In short
There was never a listing. A post said a client wanted eight thousand square feet of ground floor retail downtown, and an owner two blocks away replied that afternoon.
An illustrative example. This piece shows how a deal moves on the platform. It is written rather than reported, and the figures in it are not drawn from a specific transaction.
Nobody listed anything. A need met a want, and the paperwork followed.
There was never a listing. There was a post that said a client wanted eight thousand square feet of ground floor retail downtown, with a note about what they would pay for the right corner.
An owner two blocks away had space coming back the following quarter and had not decided how to take it to market yet. They replied to the thread the same afternoon.
The two sides toured before anything was written down, agreed on the shape of a deal in the room, and let the lawyers catch up afterward. The LOI signed inside a month.
Off-market has always worked this way. What changed is that the conversation no longer depends on the two right people happening to know each other.
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