CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the $335,000 sale of 8057 S. Carpenter St., a 15-unit apartment community in Chicago. The recently renovated property was built in 1928 and consists of one-bedroom units. Upgrades to the building include a new boiler, new hot water tank, newer windows, doors and new porches. Brian Kochendorfer of Essex was the broker in the transaction.
AUSTIN — ARA has arranged the sale of Serena Park, a 36-unit apartment community located at 9210 Northgate Blvd. in Austin. Andrew Shih of ARA represented the seller, a private partnership based in California, in the transaction. The buyer was not named. Built in 1972, Serena Park is a garden-style apartment community that includes one-bedroom units. The property is individually metered for electric and master metered for gas and water. The buyer plans to update the units. The asset was 92 percent occupied at the time of sale.
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured $25.9 million in CMBS financing for Enclave West, a 552-bed student housing apartment complex in Edwardsville. Randy Martin of KeyBank Real Estate Capital Markets arranged a $22.7 million non-recourse, fixed-rate CMBS first mortgage and a $3.24 million full-recourse, fixed-rate life company mezzanine loan for the undisclosed borrower. Located 20 miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, the 98.4 percent occupied property was built in phases in 2013 and 2014. The property is the closest off-campus student housing property to the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale an apartment building located at 425-431 West 205th St. in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood. The six-story, 72-unit elevator building sold for $12.6 million, or $175,000 per unit. Peter Von Der Ahe, Scott Edelstein, Seth Glasser and Rafi Moskowitz of Marcus & Millichap’s Manhattan office represented the seller, a private individual, and the buyer, a family partnership, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has brokered the sale of a five-story multifamily building, located at 309 West 111th St. in New York City’s Morningside Heights section. The 12,310-square-foot property sold for $6.5 million. The 16-unit property offers a mix of two- and three-bedroom units. Shimon Shkury, Victor Sozio, Michael Tortorici, Josh Berkowitz and Marko Agbaba of Ariel Property Advisors represented the seller and procured the buyer, both real estate investment groups, in the deal.
NEWPORT NEWS AND VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Berkadia has brokered the sale of two apartment communities in Newport News and Virginia Beach totaling $29.8 million. The assets included the 156-unit Windsor Crossing at 23 Cedarwood Way in Newport News and the 288-unit Plaza Apartments at 124 Palm Beach Place in Virginia Beach. CJEHN Alpha LLC of Yorktown, Va., purchased Windsor Crossing from Denver-based NHP Windsor Crossing LP for $14.9 million. Patriot Pointe Apartments LLC of Charlottesville, Va., purchased Plaza Apartments from Newport News-based KVB Realty Co. for $14.9 million. Alan Meetze and David Hudgins of Berkadia represented the sellers in both transactions.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $14.7 million acquisition loan for Park South at Deerwood Apartments, a 240-unit multifamily property located at 7932 Southside Blvd. in Jacksonville. Ory Schwartz of NorthMarq Capital’s Los Angeles office arranged the 10-year loan with five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Schwartz arranged the loan through an unnamed CMBS lender on behalf of the borrower, a private investor based on the West Coast.
STATESBORO, GA. AND WILMINGTON, N.C. — Progress Student Living has sold two luxury student housing communities that it developed recently in North Carolina and Georgia. Sold in the portfolio transaction were Progress910, a 168-unit rental community with 528 bedroom/bathroom suites near the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) in Wilmington, and Monarch301, a 180-unit rental community with 546 bedroom/bathroom suites near Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Progress 910 was completed in August 2014, while Monarch301 was finished in August 2013. Each property is currently 97 percent occupied. Ryan Reid and Ryan Lang of CBRE’s national student housing group in Dallas brokered the two transactions. According to media reports, Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Phillips Acquisitions was the buyer. The transaction price was not disclosed.
ARLINGTON, VA. — LCOR, a real estate company specializing in property development, investment and management, has received final site plan approval from the Arlington County Board for The Altaire, located at 400 Army Navy Drive in Arlington. The multifamily project is slated to break ground by mid-year 2015, with completion planned for the second quarter of 2018. The project will consist of two towers, with the first tower including 150 condominium units and the second tower offering 300 rental units. Located on 1.7 acres of land at the border of Crystal City and Pentagon City, the 20-story building will be LEED Gold-certified. Amenities will be shared by the two towers and will include a landscaped courtyard with an outdoor pool area and fire pits, a fitness center, club room and a sky lounge. Both buildings will also feature rooftop terraces overlooking D.C. Each residential tower will have a separate entrance, but they will share access to the common reception area with 24-hour security, concierge services and staffing.
SAN FRANCISCO — Ivanhoé Cambridge and partner Veritas Investments have acquired 11 multifamily properties in San Francisco for a total of $190 million. These acquisitions are part of Ivanhoé’s ongoing residential property aggregation strategy in San Francisco through the exclusive partnership it created with Veritas in 2014. Though the addresses were not divulged, Ivanhoé says the properties are located “in some of the most favorable neighborhoods in the center of San Francisco, ranging from the traditional exclusive districts of Lower and Upper Nob Hill and Russian Hill, to the trend-setting lifestyle neighborhoods of NOPA, Noe Valley and the Mission.” The partnership now owns 20 properties in San Francisco, for a total of 580 housing units. The initial nine properties the partnership had previously acquired are valued at nearly $50 million. Ivanhoé cites the demand for space among technology and creative companies as the driving force behind its strategy to snatch up multifamily properties in the city’s favorable neighborhoods.