Mazel tov to Barry Gosin, CEO of Newmark Knight Frank, and Jeffrey Gural, chairman of Newmark, both of whom took home the coveted Jack D. Weiler Award today at an annual UJA Federation of New York luncheon at the Pierre.

The UJA Federation's Real Estate Division Executive Committee, which held the luncheon, reads like a who's who of New York City real estate: Joseph Moinian, Douglas Durst, Larry Silverstein, Daniel Tishman and Mary Ann Tighe, among others.

According to the release, here's why the two real estate honchos were chosen:  read more »

Newmark Knight Frank C.E.O. Barry Gosin in this morning's Wall Street Journal:

"There is a slowdown... Any major financial institution is not in a hurry to rent space right at the moment."

Other old pros in New York commercial real estate have been saying the same thing recently about the office market. Rents have likely reached their peaks; and the credit market crises and uncertainty over the national economy aren't helping matters.

Look for more pros to sound similarly disconsolate themes in the coming weeks.