CMBS Investors Clamor for a Piece of a New Manhattan Skyscraper

  • SL Green’s One Vanderbilt boasts top ESG grades, asset quality
  • The $3 billion refi is one of the largest SASBs in a decade
One Vanderbilt Tower. Source: SL Green Realty Corp./Business Wire
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So you think demand for Manhattan offices is dying? Investors think those fears are overblown, at least for high-quality properties.

This week money managers said demand was strong for pieces of a massiveBloomberg Terminal $3 billion bond backed by a single mortgage tied to a brand new trophy office tower, One Vanderbilt, next to Grand Central Terminal. The bond offering, due to be sold next week, is the largest private-label commercial mortgage security since the Covid pandemic started, and the loan is one of the largest office mortgages to be bundled into a bond in the last decade.