{"id":854687,"date":"2026-06-09T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:35:34","slug":"rxr-puts-helmsley-building-up-for-sale-for-roughly-670m-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/854687\/","title":{"rendered":"RXR Puts Helmsley Building Up for Sale for Roughly $670M \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Scott Rechler<\/b>\u2019s <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/rxr\/\" title=\"RXR\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RXR<\/a><\/b> is putting the landmarked <b>Helmsley Building<\/b> up for sale more than two years after defaulting on a loan tied to the Midtown property, Commercial Observer has learned.<\/p>\n<p>RXR is asking for roughly $670 million for the 1.4 million-square-foot office building at <b>230 Park Avenue<\/b>, according to a source close to the deal. The asking price is at or above the debt level, or about $481 per square foot.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/senior-housing-omni-lifestyle-living-buys-midtown-marriott\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Housing Operator Omni Lifestyle Living Buys Midtown Marriott for $40M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the turnaround in the New York City office market, RXR made the strategic decision to put the building up for sale,\u201d a spokesperson for RXR said in a statement to CO.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/newmark\/\" title=\"Newmark\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newmark<\/a><\/b>\u2019s <b>Adam Spies<\/b>, <b>Adam Doneger<\/b>, <b>Josh King<\/b>, <b>Marcella Fasulo<\/b> and<b> Avery Silverstein<\/b> are marketing the building, according to marketing materials from the brokerage. <b><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/green-loan-services\/\" title=\"Green Loan Services\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Loan Services<\/a><\/b>, a division of<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/sl-green-realty\/\" title=\"SL Green Realty\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SL Green Realty<\/a><\/b>, is acting as the special servicer.<\/p>\n<p>Newmark declined to comment, while a spokesperson for SL Green did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Promote <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hitsamty\/status\/2063991074486665699\">first reported<\/a> the news of the listing.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-story Helmsley Building, built between 1927 and 1929, is going up for sale after a few years of financial struggle under RXR\u2019s ownership. It originally defaulted on its $670 million single-asset, single-borrower commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan secured by the building in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The $670 million portion of the loan, which was part of the <b>Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2021-230P<\/b> single-asset, single-borrower CMBS deal that totaled $795 million, transferred to special servicing due to \u201can imminent maturity default,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/11\/cmbs-loan-backed-rxrs-iconic-helmsley-building-sent-special-servicing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CO reported at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2024, Rechler was <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2024\/07\/rxr-explores-converting-helmsley-building-after-default-670m-loan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in talks to potentially convert the property<\/a> into another use, but it\u2019s unclear what happened to those plans. RXR bought the Helmsley Building in May 2015 for $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the landlord\u2019s financial troubles, 230 Park has seen some big office leases recently, including financial services firm <b>StoneX<\/b>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/02\/stonex-lease-rxr-230-park-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expansion<\/a> to 94,742 square feet at the property in February, and <b>Banco de la <\/b><b>Naci\u00f3n Argentina<\/b>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/09\/bna-comerica-bank-leases-rxr-230-park-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewal<\/a> for 23,407 square feet there in September.<\/p>\n<p>The building is currently 46 percent leased, according to the Newmark marketing materials.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle Durso can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/rxr-helmsley-building-up-for-sale-670m\/mailto:idurso@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">idurso@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Rechler\u2019s RXR is putting the landmarked Helmsley Building up for sale more than two years after defaulting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":854688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[264229,70462,5229,127981,4282,348977,348976,196838,127983,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,179599,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-854687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-doneger","tag-adam-spies","tag-america","tag-avery-silverstein","tag-channel","tag-helmsley-building","tag-investments-sales-230-park-avenue","tag-josh-king","tag-marcella-fasulo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-scott-rechler","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116719237636448713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}