BRYAN, TEXAS — SenQuest Senior Living has purchased Waldenbrooke Estates, a 180-unit independent senior living apartment property totaling approximately 164,150 square feet in Bryan. Waldenbrooke, which offers both one- and two-bedroom units in four three-story buildings, has undergone nearly $260,000 in capital improvements since 2011. The complex is located at 2410 Memorial Drive. SenQuest is the senior housing division of Los Angeles-based Titan Real Estate Investment Group Inc.
SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH – A new joint venture between Mountain Real Estate Capital (MREC) and DAI/Candlelight Homes of Utah has acquired the Santorini Village in South Jordan. The JV plans to develop the 199-lot housing community, which will be located at 9800 South Redwood Road. The community will be developed by DAI and built by Candlelight Homes. This acquisition represents MREC’s first investment into the Salt Lake City housing market.
SANFORD, FLA. — A joint venture between Tampa, Fla.-based Blue Rock Partners and Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based Konover South has purchased a 256-unit apartment community in Sanford from Robbins Associates for $18.5 million. Sailpointe at Lake Monroe is located on 401 W. Seminole Blvd. The new owners plan to invest $1.8 million in the property to upgrade its appearance, unit interiors and amenities. The community will also be renamed The Park at Ravello. Shelton Granade of the Orlando office of CB Richard Ellis brokered the transaction, and Prime Capital provided acquisition financing. The purchase represents Blue Rock and Konover South’s 11th joint acquisition in the past four years in the Orlando and Tampa Bay markets.
INDIANAPOLIS — Construction is underway on a $26 million, 235-unit apartment community called Circa in Indianapolis. Located on College Avenue in the Chatham-Arch historic district, Circa will include a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments in five buildings. The project will also include the renovation of the former office of the Mitchel & Scott Machine Co., located on the property. The former office building will house the leasing office and some apartments with rooftop patios. The other four buildings will be new, four to five stories tall, and designed to blend into the historic district. Regions Bank provided the construction loan. Milhaus, Blackline Studio for Architecture, Anderson + Bohlander Landscape Architecture and CEC Engineering collaborated on the design. Milhaus will manage construction. The apartments will include one parking space per unit and will rent for between $800 and $2,000 per month.
PHILADELPHIA — UC Funding has provided $10.4 million for a project involving the acquisition and renovation of two older apartment buildings in northwest Philadelphia totaling 110 units. The borrower was identified as a life-long Philadelphia resident with more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and currently owns 14 apartment buildings and four office/retail properties in the Philadelphia area.
STAMFORD, CONN. — Clarion Partners has acquired Infinity Harbor Point, a 242-unit, Class A multifamily property in Stamford for $98.8 million. The newly-constructed 22-story property is located in Harbor Point, a mixed-use development with more than 1,350 new apartments, 400,000 square feet of Class A office space and 130,000 square feet of retail and dining. The property was 96 percent leased at the time of sale.
NEW YORK CITY — Gaia Real Estate Investment and Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services have sold Gaia by the Park, a six-story apartment building in Manhattan, for $27.2 million. The multifamily property is located at 5 W. 91st St. in the Upper West Side neighborhood. Besen & Associates represented Gaia and Harel in the transaction.
KERRVILLE, TEXAS — Kerrville Gardens at Clearwater Apartments, an 80-unit affordable senior apartment property in Kerrville, Texas, has been approved a $1.8 million loan with Dougherty Mortgage LLC of Minneapolis. The 10-year-term, 9.5-year yield maintenance refinance loan was arranged by Dougherty’s Austin office. Situated halfway between the South Texas Veterans Healthcare Systems campus and the Peterson Regional Medical Center, the Gardens serves active adults over the age of 55.
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Atlanta-based Prudential Real Estate Investors has purchased a seniors housing property in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta from Boston-based REIT AEW Capital Management. Arbor Terrace at Crabapple was constructed in 2009. It contains 67 assisted living units and 26 memory care units in a two-story building. Mike Garbers of Atlanta-based ARA represented the seller. The purchase price was not disclosed.
LOS ANGELES – The 20-unit Echo Ten Thirty Lofts in the Los Angeles submarket of Echo Park has sold to a family office investment firm headed by Shaw Shahery for $9 million. The community is located at 1030 North Alvarado Street. It was fully leased at the time of sale. The property also includes three ground-floor retail spaces, which are all occupied by a single, high-end retailer. The seller, Sunset Alvarado Venture, LLC, was led by Aaron Weinberg of Rock Ridge Investment Group. Adrienne Barr of Hendricks-Berkadia’s West Los Angeles office served as the listing agent.