HOUSTON — Hunt Real Estate Capital has provided an $18.1 million Fannie Mae loan for the refinancing of Copperwood Ranch Apartments, a 280-unit affordable housing community in Houston. Built on 12.1 acres in 2003, the property features 48 one-bedroom units, 168 two-bedroom units and 64 three-bedroom units. Amenities include a pool, recreation room, playground, fitness center and onsite laundry facilities. The loan was structured with a 15-year term, two years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. The borrower was not disclosed.
SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — California-based direct lender Money360 has closed a $16 million bridge loan for the refinancing of an undisclosed office building in Sugar Land, a southwestern suburb of Houston. The nonrecourse loan was structured with a floating interest rate, three-year term and a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio. The borrower was also not disclosed.
RANCHO CORDOVA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. has arranged the $27 million refinancing of a 137-bed seniors housing asset in Rancho Cordova, a suburb of Sacramento. The 80,000-square-foot property, one of Summerset Senior Living’s two locations, offers assisted living and memory care. It was built in 2016. The new loan replaces $17 million in bridge financing that Marcus & Millichap also arranged. The refinancing features a 10-year term and a fixed rate. The lender was not disclosed.
Gregg Gerken, head of U.S. Commercial Real Estate at TD Bank, appreciates what millennials have done for the nation’s multifamily market. Factors contributing to multifamily’s success in recent years include millennials’ desire to live close to where they work and play, their tendency to delay marriage and kids and their social preferences that often involve roommates or the sharing economy. However, millennials are growing up — and many are aging out of the rental market. For many, those delayed life milestones are upon them. Other generations are waiting in the wings, but will they be enough to sustain the current level of multifamily supply and demand? Gerken tackles all of this and more in the Q&A below. Finance Insight (FI): Multifamily has been a strong performer for a while now. Do you expect this to continue in 2020 and beyond, particularly as millennials start to enter their traditional marrying and childbearing years? Gerken: For 2020, multifamily will continue to be a strong performer. When you look at the long-term demographic trends, however, this activity will trail off a bit as the millennial generation starts to age out of the key renter cohort, which is between the ages of 25 and …
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC has arranged a $31 million construction loan for Judson Mill, a multifamily redevelopment project in Greenville. Judson Mill originally opened in 1912 as a textile mill and was placed on National Register of Historic Places in February 2018. The developer and borrower, Judson Mill Ventures I LLC, will use the financing to construct 204 units, as well as communal amenities including a pool, fitness center and a courtyard. Retail and commercial spaces are planned for future phases. Located at 69 Westerfelt, Judson Mill is situated three miles southwest of downtown Greenville and spans 800,000 square feet. The developer will also use South Carolina Textiles Communities Revitalization Act tax credits and state and federal historic tax credits to help fund the project. Matt Good and Marshall Waller of Bellwether Enterprise arranged the construction loan on behalf of the borrower through CresCom Bank.
CHICAGO AND OAK PARK, ILL. — Arbor Realty Trust Inc. has provided three bridge loans totaling $24.6 million for a three-property multifamily portfolio in metro Chicago. Eric Regenbogen of Arbor originated the loans, which provided the borrower with the capital required to purchase and improve the properties that collectively total 135 units. Two of the communities, built in the 1960s, are located in Oak Park. The third property is located in Chicago and was built in 1932.
NEW YORK CITY — Voya Investment Management LLC has provided a $17.4 million loan for the acquisition and renovation of 79 Clifton Place, a 40-unit multifamily building in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The 52,375-square-foot building was converted to a multifamily use in 2000 after previously housing a knitting factory and now features one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The borrower, The FREO Group, plans to implement a $1.75 million capital improvements plan to boost occupancy. Max Herzog, Marko Kazanjian and Matt Fagella of JLL secured the loan.
The apartment and industrial sectors are clearly the darlings of the commercial real estate lending community. According to an exclusive online survey of direct lenders and financial intermediaries conducted nationally by France Media, 82 percent of respondents identify the multifamily sector as providing the most attractive financing opportunities for lenders in 2020, while 67 percent cite industrial real estate (Figure 1). A closer look at the fundamentals of the multifamily and industrial sectors helps explain why lenders favor these two property types. In its 2020 U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook report, CBRE Research forecasts multifamily demand to remain sufficient enough to absorb most of the new supply and to lower concessions in oversupplied markets. More specifically, the brokerage services giant projects multifamily completions will total 280,000 units in 2020, on par with an estimated 281,000 units delivered in 2019. While CBRE forecasts the multifamily vacancy rate to edge up 20 basis points to 4.5 percent in 2020, it is expected to remain under its long-term average of 5.1 percent. Despite some softening in the industrial and logistics market, overall fundamentals will remain strong due to continued e-commerce penetration and demand for logistics space, predicts CBRE. Supply is expected to outpace …
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has secured an $87 million construction loan for the ground-up development of Terminal Logistics Center, a 300,000-square-foot industrial project in Queens. CIT Group Inc. provided the loan to the borrower, a partnership of Triangle Equities Development Co., Township Capital Inc. and L&B Realty Advisors LLP, which will develop the Class A warehouse and storage facility adjacent to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Total cost for the project is approximately $129 million. Geoff Goldstein and Rob Hinckley led a JLL team that secured the loan.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — PNC Bank and CIT have jointly provided an $81.4 million acquisition loan for the DoubleTree by Hilton Nashville Downtown, a 341-room hotel that is situated less than a mile from Nissan Stadium and Bridgestone Arena, home to the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and the NHL’s Nashville Predators, respectively. Walton Street Capital LLC sold the hotel to AWH Partners. The hotel, which was originally built in 1979, offers an upgraded lobby; 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space; Fourth & U restaurant and bar; Patio 315, a seasonal outdoor bar and grill; an indoor pool; onsite Starbucks; a fitness center; and valet parking. Jordan Roeschlaub, Dustin Stolly, Ben Greazel, Joel Simmons Nick Scribani, Chris Kramer and Drew Ahlers of Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, New York-based AWH Partners. Mark Schoenholtz, also with NFK, brokered the sale.