Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Jewish Business News

Real Estate

Clipper Equity’s David Bistricer to form REIT

Developer has raised $144 million in equity to date; Lorber, Verrone on board of directors

L-R Howard Lorber ,   David Bistricer - Real Estate

 

Brooklyn developer David Bistricer is forming a real estate investment trust to fund future acquisitions, The Real Deal has learned.

Bistricer, who’s made a series of major acquisitions in recent years with frequent collaborator Joseph Chetrit, said he has raised $144 million in equity so far.
The REIT is to be called Clipper Realty Inc., according to regulatory filings.
It will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange sometime in the “next few months” with a focus on “strategic, value-add” investments, ” Bistricer told TRD in an interview Tuesday.

Please help us out :
Will you offer us a hand? Every gift, regardless of size, fuels our future.
Your critical contribution enables us to maintain our independence from shareholders or wealthy owners, allowing us to keep up reporting without bias. It means we can continue to make Jewish Business News available to everyone.
You can support us for as little as $1 via PayPal at office@jewishbusinessnews.com.
Thank you.

Some of Clipper’s current assets may be folded into the REIT, he added, but declined to say which ones. Clipper’s portfolio includes trophy towers such as the former Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue and the former Cabrini Medical Center in Gramercy, both condominium conversion projects owned in partnership with the Chetrit Group.
The lion’s share of the equity raised would be used for “future acquisitions, ” Bistricer said.

Read the full story, click here

The Real Deal , By E.B. Solomont

 

David Bistricer

70 Battery Park Place

David Bistricer’s Clipper Equity is about to buy

Manhattan’s River watch rental apartment building

for $73.6 million, according to The Real Deal.

The only issue yet to be resolved is the approval

for the financing More…

Hotel Bossert

– The 106 year old landmark hotel building

is currently undergoing renovations so that

it can be restored as a hotel after more than

thirty years of neglect. – The grand reopening

of the Hotel Bossert, now owned More…

 

Newsletter



Advertisement

You May Also Like

World News

In the 15th Nov 2015 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:   ·         A new Israeli treatment brings hope to relapsed leukemia...

Entertainment

The Movie The Professional is what made Natalie Portman a Lolita.

Travel

After two decades without a rating system in Israel, at the end of 2012 an international tender for hotel rating was published.  Invited to place bids...

VC, Investments

You may not become a millionaire, but there is a lot to learn from George Soros.