YONKERS, N.Y. — Locally based brokerage firm OPEN Impact Real Estate has arranged the $52.6 million sale of a 265,000-square-foot campus in Yonkers. The campus, a portion of which extends into The Bronx, consists of 25 buildings on a 28-acre site. The property, which serves as the headquarters of social services agency Rising Ground, houses several recreational amenities, including indoor and outdoor pools, a baseball field and an indoor basketball court. Lindsay Ornstein, Stephen Powers, Arthur Skelskie and Alexander Smith of OPEN Impact represented Rising Ground in the transaction. The buyer, National Resources, plans to take occupancy of the campus at a future date, with Rising Ground retaining three acres for various programs.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Avis Budget Group has signed a 155,234-square-foot office headquarters lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Parsippany. The holding company of the car rental agency will occupy space at LATITUDE, a two-building, 35-acre campus. Jon Meisel and Joseph Sarno of CBRE represented Avis in the lease negotiations. David Simson and Jaime Drummond of Newmark represented the landlord, a joint venture between Rubenstein Partners and Vision Real Estate Partners, which acquired the property in 2018 and implemented a capital improvement program.
WILMINGTON, MASS. — Locally based developer The Procopio Cos. has completed Lume, a 49-unit multifamily project in Wilmington, a northern suburb of Boston. The 74,000-square-foot, transit-served development consists of 39 garden-style apartments and 10 townhomes. Amenities include a fitness center, clubroom and a pet spa. DMS Design served as the project architect, with interiors by Conant Design Group. Rents start at $3,000 per month for a two-bedroom unit.
Northeast Private Client Group Negotiates $2.3M Sale of Mixed-Use Property in Gardner, Massachusetts
GARDNER, MASS. — Regional brokerage firm Northeast Private Client Group has negotiated the $2.3 million sale of a mixed-use property in Gardner, located in Massachusetts’ Worcester County. The property consists of 17 multifamily units, 12 retail spaces and seven office spaces. Tim McGeary of Northeast Private Client Group represented the buyer and seller, both of which requested anonymity, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — NewsCorp. has signed a 486,000-square-foot office lease extension at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. Under the terms of the new lease, which goes into effect in December 2027, the media giant will remain at the 44-story, 2.2 million-square-foot building through 2042, with further extension options available thereafter. Timothy Dempsey, Mary Ann Tighe, Ken Rapp, Christopher Mansfield and Ariel Ball of CBRE represented NewsCorp. in the lease negotiations. Josh Kuriloff, Ethan Silverstein, Mitch Arkin and Heather Thomas of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Ivanhoe Cambridge, which plans to begin a capital improvement program later this year. The deal coincides with a 670,000-square-foot extension with Fox Corp., which is also part of the Murdoch family media empire, at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.
BROOMALL, PA. — CBRE has arranged the $11.6 million sale of Marple Commons, a three-building, 57,760-square-foot medical office complex in Broomall, a western suburb of Philadelphia. Stephen Marzullo, Adam Silverman and Stephen Kriz of CBRE represented the seller, Pennsylvania-based Hudson Cos., in the transaction. The buyer was Maryland-based Thomas Park Investments. Marple Commons was 98 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Premier Orthopaedics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Main Line Healthcare, Kidney Care Specialists and Labcorp.
CARLSTADT, N.J. — Third-party logistics provider AxleHire has signed a 79,076-square-foot industrial lease in the Northern New Jersey community of Carlstadt. The property at 100 Industrial Road totals 142,815 square feet and features a clear height of 21 feet, as well as 110-foot truck court depths and ample onsite parking. Scott Perkins, Chris Todd and William Ericksen of NAI James E. Hanson represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Robin Dodson, Stephen Elman and John McManus of Cushman & Wakefield represented AxleHire.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Stav Equities has negotiated the $9 million sale of a multifamily development site located at 28 Herbert St. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. The site is approved for the development of a 15-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail space and nine below-grade parking spots. Jacob Stavsky of Stav Equities brokered the deal in conjunction with Andrew Levine, Josh Lipton and Jax Hindmarch of Invictus Property Advisors. The buyer and seller were not disclosed.
HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. — The Container Store will open a 15,676-square-foot store at Huntington Shopping Center on Long Island. The retailer joins REI and Whole Foods Market as anchor tenants at the center, which is owned by Federal Realty Investment Trust and is currently undergoing a $75 million repositioning. Furniture retailer LoveSac also recently signed a 1,412-square-foot showroom lease at Huntington Shopping Center, which has also received commitments from restaurants Burger Village (2,756 square feet) and Just Salad (2,382 square feet).
By Colin Grayson, Lument If you consider multifamily real estate assets to be a good investment, you are in good company. At mid-year, asset managers and private equity firms alone held an estimated $325 billion of levered dry powder set aside for this purpose, enough cash to finance nearly every acquisition closed in the United States in 2021, the highest investment sales volume on record. Despite nearly unanimous support for the asset class, however, multifamily transaction volume in the third quarter slumped year-over-year for the first time since the peak of the pandemic. The mainspring was a sharp rise in mortgage financing costs triggered by high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s commitment to raising rates to bring it under control. Generic rates for 65 percent loan-to-value (LTV) first mortgage debt stood on 5.71 percent at the end of November, representing an increase of 248 basis points since the beginning of the year. Even as financing costs soared, asset pricing changed very little. Initial net cash flow yields of transactions closed in the third quarter of 2022 averaged only 4.6 percent, according to Real Capital Analytics, an increase of 10 basis points from second-quarter 2022 levels. At the same time, cap …