From The Real Deal:The office market in Long Island City, Queens, weakened slightly in the last quarter of 2008 as vacancy rates rose and average asking rents dipped, according to a quarterly report released today by Newmark Knight Frank.
The vacancy rate in Long Island City rose to 8.6 in the fourth quarter of 2008 from 7.8 percent in the third quarter and 6.7 percent in the last quarter of 2007, the report showed. Average asking rents were down slightly to $25.11 in the fourth quarter 2008 from $25.25 the quarter before, but had fallen from a high of about $25.80 in the first quarter of 2008, it said.
The report said Class A office space was hard to find in the submarket. However in all office classes, Long Island City saw negative absorption of 55,000 square feet for the quarter and 128,000 square feet for the full year.
3 comments:
Its a lot worse than this.
We are told to hide the stats by playing with numbers and cut deals that are not made public.
LIC real estate is in free fall.
Some landlords are even talking about rentals or selling to anyone with bucks and no background check.
Afterall, their families don't live in those buildings.
"Afterall, their families don't live in those buildings."
This was for office space, not residential.
"this was for office space, not residential."
Oh, that's right. Landlords are all so very honest and
wouldn't rent office space out to someone to live in. Uhh, how do you think LIC had such a huge artist community back before all this rezoning and construction, back before you ever considered LIC or knew where it was? By illegal dwellings in commercial space; work studios/homes.
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