Joshua King serves as Newmark’s Executive Vice Chairman of U.S. Capital Markets based in the New York City office.
In addition to investment sales transactions, King has significant expertise in large/complex transactions involving trophy real estate, portfolios, and structured equity deals including joint ventures, preferred equity, partial interest sales, secondary interest sales, and equity capital raising (for individual deals, programmatic ventures and closed-end funds).
King’s deal experience spans property asset classes including office, retail, industrial, multifamily and specialty property types including life sciences, medical office, student housing and data centers. He has specialized expertise and experience in cross-border transactions including the structural aspects of admitting offshore capital into U.S. real estate on a tax-efficient basis. Over the course of his career, King has been actively involved in the sourcing, underwriting and execution of over $150 billion in transactions volume.
Prior to joining Newmark in February 2023, King worked at Cushman and Wakefield for seven years and held the position of Vice Chairman in the New York City Office. Prior to that, King worked at Eastdil Secured for nine years, most recently as a Managing Director in the New York City office and previous to Eastdil, worked for five years at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, a division of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where he reported to the firm’s Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy for the United States.
He is a licensed real estate salesperson in the State of New York and a Registered Representative (Series 7, 63).
Representative Deal Experience
- 1 Liberty Plaza - $1.0 BN Office 49% interest sale, one of the largest transactions of 2023 (2023)
- Harmony Housing Portfolio - $1.15 BN sale, 10k unit sale (2023)
- Solow Residential Portfolio - $1.75 BN advisory assignment in Manhattan across 1,800 units (2022)
- American Copper - $837 M luxury multifamily sale, over $1 M / unit (2022)
- 19 Dutch - $489 M luxury multifamily sale, over $1 M / unit (2022)
- 1 Manhattan West - $2.85 BN sale, largest NYC office sale of 2022 (2022)
- 100 Pearl - $850 M office sale in 2021, $878 psf downtown office psf record (2021)
- International Airport Centers Industrial Portfolio JV - $700 MM (2020)
- Arts District LA Multifamily Opp. Zone Development Raise - $275 MM (2020)
- Putnam Portfolio - $1.2 Billion Sale (2019)
- 30 Hudson Yards - $2.2 Billion Sale (2019)
- Avalon NYC Portfolio JV - $760 MM (2018)
- Alexandria LIC Acquisition for Lab Conversion - $75 MM (2018)
- Pfizer Global Headquarters Sale - $364 MM (2018)
Education & Achievements
King holds a Master of Business Administration degree with majors in real estate and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Binghamton University.
He has served as a member of the Advisory Board to Make-A-Wish® Metro New York and Western New York since 2011.