JACKSONVILLE AND PENSACOLA, FLA. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has arranged two loans totaling $9.4 million for two apartment communities in Florida. The financing includes a $5.4 million loan for Mandarin Trace Apartments in Jacksonville and a $4 million loan for College Trace Apartments in Pensacola. Jeff Lawrence and Matt Baptiste of Walker & Dunlop arranged both fixed-rate loans with 15-year terms, three years of interest-only payments and 30-year amortization schedules. Walker & Dunlop arranged the loans on behalf of the borrower, Stonebridge Global Partners, a commercial real estate company focusing on acquiring and managing multifamily Section 8 housing projects across the United States.
MIAMI — Calmwater Capital, formerly known as Karlin Real Estate Lending, has provided a $34.7 million acquisition loan for the purchase of Security Building, a historic 96,575-square-foot office and residential tower in downtown Miami. Built in 1926 and converted to live-work-play lifestyle condo units in 2007, the 16-story Security Building is located in Miami’s financial district. In addition to the acquisition, the proceeds of the loan will be used by the borrower, Security Building AR Owner LLC, to upgrade and lease the asset. As a part of the lease-up strategy, the building owner secured a lease with WeWork, a New York-based provider of creative communal office space, to take 100 percent of the building and convert existing residential units into office space. The $34.7 million credit facility consists of an $18.2 million short-term loan, which was funded to acquire 55 of the 60 residential units. Future funding of $16.5 million will be provided for the acquisition of the five remaining condominium units, tenant improvements, overall building renovations and an interest reserve, according to Calmwater Capital.
DORAL, FLA. — Suffolk Construction has completed construction on Bel Air at Doral, a 249-unit luxury apartment community in Doral, roughly 14 miles outside of Miami. The project consists of two eight-story buildings and one five-story building. The midrise apartment community’s amenity package includes a fitness center, postal station, bar and lounge in the lobby and a private dog park with a pet spa. The project team includes developer ZOM Developments Inc.-Florida and architect Rodger Fry Architects.
SANFORD, FLA. — New York Life Real Estate Investors has originated a $41.3 million acquisition loan for Elan Towne Center Apartments, a 360-unit, Class A multifamily community in metro Orlando. The property is located at 12500 Solstice Loop in Sanford. The apartment community’s amenity package includes a swimming pool, sundeck with outdoor TVs and a fire pit, a tanning salon, walking trails, dog park, detached garages, cyber café and coffee bar, fitness center, movie theater, business center and an outdoor kitchen. Paul Ahmed of Walker & Dunlop’s Fort Lauderdale office arranged the 15-year loan with five years of interest-only payments.
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. — ARA Newmark has arranged the sale of Advenir at Colony Club, a 214-unit, garden-style apartment community located in Boynton Beach. Constructed in 2004 and 2005, the property’s amenity package includes full-size washers and dryers, complimentary Wi-Fi, alarm systems, balconies and patios, gourmet kitchens, one- and two-car garages, automated gate access, a sauna, swimming pool and spa, fitness center, clubhouse, basketball court, playground, picnic area and tennis courts. Advenir at Colony Club was 94 percent occupied at the time of sale. Hampton Beebe, Avery Klann, Troy Ballard, Marc deBaptiste and Richard Donnellan of ARA Newmark represented the seller, Florida-based Advenir, in the transaction. Greystar purchased the property for an undisclosed price.
TAMPA, FLA. — A discretionary fund formed by PM Realty Group and The Roseview Group called Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC acquired Westshore Center in Tampa. The sales price was undisclosed, but according to industry sources, the nine-story office building sold for $40 million. The 216,410-square-foot office property is located at 1715 N. Westshore Blvd. in Tampa’s Westshore submarket. The fund purchased the asset from an unnamed institutional investor for an undisclosed price. Built in 1984, the property is located roughly 2.4 miles south of Tampa International Airport. The Class A office building is the first acquisition in Florida for Roseview-PMRG Fund I LLC, which owns properties in Atlanta, Houston, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
LARGO, FLA. — Sterling Organization has sold Barclay Square, a 99,054-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay MSA. Northbrook, Ill.-based Pine Tree Commercial Realty purchased the shopping center from Sterling Organization for $18.9 million. Originally developed in 1988 and renovated in 2008, the shopping center is located on the northeast corner of Walsingham and Indian Rocks roads one mile east of the Gulf of Mexico. A 42,018-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market anchors the shopping center. Adam Feinstein of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. Sterling Organization purchased Barclay Square via its Sterling Value Add Partners LP institutional fund for $10.8 million in 2012.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $14.4 million sale of Royal Isles, a 264-unit apartment community located at 803 Don Quixote Ave. in Orlando. The property has 80 one-bedroom/one-bath units, 132 two-bedroom/two-bath apartments and 52 three-bedroom/two bath units. Evan Kristol of Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office and Still Hunter III of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private investor from Beverly Hills, Calif., and the buyer, a Miami-based limited-liability company.
Miami’s multifamily market now ranks among the country’s strongest overall performers (if not the strongest). The city attracts, and benefits from, numerous tourists, investors, financial institutions, real estate funds, retailers and tourists from countries around the globe. The demand for condominiums and apartment buildings in Miami seems insatiable with the investors competing for increasingly scant deals. In practical terms, that means hotel and office developers often lose out across asset classes to the “ever-on-fire” multifamily sector. There is every indication in the first quarter of 2015 that Miami’s multifamily market’s upward trend will continue. Debt and equity continue to stream into the Miami-Dade County apartment and condominium sector from both local sources and out-of-area buyers attracted to solid asset performance and robust housing demand generators. Continued employment and population growth have bolstered housing demand as the overall Miami economy strengthened in 2014. The Miami metropolitan area added more than 30,000 jobs last year, and based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Miami-Dade County’s unemployment rate continued its downward trend to 5.4 percent in February 2015. According to the Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, South Florida’s population is expected to increase by approximately 29 percent between 2013 …
TAMPA, FLA. — PCCP has formed a joint venture with Banyan Street Capital to purchase Rivergate Tower, a 515,965-square-foot office complex located at 400 N. Ashley Drive in downtown Tampa. PCCP and Banyan Street Capital purchased the property for $70 million, according to Tampa Business Journal. CBRE brokered the sale and arranged acquisition financing for the joint venture. The property comprises a 31-story office tower and an adjacent five-story pavilion office building that houses the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. Other tenants include Malio’s Prime Steakhouse, an upscale café, full-service bank branch, dry cleaner, two-story parking garage and a fitness center. The office complex was built in 1988 for $150 million.