“You’re getting a call from someone who controls an asset that has no liquidity, and it’s a potential conversion or a piece of land,” Post Brothers co-founder Matthew Pestronk said. “Throw out the lowest number that they won’t be insulted by, say you need this much time to execute, and you’re getting answers of, ‘Huh, let us think about […]
Philadelphia developer Post Brothers bought the older 2100 M St. NW building for a potential residential conversion earlier this year.
While developments like Post Brothers’ $500 million, 1,100-apartment Piazza expansion are nearing completion, dozens of others are kicking off or in the works.
"Even in this environment, there are buyers of rent-stabilized buildings and lenders who make loans on them, because if the underlying properties are valued at cap rates near today's interest rates, they would be very safe investments to own as a loan or as real estate in the case the loans are not performing," Matt Pestronk, president and co-founder of Post Brothers, a real estate developer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, told Reuters.
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