IRVINE, CALIF. — Sabra Health Care REIT (NASDAQ: SBRA) has acquired 21 skilled nursing facilities in a sale-leaseback transaction with an undisclosed West Coast operator for $378 million. The Irvine-based, publicly traded REIT plans to buy the operator’s three remaining facilities before the end of the year for $52 million, for an expected total purchase price of $430 million. The acquisitions are one of several mega-deals for Sabra this year. In August, the company completed its acquisition of skilled nursing owner and former Ventas spinoff Care Capital Properties. Just last week, Sabra also announced it had agreed to buy minority interest in a 183-property portfolio of Enlivant-operated seniors housing communities for $371 million. Sabra plans to eventually acquire 100 percent interest in the portfolio. Sabra was the 21st largest owner of seniors housing in the U.S. with 74 communities and 7,624 units as of June 1, according to the American Seniors Housing Association’s 2017 tally. However, that ranking was before any of these three major acquisitions. Concurrent with the new sale-leaseback transaction, Sabra also announced that it has begun the process of marketing for sale the remaining 43 facilities that the company leases to Genesis Healthcare Inc. Sabra predicts the sales …
Multifamily
Bellwether Enterprise Closes $51M Refinancing of 260-Unit Apartment Community in Bellevue
by Nellie Day
BELLEVUE, WASH. — Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC has closed the $51 million refinancing of the 260-unit Alley 111 in Bellevue. The apartment community is located at 11011 N.E. 9th St. Alley 111 was built in 2015. The community features a rooftop deck and lounge, fitness center, storage lockers for skis and snowboards, and dry-cleaning services. The property’s ground-floor retail includes Minamoto Japanese Cuisine and Honor Coffee. Laurie Morfin originated the 10-year, fixed-rate loan. The lender was Nationwide.
CBRE Arranges Construction Financing for 157-Unit Seniors Housing Community in Aliso Viejo
by Nellie Day
ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for Belmont Village Aliso Viejo, a 157-unit assisted living and memory care community in Aliso Viejo, a master-planned community in the San Joaquin Hills between Los Angeles and San Diego. A joint venture between Houston-based operator Belmont Village Senior Living and Boston-based private equity firm Blue Moon Capital Partners is developing the Class A project. Belmont will operate the community once construction is completed. A development timeline was not released. Aron Will of CBRE National Senior Housing arranged the non-recourse, four-year, floating-rate loan through a regional bank.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of two multifamily properties totaling 980 units in the Houston metro of Pasadena. The 514-unit Alta Vista and the 468-unit Las Villas are both located near Port Houston, with access to State Highway 225, the Sam Houston Tollway and Interstate 45. Both properties were built in 1970 and renovated between 2012 and 2015. Jeffrey Fript and Christian Mazzini of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Empire Square Group, a New York-based private equity firm, in the transaction. Fript procured the buyer, an undisclosed multifamily operator based in Houston.
SAN ANTONIO — Online commercial real estate firm ArborCrowd has offered investors an opportunity to own equity interests in Quarry Station Apartments, a 306-unit multifamily community in San Antonio’s Alamo Heights neighborhood. The total capitalization of the deal is $40.8 million, with ArborCrowd raising $3.2 million in equity and projecting a return of 16 to 19 percent across a two- to four-year hold period. As part of the deal, the current owner will invest in upgrades to the property’s interiors and exteriors. ArborCrowd is a crowdfunding real estate investment organization that is part of the Arbor family of companies, including Arbor Realty Trust, Arbor Commercial Mortgage and AMAC.
Greater Jamaica Development Selects Developer for 500,000 SF Mixed-Use Project in Queens
by Amy Works
NEW YORK CITY — The Greater Jamaica Development Corp. has selected a joint venture between BRP Cos. and Wharton Properties to purchase and develop a site located at 90-02 168th St. in the Queens’ neighborhood of Jamaica. The open-air parking lot will become an approximately 500,000-square-foot development with more than 300 mixed-income residential units and more than 70,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is slated to begin in the second half of 2018.
WARMINSTER, PA. — J.G. Petrucci Co. has opened Jacksonville Station, a 151-unit apartment community located at 375 Jacksonville Road in Warminster. The eight-building property features 74 one-bedroom and 77 two-bedroom apartment units with high ceilings, stainless steel kitchen appliances, quartz countertops and in-unit washers/dryers. Situated on 10 acres, the multifamily complex features on-site surface parking, a state-of-the-art fitness center, resort-style swimming pool and resident clubhouse with flat-screen televisions, couches and meeting spaces.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of an apartment building located at 440 Senator St. in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood. An undisclosed buyer acquired the four-story building for $4.8 million, or $340 per square foot. The 14,280-square-foot property features 20 apartment units. Peter Matheos and David Algarin of TerraCRG brokered the transaction.
ATLANTA — Houston-based real estate developer Hanover Co. is nearing completion of Hanover Buckhead Village, a 353-unit apartment community in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. The 20-story tower is located next to the historic Buckhead Theatre at the corner of Roswell Road and Irby Avenue N.W., and is situated within walking distance to a Whole Foods Market, West Village and The Shops at Buckhead Atlanta. Community amenities include a screening room, business center, 24-hour TechnoGym, rooftop pool deck and outdoor dining and fireplace areas. Individual units feature oversized glass windows, wood-style flooring and granite countertops. Hanover Buckhead Village also includes 13 penthouse units that will feature wraparound windows and views of the Buckhead and Midtown skylines. In addition, the tower will include approximately 12,500 square feet of first-floor retail space. The property is slated to open this fall.
ST. PAUL, MINN. — CBRE has arranged the sale of the Vintage on Selby in St. Paul for $87 million. The 210-unit multifamily property features a 39,506-square-foot Whole Foods Market on the first floor. Completed in 2015, the property is located at the intersection of Snelling and Selby avenues. The building features a mix of units ranging from studios to three-bedroom units. Amenities include a rooftop terrace with swimming pool, fitness center and yoga room, club room, electric car charging stations and bike storage. Abe Appert, Keith Collins, Ted Abramson and Laura Hanneman of CBRE represented the seller, The Vintage on Selby LLC. The entity is related to Ryan Cos. and The Excelsior Group, which developed the property. An affiliate of Zurich North America purchased the property.