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The Mark

Started by sidelinesitter
over 15 years ago
Posts: 1596
Member since: Mar 2009
This uber-high end conversion with only a handful of units may not be very relevant to the market that we SE plebes follow, but there does appear to be some entertainment potential here. "The Alexico Group has reached out to Goldman Sachs for financing to buy back its mortgage debt on its Upper East Side co-op conversion at the Mark Hotel in an effort to pull the struggling property back above... [more]
Response by NWT
over 14 years ago
Posts: 6643
Member since: Sep 2008

The lender has scheduled a foreclosure auction of the unsold shares, for 40 of the 42 apartments, on July 26th. The 1400+ shares will be sold in one block.

The Mark is leased from the Goldman heirs, and the co-op owns 38% of the leasehold interest. The hotel and the co-op have a complicated co-tenancy agreement, and the hotel has been renting out the apartments (or trying to) while this mess has dragged along.

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Response by Bill7284
over 14 years ago
Posts: 631
Member since: Feb 2009

At more than 4K psf and common charges exceeding 4K for a studio with a purchase price over 2M, well denial is a river in Egypt.

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Response by ab_11218
over 14 years ago
Posts: 2017
Member since: May 2009

i'd expect them to fetch $0 sale price as the maintenance is just about what rent would be (-/+) for a high end studio.

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