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The former Sony Building’s much-hyped and long-delayed revitalization is close to snagging its first big tenant. Boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners — perhaps the most expensive startup in Wall Street history when it launched with more than $1.1 billion in 2006 — is in late-stage talks to take about 125,000 square feet at the landmarked office tower at 550 Madison Avenue, sources told The Real Deal. The 13-year-old financial services firm, which has about

Investment sales in Manhattan and Brooklyn Manhattan investment sales rebounded in September with $2.47 billion in deals recorded — more than double August’s total and slightly above the 12-month average. The borough’s largest deal was Nightingale Properties & Wafra Capital Partners’ $909 million buy of the Coca-Cola Building (which Wafra flipped to Michael Shvo and Serdar Bilgili last month). Brooklyn’s investment sales market, meanwhile, hit an all-year high in September with $779 million in deals

Every weekday The Real Deal rounds up New York’s biggest real estate happenings. We update this page throughout the day, starting at 9 a.m. Please send any tips or deals to tips@therealdeal.com. This page was updated at 4:10 p.m. The 9/11 Tribute Museum is on its way out. Thor Equities, which owns the building that houses the 40,000-square-foot museum, has put the property on the market, seeking around $30 million, according to Crain’s New York Business. The

Charges have been dropped in a Rochester case against a tenant organizer who was arrested for trespassing. The case was dismissed by Judge Morrison in court last Wednesday, according to the activist, City-Wide Rochester Tenant Union organizer Ryan Acuff. Acuff was arrested Oct. 22 for trespassing in at Landsman Development Corporation’s E.L. Tower, a move that he and other organizers called “retaliatory” and “union-busting.” It was the second cause-related arrest this year of Acuff, a

UPDATED 11:15 a.m., Nov. 11: The National Association of Realtors’ board approved a controversial policy that could drastically cut down on pocket listings, a popular practice in the world of luxe real estate. A roughly 120-member NAR committee overwhelmingly approved the Clear Cooperation Policy on Saturday morning, sending it to the organization’s Executive Committee for consideration, according to Inman. On Monday, NAR’s board passed the policy 729-70. The policy would require brokers to submit a

Another new office building is going up in the Hudson Square neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, which has been undergoing a commercial revitalization. Trinity Real Estate filed an application for a 19-story, 252-foot-tall tower at 561 Greenwich Street, according to the Buildings Department filing from Friday. The nearly 260,000-square-foot project will mostly be offices with retail on the first level, according to the application. There also will be terraces on four levels of the building. An

After the dramatic ouster of former CEO Adam Neumann, WeWork may have found a new leader. The company is in talks with T-Mobile US Inc. chief executive John Legere to take over the position, according to the Wall Street Journal. The office-sharing startup’s parent company — We Company — is reportedly looking for someone who can right the ship after the firm’s failed IPO attempt led to Neumann’s resignation and SoftBank’s bailout of the company.

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Here’s the down-low on some of the residential deals that caught our eye in the Big Apple last week. Source: A TRD analysis of property records filed with the New York City Department of Finance from Nov. 4 to 8. Liv Tyler sold her four-story West Village townhouse at 255 West 11th Street for $17.45 million in an off-market deal, the New York Post reported. The deal hit public records Nov. 4. The actress sold

After a year of building resources, a new advocacy group for New York City’s residential agents is starting to make an imprint on the industry. The New York Residential Agent Continuum launched last November with just over 20 members and a loose plan for creating a network among peers. NYRAC has since grown to nearly 260 top agents; hired a staff, a lobbyist and a public relations firm; and is meeting with lawmakers and StreetEasy

The mandate became clear soon after the $2 billion JLL and HFF merger was announced: Even though JLL was buying its competitor, HFF would be the one taking over the combined capital markets business. And executives at the firm being acquired did not want the other’s top teams sticking around for much longer, according to several people familiar with the matter. “[We] weren’t a ‘cultural fit’ is the term they used,” one former JLL employee

Recent sales in New York include a Qatari LLC’s purchase of seven commercial condos in Midtown’s St. Regis building and Palard Realty Corp’s acquisition of a warehouse in Queens. Here are the three New York City mid-market investment sales that were made public last week. 1. A limited liability company based in Qatar purchased seven commercial condo units at 2 East 55th Street in Midtown from landlord Sarah Hays for $12 million. The building stands