JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN, N.J. — Livingston, N.J.-based Gebroe-Hammer Associates has brokered the sale of a four-property Hudson County, N.J., multifamily portfolio. A private investment group purchased the 159-unit portfolio for a total of $21 million. The transaction includes 125-129 Magnolia Avenue in Jersey City, which sold for $12.7 million; 115-117-119 Magnolia Avenue in Jersey City, which sold for $5.4 million; 50 Stuyvesant Avenue in Jersey City, which sold for $1.04 million and 328-332 Jackson Avenue in Hoboken, which sold for $1.8 million. Nicholas Nicolaou of Gebroe-Hammer Associates represented the seller, a long-time client, and the buyer in the transaction.
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NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the sale of a three-story, walk-up apartment building located at 257 West 113th St. in Harlem. Wanders in the West LLC sold the property to 257 West 113th Street LLC for $1.5 million. Built in 1900, the 2,691-square-foot building features nine apartments. Michael Kerwin of Rosewood represented the seller, while Aaron Jungreis, also of Rosewood, represented the buyer in the transaction.
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Morristown-based G.S. Wilcox & Co. has arranged $87.1 million in financing for a healthcare portfolio in eastern Pennsylvania. The non-recourse financing was place in seven, non-crossed collateralized loans secured by nine hospital and medical buildings. The tenant, Coordinated Health, is a privately held, physician-owned, specialized hospital, network healthcare provider. The nine-building portfolio consists of 411,000 square feet. The portfolio includes Allentown Hospital and Bethlehem Hospital and seven additional buildings housing a variety of medical services, including physical therapy and rehabilitation, laboratory, orthopaedics, diagnostics, sports medicine, primary care and women’s health. David Fryer and Joe Smerdon of G.S. Wilcox & Co. handled the financing assignment. The financing, which was placed with a CMBS lender, has a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization.
NEW YORK CITY — TerraCRG has brokered the sale of a development site located at 120 Union Ave. in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. Located between Union Avenue and Broadway, the site sold for $15.5 million or $220 per buildable square foot. Adam America, Slate Property Group and Naveh Shutter Limited purchased the site and plan to develop a 100-unit residential property with 2,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. The development site is zoned R6A/C2-4, which allows for more than 93,000 buildable square feet. Additionally, the 26,000-square-foot lot is packaged with a lot at 100 Union Ave., which is scheduled to close later this year. The seller, Robles Realty, has owned the property since 1998. Ofer Cohen, Melissa DiBella Warren, Dan Marks, Peter Matheos, Michael Hernandez and Joey Terzi of TerraCRG represented the seller in the transaction.
NEW CANANN, CONN. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $4.1 million in financing for a retail and office building located in downtown New Canaan. The property is a 9,431-square-foot fully occupied mixed-used building on Elm Street. The ground-floor space is leased to Ralph Lauren and Nail Hollywood, while the second-floor space is leased to six office tenants and one retail tenant. The 4-percent fixed-rate loan was structured with a seven-year term and 18-year amortization for the borrower, Campana 109 LLC. Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the financing.
HARTFORD, CONN. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a brokerage division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of a multifamily portfolio in Hartford. Built in the 1960s, the 903-unit portfolio features approximately 800,000 square feet of rental space. Victor Nolletti, Steve Witten and Eric Pentore of IPA represented the seller and buyer in the transaction. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Trammell Crow Co. and its joint venture partner, Clarion Partners, has signed Dawn Food Products Inc. to a long-term lease at 30 Knox Drive within South Washington Park in Piscataway. Dawn Foods will occupy 130,681 square feet of the 227,042-square-foot industrial building. Located in the Northern New Jersey Industrial Market, South Washington Park features two industrial buildings: the 305,750-square-foot 10 Knox Drive and 30 Knox Drive. Each building includes high ceiling heights, efficient loading areas, wide column spacing and ESFR sprinkler systems. Additionally, the site features full building circulation, high trailer parking ratios and subdivided parcels.
Since 2010, the Brooklyn real estate market has been surging. Over the course of the last four years, the total dollar amount of commercial real estate sales in Brooklyn has increased 397 percent with transaction volume up 151 percent. In 2010, $1 billion of commercial sales were completed, compared to more than $5 billion in 2013 — and projections for commercial sales in Brooklyn for 2014 are more than $6 billion. Retail property sales in the first half of 2014 compared to the first half of 2013 have increased 33 percent in dollar volume and have seen a 12 percent increase in transaction volume. Brooklyn has become a true retail destination, with more national retailers than ever opening up shop. Barney’s Co-op is credited as being one of the first upscale retailers in the borough four years ago. J. Crew, Sephora, Nord-strom Rack and Whole Foods are several of the other nationally known retailers to make the move to Brooklyn. Apple is looking to open its first Brooklyn store, and the potential location of the store continues to be a widely discussed topic. Brooklyn offers a dense concentration of consumers for retailers to serve. According to an economic development report …
NEW YORK — Prodigy Network has purchased 17 John St. in downtown Manhattan for $85.3 million. The property was purchased with more than $25 million in crowd-funded equity, senior financing from Deutsche Bank and subordinate financing from a New York-based institutional investor. Accredited investors from more than 12 different states and 10 countries invested in participations starting at $50,000 in this New York building. Upon completion of construction, the extended-stay property will span 23 stories and feature 191 furnished units.
WALTHAM, MASS. — New Boston Fund Inc. has sold Watermill Center in Waltham, a suburb of Boston. Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. purchased the property for an undisclosed sales price. Constructed in 1984, Watermill Center is a six-story, 206,634-square-foot, Class A office building. Since purchasing the property in March 2000, New Boston has boosted the occupancy from 67 percent to 90 percent, with 150,000 square feet having been leased in the past nine months. Additionally, New Boston completed extensive upgrades and improvements to enhance the building’s entrance and main lobby, and has added several amenities. Robert Griffin, Edward Maher and Matt Pullen of Cushman & Wakefield represented New Boston in the transaction.