NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has arranged the sale of a 58-unit multifamily building located at 15-25 Crown St. in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Sterling Equities acquired the 51,000-square-foot multifamily building from BCB Property Management for $20.7 million, or $357,000 per unit. The six-story building features one four-bedroom unit, nine three-bedroom units, 19 two-bedroom units, 27 one-bedroom units and two studio apartments. Adam Hess, San Shalumov, Eddie Setton and Kirill Galperin of TerraCRG were the sole brokers in the transaction.
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NEW YORK CITY — GFI Realty Services has arranged the sale of two apartment buildings located at 684A and 684B Myrtle Ave. in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. Local investors acquired the properties from Joseph Rizzuto for $3.8 million. The two four-story apartment buildings feature 12 residential units and a ground-floor retail unit. Isaac Moskowitz of GFI Realty Services represented the seller, while Yosef Katz, also of GFI, represented the buyers in the transaction.
ORLANDO, FLA. — CBRE was Freddie Mac’s highest-producing multifamily mortgage seller in 2015, originating $6.96 billion in loans last year. Freddie Mac made the announcement at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s commercial real estate finance and multifamily housing convention in Orlando on Feb. 2. In total, Freddie Mac bought $47.3 billion in new multifamily loans in 2015, comprising 650,000 rental units. “CBRE had another terrific year placing loans with Freddie Mac and earning its top producer award for the seventh consecutive year,” says Mitchell Kiffe, a senior managing director of debt and structured finance at CBRE. “CBRE utilized Freddie Mac’s expanded product offerings, such as its small balance loan program, to achieve the number one ranking. We look forward to another big origination year as multifamily loan demand remains strong.” Freddie Mac securitizes about 90 percent of the multifamily loans it purchases, thus transferring the vast majority of the expected credit risk from taxpayers to private investors. “We have a tremendous partnership with our lender partners, who work tirelessly every day to provide apartment financing,” says John Cannon, senior vice president of Freddie Mac’s multifamily production and sales. “Support for this market is more important than ever, especially with the increased …
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The RADCO Cos. has purchased two apartment communities in Spartanburg totaling 700 units for a combined $60.9 million. The properties, formerly named Chartwell at North End and Chartwell Oak Forest, have been renamed to Willows at North End and Parkside at Laurel West, respectively. RADCO financed the acquisition of the Class B portfolio using private capital and by assuming existing long-term financing from Fannie Mae. Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction. RADCO plans to spend an estimated $6.4 million to upgrade the amenity spaces, landscaping, paths and interior finishes at the two properties. The same developer built the two communities in several phases between 1996 and 2003. With these recent acquisitions, RADCO now owns 15,077 multifamily units in eight states, including five properties in Upstate South Carolina.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has provided a $15.3 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Ashton Reserve at Northlake, a 151-unit apartment community in Charlotte. The property is Phase II of a larger apartment development. Chris Black of KeyBank’s commercial mortgage group arranged the fixed-rate loan.
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC), a provider of commercial real estate financing and capital markets expertise, has arranged a bridge loan to refinance an apartment complex in Lubbock. Peter Muntz, a director in MMCC’s Chicago Downtown office, arranged the debt placement. The non-recourse, interest-only debt placement was structured with a 14-month term and a fixed interest rate. The property is a garden-style apartment complex with more than 300 units.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL. — Square Mile Capital Management LLC has provided a $50 million refinancing loan for One Arlington, a luxury multifamily property in Arlington Heights, approximately 26 miles northwest of Chicago. Stoneleigh Companies LLC was the borrower. One Arlington is an adaptive reuse conversion of a former Sheraton Hotel. The conversion was completed in June 2015. The property features 214 residential units, 17,200 square feet of ground floor retail space and an attached 313-space underground parking garage.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has arranged the sale of all of the shares of a residential co-op building located at 61-63 Crosby St. in SoHo. The four-story, 20,600-square-foot property sold for $42 million, or more than $2,000 per square foot. The building consists of loft apartments on the second, third and fourth floors, and an artist studio/loft apartment and one retail space on the ground floor. The property also features 6,537 square feet of development rights. Peter Hauspurg and Michael Coghill of Eastern Consolidated, along with former Eastern brokers David Schechtman and Abie Kassin, represented the co-op owners, while Adelaide Polsinelli, also of Eastern, represented the buyer, Crosby 61 LLC, in the transaction.
NEWARK, N.J. — Prudential Mortgage Capital Co. (PMCC) exceeded $14.6 billion in total loan originations in 2015. The company provided financing driven by conventional agency loans and increasing originations in international loans. Some of the company’s 2015 achievements include lending more than $12.7 billion within the United States across multifamily, office, industrial and other sectors; international lending of $1.9 billion, including first time originations in Australia, France, Spain and re-entry into the Canadian market; nearly $3.4 billion in conventional and affordable multifamily loans across Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA; and agricultural debt and equity investments of $1 billion. PMCC is the commercial mortgage lending business of PGIM, the global investment management business of Prudential Financial Inc.
DENVER — Advenir has purchased a 292-unit apartment community in Denver for $42 million. The community, formerly known as Cypress Point, has been rebranded as Advenir at Cherry Creek South. It is located at 1211 S. Quebec Way. Advenir at Cherry Creek South was built in 1979. The property underwent $2 million in exterior, interior and common-area renovations. Advenir plans to pump an additional $3 million into the community.