MALVERN AND LANGHORNE, PA., FRANKLIN, MASS. — Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Real Estate (GSAM) has acquired a portfolio of five industrial flex properties in suburban Philadelphia and Boston totaling 525,000 square feet for an undisclosed amount. The properties are located in Malvern and Langhorne Pa., and Franklin, Mass. The addition of the five properties brings GSAM Private Real Estate’s industrial portfolio in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions to 13 properties totaling 2.4 million square feet. GSAM Private Real Estate represented itself in the transaction. The seller was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — GFI Realty Services has arranged the sale of a six-story, 46-unit apartment building in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn for $12.5 million. The pre-war property, located at 218 74th St., consists of 16 studios, 28 one-bedroom units and a couple of two-bedroom units, all of which are rent-stabilized. Yosef Katz and Natan Safdieh of GFI Realty represented the seller in the transaction, Madeleine Behette, a local investor. Erik Yankelovich, also of GFI, procured the buyer, Meridian Properties. The property is located on a tree-lined block between Ridge Boulevard and 3rd Avenue.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — NAPA Ventures has sold Parkside Townhomes, a multifamily community in Arlington that features 144 rentable townhome units. The property, which is located within three miles of AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Park, offers two- and three-bedroom units and a pool. Prior to the sale, NAPA invested in capital improvements to the property’s landscaping, parking lots and exterior lighting, as well as the cabinets, countertops and floors of the units. The buyer was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Westbridge Realty Group has arranged the sale of a 5,600-square-foot apartment building located at 20-35 Gates Ave in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens. The vacant six-unit building, which was built in 1930, sold for $2.2 million. The sales price equates to $379,000 per unit. Adam Traub and Isaac Shrem of Westbridge Realty represented both the buyer, an active investor in Queens, and the seller, a long-term holder who purchased the property in 1985.
GARLAND, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a 54,000-square-foot industrial building located at 2601 W. Kingsley Road in the Dallas metro of Garland. Kingsley Industrial LLC sold the property to Snell Motor Co. Inc. for an undisclosed price. Matt Dornak and Ryan Wolcott of Stream Realty Partners brokered the sale.
GLENVIEW, ILL. — Glenview-based Providence, the parent company of Providence Management Co. LLC, has sold its interest in a 14-property, 3,451-unit multifamily joint venture portfolio located throughout the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. In North Carolina, the portfolio included three properties in Charlotte and three properties in Greensboro. In South Carolina, the portfolio included three properties in Greenville and a property in Spartanburg. In addition, the portfolio included a property in Huntsville, Ala., Savannah, Ga., and Lexington, Ky. The sales price and specific property names were not disclosed.
STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — U-Haul Co. has acquired a 324,000-square-foot warehouse located at 471 Eagles Landing Parkway in Stockbridge, roughly 19 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed. U-Haul Mobility & Storage at Eagles Landing will be repurposed to offer 1,800 indoor self-storage units for rent. The facility will include a mix of climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled units and security features. In addition, the warehouse will house a new regional office for U-Haul. The company’s operations will encompass 108,000 square feet, and the remaining 216,000 square feet will be available for lease. The facility will employ approximately 20 people when fully operational, and will feature a sidewalk expansion for customers who arrive by golf cart, an electrical charging station for golf carts and a walking and biking path. In the coming weeks, U-Haul will allocate warehouse space to store more than 300 U-Box portable moving and storage containers and lot space to accommodate 40 U-Haul truck boxes, providing immediate storage solutions for customers while self-storage rooms are under construction. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
DURHAM, N.C. — Audubon Communities has acquired Oak Creek Village, a 500-unit apartment community located at the intersection of Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard and Garrett Road in Durham. The name of the seller and the sales price were not disclosed. Audubon will invest $4.6 million in capital improvements for the property — originally constructed in 1972 — and rename the community The Garrett. Planned improvements include replacement of the existing leasing office with a new facility that will include a new fitness center and residential lounge, roof replacement, landscape improvements and updates to the pool, playground and other outdoor amenities. Legacy Capital Partners is Audubon’s equity partner on the transaction. Audubon financed the deal with an acquisition and construction loan from PGIM Real Estate Finance. The deal marks Atlanta-based Audubon’s first investment in the North Carolina market and the company’s third deal with Legacy Capital Partners.
AUSTELL, GA. — Resource Apartment REIT III Inc., through a wholly owned subsidiary, has acquired Tramore Village, a 324-unit apartment community in Austell, roughly 17 miles northwest of Atlanta. Constructed in 1999, the community features two swimming pools, a fitness center and a lighted tennis court. The sales price and name of the seller were not disclosed.
WHITE BEAR LAKE AND LAKE ELMO, MINN. — US Storage Centers, in partnership with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC, has acquired two self-storage facilities in Minnesota for an undisclosed price. Both properties, which feature climate-controlled units, will be rebranded as US Storage Centers. One of the facilities, a 922-unit, 83,264-square-foot property, is located in White Bear Lake, about 20 miles northeast of Minneapolis. The other is a 790-unit facility with 69,038 square feet of self-storage space in Lake Elmo, about 24 miles east of Minneapolis. US Storage Centers currently manages approximately 8 million square feet of self-storage space nationwide.