STURGIS, MICH. — Greystone Bel Real Estate Advisors has arranged the $1.8 million sale of Colonial Crest Apartments in Sturgis in southern Michigan. Built in 1972, the 48-unit apartment property is located at 1000 E. Lafayette St. The Michigan-based buyer plans to complete interior unit renovations.
CONCORD, MASS. — Taurus Investment Holdings LLC has purchased 300 Baker Avenue, a 410,296-square-foot office building in Concord, a northwestern suburb of Boston. The sales price was $74.5 million. At the time of sale, the Class A building was 93.2 percent leased to 13 tenants, including the corporate headquarters of fruit juice manufacturer Welch’s and a satellite facility for Emerson Hospital. Amenities include a fitness facility, conference center, cafeteria and Starbucks kiosk. Robert Griffin and Edward Maher led a Newmark Knight Frank team that represented Taurus in the transaction. Novaya Real Estate Ventures was the seller.
NEW YORK CITY — Transwestern Real Estate Services has brokered the sale of the leasehold interest for a new charter elementary school at a 65,000-square-foot building in The Bronx. Located at 1919 Arthur Ave., the school will be called Zeta Bronx Tremont Park Elementary and will serve students in pre-K through fifth grade starting in August 2021. Lindsay Ornstein, Stephen Powers and Thomas Hines represented Zeta Charter Schools in the leasehold negotiations. The building ownership, Joyland Group, was represented internally in the transaction.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — MAG Capital Partners LLC (MAGCP), a Texas-based investment firm, has acquired a 42,700-square-foot frozen pie manufacturing facility in Rochester in a sale-leaseback deal. At the time of sale, SatisPie LLC occupied the property, which is located at 155 Balta Drive. An affiliate of SatisPie previously owned the property, and the frozen pie manufacturer has leased back its space. Mary Garnett of Barnes & Thornburg LLP represented MAGCP in the transaction. Luis Ortega and Kent Williams of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. The sales price was undisclosed.
WATERFORD, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.8 million sale of Stop & Shop Gas, a 44,431-square foot, net-leased property located in Waterford, located approximately 45 miles east of West Haven. Located at 155 Boston Post Road, the property was built in 2009 and offers immediate access to State Route 1. Laurie Ann Drinkwater and Seth Richard of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The team also represented the buyer, another private investor. Both parties requested anonymity.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Locally based investment and development firm Westmount Realty Capital has purchased River Park, a 280-unit apartment community in southwest Fort Worth. Built on 9.8 acres in 1985, the property offers one- and two-bedroom units with stainless steel appliances, individual washers and dryers and private patios. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, outdoor grilling area, coffee bar, dog park and onsite laundry facilities. Westmount will implement a value-add program to the unit interiors and amenity spaces. The seller was not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Miami-based One Real Estate Investment has acquired Sunswept Townhomes, a 211-unit multifamily asset in southwest Houston. Built in 1982, the property features one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans ranging in size from 745 to 1,257 square feet. Mitch Sinberg and Brad Williamson of Berkadia originated a 10-year, floating-rate acquisition loan through Freddie Mac for One Real Estate Investment. A portion of the proceeds will be used for renovations. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
EULESS, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Texas Star Business Center, a 78,418-square-foot industrial building in Euless, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The property was built on 4.7 acres in 1984. Adam Abushagur of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investors that requested anonymity.
LOS ANGELES — Verity Health System has sold the 381-bed St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles for $135 million. The hospital is currently operating on a temporary lease with the State of California as a surge facility for treating COVID-19 patients. The buyer, surgeon and medical researcher Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, will continue to honor the lease with the state, while also using several buildings as facilities for COVID-19 research. Soon-Shiong is the principal officer of the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, a California-based private grantmaking organization. “Verity Health is proud of its partnership with the State of California and is confident that Dr. Soon-Shiong and his team will continue to enhance the collaboration with the state and local government to address COVID-19,” says Rich Adcock, CEO of Verity Health. Verity Health System filed for bankruptcy in summer 2018. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles recently approved the sale of the nonprofit’s assets, including St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood to Prime Healthcare. Located at 213 W. 3rd St. in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul originally opened the hospital in 1856. The property closed …
Many real estate investors seeking tax deferral in a 1031 exchange, as well as owners contemplating a sale of an investment property in the near future and intending to perform a 1031 exchange, have been anxiously awaiting guidance from the IRS on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the time deadlines in an exchange. On April 9, 2020 the IRS issued Notice 2020-23, which extended many deadlines for real estate investors affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, including Section 1031 exchange time deadlines. This notice provides that any person performing a time-sensitive action listed in either § 301.7508A-1(c)(1)(iv) of the Procedure and Administrative Regulations or Revenue Procedure 2018-58, 2018-50 IRB 990 (Dec. 10, 2018), which is due to be performed on or after April 1 and before July 15, 2020, is an “affected taxpayer.” This includes the 45-day identification and 180-day exchange period deadlines in both deferred and safe-harbor reverse 1031 exchanges. Therefore, pursuant to Notice 2020-23, if the end of an investor’s 45-day identification period or 180-day exchange period in a deferred exchange — or the parallel periods in reverse exchanges under Revenue Procedure 2000-37 — falls between April 1 and July 15, the applicable period is automatically extended …
