Otteau Group, influential appraisal and advisory firm, promotes Montferrat to partner

The Otteau Group has elevated Connor Montferrat to partner, citing his contributions, leadership and service to clients since he joined the Matawan-based firm in 2017.

Jeffrey, Christopher Otteau sell interests in Hudson Atlantic Realty after firm’s 2021 founding

Jeffrey Otteau and Christopher Otteau of Otteau Group Inc. have sold their stakes in Hudson Atlantic Realty Advisors, a commercial real estate brokerage they helped found in 2021.   

An uneven recovery? NAIOP panelists see different paths for different asset types in 2024

The state’s industrial and office sectors both faced headwinds in 2023, but the year ahead for each asset class may be decidedly different. That was a key takeaway last week from panelists at NAIOP New Jersey’s Annual Meeting and Commercial Real Estate Outlook, who noted that demand for warehouse and logistics space has normalized after a record-breaking run during the pandemic. Office landlords, meantime, are still grappling with shrinking corporate footprints and remote work policies, further straining submarkets that are both aging and oversupplied.

Multifamily construction starts tick downward, but panelists express long-term optimism

Rising interest rates are weighing on New Jersey’s multifamily pipeline, at least in the near term, but have seemingly not dampened the longer outlook for new construction.

Multifamily owners, experts debate path forward as interest rate hikes loom (SLIDESHOW)

Interest rate concerns have permeated the commercial real estate landscape in New Jersey and beyond — including the stalwart multifamily sector, which has enjoyed years of rent growth, low vacancy and strong absorption driven by wholesale demographic shifts. Investors and developers are now wrestling with how to forge ahead with deals and projects despite the uncertainty, as they wait to learn how many more rate hikes are still to come.