NORTHBRIDGE, MASS. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has arranged the sale of a seniors housing campus featuring 154 skilled nursing beds and 26 assisted living units in the Worcester suburb of Northbridge. The community, which was not named, was built in 1970 on 13 acres. It totals 93,000 square feet following expansions in 1995 and 2005. Owner-operator Salmon Health and Retirement sold the property as a non-core community in its portfolio. A Massachusetts-based investor acquired the asset for an undisclosed price.
NORTH KINGSTON, R.I. — New Jersey-based investment firm Tryko Partners has purchased Scalabrini Villa, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in North Kingston, about 25 miles south of Providence. The property opened in 1994 at a site along Narragansett Bay and consists of 60 two-bed units. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Tryko Partners plans to make capital improvements to the facility, which offers memory care, long-term and sub-acute care services.
WHIPPANY, N.J. — Lee & Associates New Jersey has opened a new 3,361-square-foot office at 110 S. Jefferson Road in Whippany, located in Morris County. The team is subleasing a newly built-out space and relocating from a smaller Cedar Knolls location to accommodate its growing brokerage team. Suzanne Kiall of Lee & Associates and Roger Cantor of Cornerstone Real Estate negotiated the terms of the sublease. The full-service real estate firm has three offices in New Jersey including this one, with the headquarters space located in Elmwood Park.
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Manufactured Housing Communities Garner Investor Interest
Interest in affordable paths to homeownership and the growing popularity of lower density living are raising the profile of the manufactured housing option among American households and investors. At the same time, the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are making concerted efforts to better serve this historically underfinanced market at both the individual homeowner and community levels. The combination of robust cash flow growth (particularly in Sunbelt and Western markets), cap rate compression, and liquidity provided by the GSEs makes a compelling case for manufactured housing community (MHC) acquisitions and refinances. As increased competition has left market participants looking for an edge amidst compressing cap rates, the importance of working with an experienced MHC lender with access to short- and long-term loan programs has become more apparent. The following provides an in-depth analysis of the recent performance of rental MHCs, sales volume and pricing trends, and loan and underwriting trends in the MHC space. The Performance of the Site Rental Market The COVID-19 pandemic affected American housing preferences in profound ways. Increasingly, households are seeking lower density options with larger floor plans, home offices, and dedicated space for entertaining or distanced learning. This phenomenon …
NEW YORK CITY — Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. (EJME) and J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives have broken ground on a 240,000-square-foot office project at 29 Jay St. in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. The site originally housed the distribution operations of Arbuckle Coffee & Tea and was rezoned in 2018 to allow for higher-density office use. Architecture firm Marvel designed the building, which will also house 12,000 square feet of retail space. Construction is expected to last about two years.
BOSTON — MassHousing has provided $31.4 million for the refinancing and preservation of Franklin Park, an affordable housing community in Boston’s Dorchester/Roxbury neighborhood. The unit mix consists of 95 one-bedroom units, 99 two-bedroom apartments, 10 three-bedroom residences, five four-bedroom apartments and 10 five-bedroom units. The financing will preserve the affordable status for 155 of the property’s 219 units for another 29 years. In addition, the borrower, The Community Builders Inc., will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements.
HAMBURG, N.J. — Progress Capital has placed a $31 million loan for the refinancing of Carlton Village Apartments, a 240-unit multifamily complex located in the Northern New Jersey community of Hamburg. The property consists of 21 buildings that are situated on a 37-acre site and that house studio, one- and two-bedroom units. Brad Domenico and Gabby Cali of Progress Capital arranged the debt on behalf of the undisclosed borrower, a private investor who has owned the property since 1985 and made various capital improvements since that time.
STAMFORD, CONN. — Boston-based mortgage banking firm EagleBridge Capital has arranged a $14.5 million permanent loan for a 140,000-square-foot industrial flex property in Stamford, located in the southern coastal part of the state. The property consists of six warehouse buildings that include office space and that range in size from 3,800 to 45,150 square feet. Tenants include CenturyLink, Lowa Boots, Site One, Kaster Moving and Alba Stone. Brian Walsh of EagleBridge Capital arranged the loan through an undisclosed national bank. The borrower was also not disclosed.
HOWELL, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale a multifamily development site in Howell, located in Monmouth County, that can accommodate the construction of 360 multifamily units. Chez Eider and Jason Petrick of Marcus & Millichap’s represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction and procured a private developer as the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.
NEW YORK CITY — Google has announced plans to acquire St. John’s Terminal, a 1.3 million-square-foot office redevelopment underway in Manhattan that will anchor the search engine giant’s Hudson Square campus. Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) intends to purchase the development site at 550 Washington St., which the company signed a lease agreement for in 2018, for approximately $2.1 billion. The company is exercising its purchase agreement with the landlord and developer, an ownership group comprising Toronto-based Oxford Properties Group and CPP Investments, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal also reports the transaction is the most expensive sale of a single U.S. office building since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing data from research firm Real Capital Analytics. The sale is also among the priciest for a single office property in U.S. history. Google plans to open its offices at 550 Washington by mid-2023. Although the company expects to operate the office with a flexible hybrid approach to in-office versus work-from-home concepts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google says that “coming together in person to collaborate and build community will remain an important part of our future.” The St. John’s Terminal transaction is expected to close in …