Rakow Commercial Realty Group Receives The 2016 CoStar Power Broker Award

    WHITE PLAINS, NY, June 22, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- CoStar announced its Power Broker Award winners, naming Rakow Commercial Realty Group a Power Broker for Leasing Transactions in the Westchester / Southern Connecticut region for 2016.

Serving the Westchester and Fairfield county markets for over 30 years, Rakow Commercial Realty Group has consistently ranked as a top Westchester / Fairfield County Leasing and Sales Broker and arranged over $53,500,000 in leasing transactions and over $21,500,000 in sales transactions in 2016.

Rakow Commercial Realty Group has arranged leasing transactions for a wide variety of industries, including the move from Manhattan to Greenwich of Platinum Equity, a global M&A firm, the relocation within the building for illy Cafe in Manhattan, Philips, Michael Settler, CPA, Greybar Electric and Servpro. Lease Renewals were negotiated for tenants including Micro Powders, Madison Pension Services and for many law firms including Beck Liebman & Petrone, Keane and Beane, Lyons & McGovern, The Quinn Law Firm, Wolper and Marcus, Steinberg & Cavaliere. Medical space leases were arranged for practices such as Westchester Health, Dermatology Surgery and Laser Center, Westchester Dental School and Sleep Services of America. Industrial transactions took place for Nation's Roof and New England Truck Services into warehouse spaces in Yonkers and retail transactions were negotiated for The Dessertist, Wingstop, Phoenix Flight Fitness and Casa Blanca Tile, among others. Significant sales transactions include the sale of the former Hawthorne Multiplex Theater to Audi of Danbury, and a 99-acre parcel of land on behalf of Con Ed.

Rakow Commercial Realty Group is a full-service commercial Real estate firm. For over 30 years, thousands of tenants, buyers and sellers have benefited from Rakow Commercial Realty Group representation in Westchester and Fairfield counties and beyond. "We are thrilled and honored to receive CoStar's Power Broker award," says Rick Rakow, President of the eponymous company, "it's the recognition of the value we provide to our clients - value driven by our knowledge and experience of the commercial real estate market in Westchester and Fairfield counties as well as sites all over the country."

CoStar Power Broker Awards are based on transaction data in CoStar's commercial real estate database, which is the largest, independently researched database of commercial real estate property information available online. CoStar's database contains more than 4.2 million commercial properties, and the total square footage of gross building area tracked and maintained by CoStar exceeds 95 billion square feet.

"Every year we are honored to recognize those individual brokers and firms who have outperformed their peers," said CoStar Group founder and CEO Andrew C. Florance. "These industry leaders have demonstrated exceptional sales and leasing success, and we congratulate them on their achievement."

Rakow Commercial Realty Group, Inc. is a full-service commercial Real estate firm. For over 30 years, thousands of tenants, buyers and sellers have benefited from RakowGroup representation.

With offices in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT, with affiliations nationally and internationally, the company assists any organization lease, buy and sell commercial real estate or to successfully renegotiate their current leases, protecting their interests every step of the way.

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