Acquisitions

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PHOENIX — SB Real Estate Partners has purchased Azura Apartments, a multifamily property located at 2700 W. Sahuaro Drive in Phoenix, for $91 million. The buyer will rebrand the community as Portola North Phoenix. Built in 1980, Azura Apartments features 387 units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom floor plans ranging from 474 square feet to 924 square feet. Community amenities include a recently modernized clubhouse, three swimming pools, three laundry facilities, secured-access gating, barbecue areas and playground areas. Cliff David and Steven Gebing of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer in the deal.

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MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Colliers has arranged the sale of Moreno Beach Plaza II, a shopping center located at 27610 Eucalyptus Ave. in Moreno Valley. A West Coast-based investment firm sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $21 million. LA Fitness, AutoZone, Carl’s Jr. and Panda Express are tenants at the 82,340-square-foot retail center. At the time of sale, the property was 96 percent occupied. The retail center consists of three single-tenant parcels, a multi-tenant pad building and a two-tenant anchor building situated on 9.1 acres. El Warner, Charley Simpson, Caitlin Zirpolo and Jordan Gomez of Colliers represented the seller in the deal.

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MESA, ARIZ. — Greenlight Communities has completed the sale of Cabana Power, an apartment property in Mesa. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $84 million, or $344,262 per unit. Completed in 2022, Cabana Power features 244 apartments with nine-foot ceilings, eight-foot entry doors with keyless entry, smart thermostats and heat-reflecting windows. Select floor plans offer built-in workstation desks and full-size, front-loading washers and dryers. The community features a leasing office and clubhouse, coworking space, two laundry rooms, a resort-style swimming pool, Zen gardens, a multipurpose event lawn and outdoor fitness circuits. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.

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BUTTE, MONT. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has negotiated the sale of Big Sky Senior Living in Butte. The community features 159 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. The 87,000-square-foot asset was built in 1997 and sits on 11.3 acres of land. The seller is a locally based regional owner-operator. The buyer is a regional owner-operator based in the West that is expanding in the Mountain West. The price was not disclosed. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell and Vince Viverito of SLIB handled the transaction.

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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $71.4 million sale of Colony Woods, a 414-unit apartment community in the Cahaba Heights submarket of Birmingham. Andrew Brown and Craig Hey of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Denver-based Forum Investment Group, in the transaction. The buyer was Arcan Capital, a multifamily investment firm based in Marietta, Ga. Built in 1991 and 1995, Colony Woods was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. The property features units averaging 1,088 square feet with wood-burning fireplaces, walk-in closets, in-unit washers and dryers and private patios or balconies.

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MIAMI — Trion Properties, a private equity investment firm with offices in West Hollywood and Miami, has purchased Art 88 Apartments in Miami for $87.3 million. The seller was not disclosed, but South Florida Business Journal reports that Grand Peak Properties was the previous owner. Built in 1971 within one mile of Miami International Airport, Art 88 comprises 294 one- and two-bedroom apartments averaging 787 square feet. The community is configured in eight two- to five-story elevator buildings and features two pools, a fitness center, laundry facilities and a dog park. Maurice Habif, Simon Banke and Ted Turner of JLL brokered the transaction, and Jesse Wright with JLL arranged acquisition financing. Art 88 was 97 percent occupied at the time of sale, and the new ownership plans to make capital improvements to the property in the near future.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management has purchased The Line, a newly built, 16-story office tower in Charlotte’s South End district. The 314,221-square-foot property is located at 2151 Hawkins St. and features shared workspaces, sky lobby, amenity terrace, open-air plaza, lawn, outdoor decks, bike rooms, lockers, showers, covered parking and 24,000 square feet of retail space. The CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 9 fund acquired The Line in a joint venture with Atlanta-based Portman Holdings, which co-developed the property with Washington, D.C.-based National Real Estate Advisors LLC. Mike McDonald and Jonathan Napper of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.

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NORFOLK, VA. — TSB Realty has arranged the sale of The Next at ODU, a 909-bed student housing property located near Old Dominion University in Norfolk. The Michaels Organization sold the community to Saxum Real Estate for an undisclosed price. Delivered in 2010, the property offers shared amenities including a resort-style swimming pool and spa, 24-hour fitness center, tanning, a clubroom, business center and shuttle service to campus. Units offer bed-to-bath parity alongside features including modern appliances and washers and dryers.

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HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the $18.2 million sale of Port Royal Plaza, a 90,860-square-foot shopping center in Hilton Head. The property’s anchor tenants include Planet Fitness and AutoZone. The seller, an entity doing business as GFB Associates LLC, sold the center to Ronicks LLC, a private investor based in Tennessee. Zach Taylor of IPA brokered the transaction. “Port Royal Plaza is a landmark center on the north end of Hilton Head Island,” says Taylor. “The real estate is irreplaceable. We saw strong demand for this center and closed right at our guidance.”

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DALLAS — Global Real Estate Advisors (GREA) has arranged the sale of four multifamily assets totaling 851 units that are located throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The properties include Villa Placita in Garland (122 units); Antigua Village in Fort Worth (152 units); WaterWalk Las Colinas in Irving (153 units); and The Club at Fossil Creek in Fort Worth (424 units). Mark Allen and Zac Thomas of GREA brokered the deals. The sellers were not disclosed.

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