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Commercial Real Estate work in New York
New York carries one of the deepest commercial real estate markets in the country, and the search demand follows the stock. Brokerages, leasing teams, investment sales shops and property managers across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens compete for searches around office space, retail space, industrial space and investment property. The paid search on terms like office space Manhattan or retail lease Brooklyn is expensive, which tells you the demand is real and that firms are paying to sit in front of it. Owner operators and independent brokerages make up much of the field, alongside the large national firms. The searches themselves are local: people type a submarket, a building type and a requirement, and they expect a firm that knows that block.
