Joel Braver
Express Builders
144 Spencer Street Suite 612 Brooklyn, NY 11205
Express Builders portfolio
(NYC’s “Market Value,” 50% or less of actual value)
$4.7 million – industrial 88.0%, development 11.0%; Bronx 88.0%, Brooklyn 11.0%
3868th largest portfolio by dollar value
7 properties – Bronx 57%, Brooklyn 42%
150th largest
Person Activity past 24 months:
Buyer signatory: 2 for $13 million
Seller signatory: 0 for $0
Borrower signatory: 3 for $234.2 million
Lender signatory: 0 for $0
Developer (new building or major alteration): 2 for 383,717 square feet
Top Ten Associated Companies:
Signature Bank (2), Castellan Real Estate Partners (1), Shulem Schik (1), Richard A. Kaplin (1), Yeshiva Beis Leivy (1), Kahal Toldos Tzvi D’Spinka (1), Castellan Capital (1), NYC Housing Development Corporation (1)
Top Ten Associated People:
Shulem Schik (1), Richard A. Kaplin (1), Herman Silberman (1), Shulem Eisenberg (1), Meilech Spitzer (1), Joel Hammer (1), Maryanne Kearney (1)
Recent activity as signatory:
• Express Builders borrowed $192.1 million from NYC Housing Development Corporation for 498 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn on December 31, 2024.
• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 156,632 sqft in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on December 02, 2024.
• Express Builders borrowed $23 million from Castellan Capital for N/A Story Avenue, N/A Lafayette Avenue, N/A Story Avenue, and N/A Lafayette Avenue, Soundview, Bronx on September 04, 2024.
• Kahal Toldos Tzvi D’Spinka sold 100 Rutledge Street and 102 Rutledge Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $3.1 million to Express Builders on May 03, 2024.
• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 227,086 sqft in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on March 06, 2024.
• Yeshiva Beis Leivy sold 437 Flushing Avenue and 433 Flushing Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $9.9 million to Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar on August 17, 2023.
• Joel Braver borrowed $19.1 million from Castellan Real Estate Partners for 904 Bedford Avenue, 908 Bedford Avenue, and 902 Bedford Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on February 14, 2023.
• Joel Braver sold 4911 19th Avenue, Borough Park, Brooklyn for $4 million to Shulem Schik on November 07, 2022.
• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 29,303 sqft in Soundview, Bronx, on June 14, 2022.
• Joel Braver filed plans for major alteration for 6,765 sqft in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on May 13, 2022.
Latest Stories:
• Express Builders signs $23M refi with Castellan for dev site in Soundview September 05, 2024
• Satmar congregation pays $9.9M for development site in Williamsburg August 18, 2023
• Shulem Schik pays $4M to Joel Braver for dev site in Borough Park November 08, 2022
• Joel Braver pays $23.4M for three rental buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant July 09, 2021
• Joel Braver pays $19M to Jacob Schwimmer for development property in Soundview March 16, 2020