Richard Steinberg, an executive managing director of Warburg Realty, agreed.
"You're really drawing a very young, hip crowd," said Richard Steinberg, an executive managing director of the Warburg Realty Partnership.
"Open houses, quite frankly, have become obsolete," said Richard Steinberg, the executive managing director of Warburg Realty.
"There's always that premium for the tower view," said Alan Desino, an executive managing director of the commercial brokerage Colliers International.
But even longtime private equity players, like the executive managing his firm's hiring process, admit that the competition has made anything possible.
"The American way of managing space is very different from Europe," said Ron Cohen, an executive managing director of Insignia/ESG.
"He'll have the public to deal with, and he'll have to adapt to that," said Andrew D. Ratner, an executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield.
"The effect will be absolutely positive," said C. Bradley Mendelson, the executive managing director of Insignia/ESG, a real estate company.
That helps to explain the interest in buildings like 450 Lexington, said Ron Cohen, an executive managing director of Insignia/ESG, the brokerage and services company.
"I have a client that was thinking of moving a third of their operation to Jersey City," says Studley executive managing director Matthew Barlow.
Julie Spacht, water executive managing engineer for the agency, said that blowouts are more common in summer because heat expands pipes.
