STREETSBORO, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Cleveland-Streetsboro hotel for an undisclosed price. The 68-room hotel is located in Streetsboro, a southeast suburb of Cleveland. The property, constructed in 1999, will continue operating as a Holiday Inn Express following a renovation. Alexandre Duong of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. Duong also procured the undisclosed buyer.
TEXAS — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has negotiated the sale of seven skilled nursing facilities totaling 564 beds in Central and East Texas. The assets on average were built in 1969 and had an average licensed capacity of 80 beds per facility. Blueprint positioned the deal as an opportunity for an incoming owner or operator to acquire an established skilled nursing portfolio and integrate the facilities into an existing regional portfolio. The buyer was a regional owner-operator. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES — CBRE has arranged the sale of The Garfield Building, a 102,219-square-foot vacant office building in downtown Los Angeles. A Bay Area family office purchased the property for $19 million. The investor is planning to convert the 12-story historic building into a boutique hotel. The Garfield Building features 20-foot-high lobby ceilings and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was originally an office building, but has been vacant for several years. CBRE’s Phillip Sample, Chris Caras, Michael Shustak and Andrew Turf represented the seller, a private investor that owned the building for more than 30 years. Wendell Jones of Realty One Group Infinity represented the buyer.
TOLLESON, ARIZ. — CorLiving has sold a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Tolleson to a 1031 exchange buyer for $20 million. The community is located at 705 South 94th Ave., just west of Phoenix. It is a state-of-the-art, single-tenant, front-loaded, mid-bay distribution warehouse with a secured truck court. Silver Rafter D5 LLC, a private investor from California, purchased the property with no financing contingencies. The transaction was a sale-leaseback with CorLiving, which has occupied the property for more than eight years. Kidder Mathews’ Mike Ciosek and Eric Bell represented CorLiving, a home furnishing company, in the transaction.
ONTARIO, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a single-tenant property located in Ontario. Bill Asher and Jeff Lefko of Hanley represented the seller, Evergreen Development, in the $3.5 million transaction. Fast5Xpress Car Wash occupies the property, which comprises a 4,446-square-foot building situated on 1.2 acres, on a 35-year, absolute triple-net ground lease.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firms Stav Equities LLC and Invictus Property Advisors have arranged the $3.7 million sale of a multifamily development site at 48 Somers St. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. The site is approved for the construction of a seven-story building that will house 24 apartments, a community center and a retail space. Jacob Stavsky of Stav Equities and Andrew Levine, Josh Lipton and Jax Hindmarch of Invictus, represented both undisclosed parties in the transaction.
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Higher Interest Rates Cause Affordable Housing Values to Return to Old Norms
Rising interest rates dinging commercial real estate and multifamily assets have plunged low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) properties back into reality, especially those coming to the end of their 15-year compliance periods. “There were some huge profits made in the affordable housing space over the last two or three years,” says Cliff McDaniel, a managing director with Lument, which is representing Harmony Housing in the $1.4 billion sale of its affordable housing portfolio to the Michaels Organization. “We sold a lot of properties for $60,000 a unit or even $120,000 a unit, and the debt was $40,000 a unit. But the mania over that type of profitability is over, and values are going back to where they were before.” Up until about five years ago, the phrase “huge profits” and “affordable housing” would rarely if ever have occurred in the same sentence. Or even in the same story. Prior to that, affordable housing properties typically had very little value at the end of their initial 15-year compliance periods, and limited partners who provided equity to the project by buying tax credits routinely agreed to sell their interest to the general partner for a nominal fee. At that point, the …
ARLINGTON AND GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Locally based development and investment firm M2G Ventures has sold a portfolio of three industrial buildings totaling approximately 445,000 square feet in the central part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The portfolio spans a combined 27.6 acres. Two of the buildings totaling roughly 345,000 square feet are located in Grand Prairie, and the third building totals 100,129 square feet and is located in Arlington. The buyer was New York-based Mavik Capital Management. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale to tenants such as civil aviation firm CAE, Home Zone/Alpha Furniture and Rent-A-Wheel/Rent-A-Tire. Stephen Bailey, Dustin Volz, Dom Espinosa and Zach Riebe of JLL represented M2G Ventures in the deal.
FREEMONT, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $40.5 million sale of two retail centers in the Bay Area city of Fremont. The first property, Franciscan Center, comprises 106,840 square feet and the second, Mohave Center, totals 10,228 square feet. Together, the centers were 92 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants including Safeway, Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King, Bank of America and 7-Eleven. Gleb Lvovich, Daniel Tyner, Geoff Tranchina and Eric Kathrein of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Sterling Organization acquired the properties.
COLLIERVILLE, TENN. — Edwards Realty Co. and Core Acquisitions have acquired The Shops at Carriage Crossing, a 514,000-square-foot shopping center located in Collierville, roughly 30 miles outside Memphis. The joint venture purchased the property for $25 million from an undisclosed seller. Jones Aur Commercial Real Estate will lead leasing efforts at the property on behalf of the new owners.