New York City leads the nation in office-to-apartment conversions with nearly 16,400 units in the pipeline, fueled by a generous 2024 tax incentive program and a wave of discounted office acquisitions by developers betting on residential repositioning. Analysts note that conversion projects now account for more than a third of new housing in the city and nearly half of all adaptive reuse activity nationally.
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