (small buildings, buildings with 6-9 units and 10+ units) and $13.2 billion for buildings featuring 10 or more residential units. In this episode, Shimon Shkury, President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors, and Founding Partner Victor Sozio discuss the findings in Ariel’s recently released 2022 Multifamily Year in Review research report, which highlights sales of buildings with 10 or more units citywide and in Manhattan, Northern Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. They also explore the headwinds and opportunities facing the multifamily ma...2023-02-0213 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast11/3/2022: Episode 60 - What’s Ahead for NYC's Multifamily Market? featuring Victor Sozio and Matt SwerdlowShimon Shkury, Founder and President of Ariel Property Advisors, discusses the latest trends in New York City’s multifamily market with Victor Sozio, Founding Partner, and Matt Swerdlow, Senior Director, Capital Services. 2022-11-0211 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast4/28/2022: Episode 52 - Q1'22 Multifamily Sales Report featuring Victor SozioAriel Property Advisors’ President Shimon Shkury and Founding Partner Victor Sozio discuss how inflation and rising interest rates are affecting different segments of the multifamily market.Although contract signings are continuing, the multifamily sector has become more turbulent in the last 60 days primarily because interest rate hikes are triggering renegotiations and repricing. This period of volatility has injected a sense of urgency in the market as investors seek to close deals and line up financing before additional increases. As rents have rebounded, Vic notes that he is seeing more of an appetite for luxury buildings than 18 months ago and that fr...2022-04-2709 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast1/31/2022: Episode 49 - Year End Multifamily Report 2021 featuring Victor Sozio· President of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Victor Sozio, EVP Investment Sales at Ariel. · Victor Sozio and Shimon Shkury sat down for our latest Coffee & Cap Rates podcast to discuss the multifamily trends in New York City.2022-02-0207 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast11/2/2021: Episode 45 - Q3 Multifamily Sales Report featuring Victor SozioPresident of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a discussion with Executive Vice President Victor Sozio.Discussions among Shimon and Victor include a reflection on the activity in the multifamily market in New York City over the past quarter and insight into what drove the trends and transactions, along with highlighting key transactions that contributed to the dollar volume traded. Also, they spoke about their outlook on what is to come in the fourth quarter of 2021 and into 2022. 2021-11-0809 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast7/29/2021: Episode 38 - Coffee & Cap Rates July 2021 Webinar Panel Discussion featuring Victor Sozio, Michael Tortorici, Sean Kelly, and Matt SwerdlowPresident of Ariel Property Advisors Shimon Shkury conducts a panel discussion between Executive Vice President's Victor Sozio and Michael Tortorici, Senior Director Sean Kelly and Director Matt SwerdlowDiscussions among the panelists include current commercial real estate trends, capital markets opportunities and outlook for the next 6 months2021-07-3028 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast5/3/2021: Episode 34 - Taking Inventory with Victor SozioVictor Sozio led a very active first quarter of 2021 bringing 24 buildings, approximately 1,500 units and 1.5M SF into contract. Victor's current inventory on the market includes over 126 properties and 4,300 units. Listen to the podcast for a snapshot of the market and anecdotal information on these listings, contracts, and closings.2021-05-0307 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast2/23/2021: Episode 30 - Pockets of Strength featuring Victor Sozio, Michael Tortorici and Sean KellyPresident Shimon Shkury welcomes Victor Sozio, Executive Vice President; Michael Tortorici, Executive Vice President and Sean Kelly, Senior Director, to discuss the pockets of strength in the New York City commercial real estate marketTopics include affordable housing, multifamily, industrial and technology2021-02-2305 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast10/20/2020: Episode 23 - NYC 2020 CRE Market Update featuring Victor SozioAriel Property Advisors founders Shimon Shkury and Victor Sozio have the hard data and trusted insight on what you need to know from 2020 including total dollar and transaction volumeShimon and Victor discuss what to expect through the end of the year and in 2021You can watch this interactive episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqXtkUqpGE&t=5s2020-10-2011 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast7/28/20: Episode 19 - NYC Commercial Real Estate Investment Sales Data 1H2020 featuring Victor Sozio and Michael TortoriciPresident Shimon Shkury and Executive Vice President's Victor Sozio and Michael Tortorici analyze the investment sales figures for the first half of 2020 in NYCTransactions are limited and lagging indicators of the market because the properties were in contract at the end of 2019 or prior to Covid-19Ariel Property Advisors has released its mid-year Investment Sales Research Reports for 1H2020, you can find the reports on the company website: http://arielpa.nyc/investor-relations/research-reports2020-07-2811 minCoffee & Cap Rates: Commercial Real Estate Podcast4/20/20: Episode 12 - COVID-19 NYC Investment Sales Update featuring Victor SozioShimon Shkury, President of Ariel Property Advisors, talks with Victor Sozio, Executive Vice President at Ariel Property Advisors, about what they are seeing in the commercial real estate market today, which has been heavily affected by Covid-19The two discuss the three buckets of capital available in the current market2020-04-2009 min