"Few office towers have been left untouched by the flood of sublet space that has recently inundated the New York office market. In Midtown Manhattan — where many of the world’s largest financial companies are headquartered — three out of every four office towers now have sublet space available.
At 1095 Avenue of the Americas, Dechert, a law firm with a lease for the 25th through 31st floors, wants to sublet two floors, each 37,000 square feet.
Brokers say that many sublandlords will probably need to bend over backward to sublease their space, given the sharp rise in vacancies.
In Midtown Manhattan, for example, 13 percent of prime, modern, well-located offices — which brokers often refer to as Class A space — was available in April, up from 6.5 percent a year earlier, according to Colliers ABR, a commercial real estate services company. And sublets now account for some 40 percent of the space available in Midtown, compared with 30 percent of the much smaller total that was available a year ago, the company said.
“A year and a half ago, this space might have leased for $150 per square foot,” Mr. Sammons said, while he has heard of recent sublets in high-end buildings in this office corridor with annual rents of as little as $40 to $50 a r square foot. “This is the most remarkable turnaround in pricing that I’ve ever seen in such a short period of time.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/business/27sublet.html?_r=1&ref=business
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