Founder and managing partner at Arrow Real Estate Advisors

Arrow Real Estate Advisors hit the gas pedal during its first full year as a company.

The capital markets advisory firm, which Morris Betesh launched in October 2024, arranged $7 billion of debt originations across 165 transactions in 2025.

“We launched at a time where the market was a little bit tighter, and financial conditions have improved significantly in terms of liquidity and competitiveness amongst lenders, ”Betesh said. “We’ve grown the team significantly and our client base has expanded, but the market has improved significantly as well; and both those things together have contributed to a lot of our early success.”

Arrow facilitated a number of large deals over the past year, including a $320 million construction loan in July 2025 from Bridge City Capital and Deutsche Bank for Bushburg Properties’ partial office-to-residential conversion of a 1.2 million-square-foot office building at 80 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.

Another office-to-resi transaction Arrow placed was a $45 million loan in April 2025 from Northwind Group to CSC Real Estate for the acquisition and pre-redevelopment of the 18-story 300 East 42nd Street office building into a mixed-use tower.

Betesh also brokered a $61 million acquisition loan to a joint venture between David Werner Real Estate Investments and Sam Fisch Development in July 2025 for 5 Hanover Square, a 25-story office building slated for a potential residential conversion. The complex financing involved 99c providing a $41 million acquisition and pre-development loan for the upper floors, while Deutsche Bank supplied a $21 million acquisition loan for five lower floors in a condominium unit occupied by the Ideal School of Manhattan.

Winning so many signature transactions in 2025 stemmed largely from lender relationships Betesh has forged in his 15-year brokerage career.

“We get great execution from lenders and we get faster callbacks from them because most of the deals that we’ve executed with them have been great deals,” Betesh said. “The way we communicate with them and our relationships with them continue to improve.”