JONESBORO, ARK. — DLP Capital has acquired Stadium Place, a 200-unit affordable housing property located in Jonesboro. The addition of the community increases the number of DLP Capital-owned apartment homes in the greater Memphis area to 568 units. The sales price and seller were not disclosed. The buyer plans to rebrand the property as DLP Jonesboro. Built in 2000, DLP Jonesboro includes one-, two- and three-bedroom units across 10 buildings. Community amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, playground, picnic areas and a basketball court. DLP Capital plan to make external and internal renovations and improvements throughout the community, including maintenance on HVAC systems, landscaping and drainage and replacing the roofs. Located at 3719 Stadium Blvd., the property is located near downtown Jonesboro’s major retail centers and restaurants and about 1.6 miles from Arkansas State University. The property is close to major highway routes and is about 70.6 miles from Memphis.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — PCCP LLC, in a joint venture with Abode Communities LLC, plans to develop three build-to-rent (BTR) communities near downtown Raleigh totaling 73 detached homes. The three infill communities will include a mix of single-family homes and townhomes, complete with a variety of neighborhood amenities. The three properties will be located within a half-mile from Raleigh’s central business district. The joint venture closed on its first site, Abode at Hargett, in August of this year. The two companies expect to acquire the remaining two sites — Abode at Courtland in Raleigh’s Mordecai District and Abode at North State in the city’s historic Oakwood district — by the beginning of 2022. Abode Communities is an operator of BTR and SFR communities and is based in Raleigh. PCCP is a real estate finance and investment management firm based in Los Angeles.
DALLAS — California-based investment firm Buchanan Street Partners has acquired 4600 Ross, a 294-unit apartment community located in the Dallas Arts District. Built in 2020, the property’s unit mix consists of 51 studios, 166 one-bedroom units and 72 two-bedroom apartments, as well as five three-bedroom townhomes. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, sky lounge, pet park and a package locker system. The property was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
PORTER, TEXAS — Lument has provided a $32.3 million bridge loan for the acquisition of Villas at Valley Ranch, a 312-unit apartment community located in the northeastern Houston suburb of Porter. Units feature one- and two-bedroom floor plans, and amenities include a pool, clubhouse, fitness center, conference room and a theater room. The loan carried a fixed interest rate and a three-year term. The borrower, San Antonio-based investment firm LYND Co., will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements. Marc Suarez of Lument led the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — MetLife Investments & Management has provided a $143.1 million loan for the refinancing of 475 Clermont, a 363-unit multifamily property in Brooklyn. The 12-story building includes 33,000 square feet of retail space and 45,000 square feet of parking. Units feature individual washers and dryers, stainless steel appliances and private terraces/balconies. Amenities include a fitness center, business center, children’s play area, landscaped courtyard with artwork and a theater room. Drew Fletcher and Matthew Hirsch of Greystone arranged the debt, which was structured with a 10-year term and a fixed interest rate. The borrower was New York City-based RXR Realty.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Woda Cooper Cos. Inc. has opened an $11 million affordable housing project named Seven45 Stocking Apartments at 745 Stocking Ave. in Grand Rapids. Residents must earn between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income to qualify for the development. The 50-unit property includes three first-floor units that offer an office suite or retail storefront for residents to utilize for their work. Those spaces were leased to three entrepreneurs, including one resident that operates a beauty bar and two others that work in digital marketing and business services. Amenities include a playground, fitness center, community room and laundry facilities. There are five units with features for those with disabilities. The Michigan State Housing Development Authority provided affordable housing tax credits to support financing for the project. Affordable housing investor CREA provided equity financing. Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust provided the first mortgage and Wells Fargo provided a construction loan. PCI Design Group was the project architect and Sol Consulting + Design served as sustainability consultant. Woda Cooper’s construction division served as the general contractor and the company’s management division will oversee leasing and day-to-day operations.
INDIANAPOLIS — Eastern Union has arranged a $9.7 million bridge loan to facilitate the acquisition of Meridian Towers in Indianapolis. The 195-unit apartment complex is located at 3710 N. Meridian St. and dates to the 1950s. Michael Wyne of Eastern Union arranged the loan with assistance from Boruch Mandel of Eastern Equity Advisors, an affiliate of Eastern Union. The borrower was a joint venture between New York City-based Crown Capital Ventures and Toronto-based Whitestone Capital. The lender was not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm TerraCRG has negotiated the $7.4 million sale of a commercial development site in Brooklyn’s Flatbush area. The site is currently zoned to support residential and retail uses. Ofer Cohen, Daniel Lebor and Peter Matheos of TerraCRG represented the seller, Freda Realty Co. LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was a locally based entity doing business as Horizon at Flatbush LLC.
The Memphis multifamily market has recently captured attention from prospective buyers with some impressive statistics. With 2020 rent growth at 6.6 percent and year-to-date 2021 at 10.5 percent year-over-year, the metropolitan showed resiliency through a turbulent period as peer Sun Belt cities experienced stagnancy and even decreases in rents. This trend has put the metropolitan area on acquisition radars and garnered sales to new-to-market buyers looking to plant a flag in the market. But it raises questions concerning the longevity and sustainability of the rent growth. By taking a further look at the market’s fundamentals, economic drivers and rent trends across market segments, we can shed some light on this over-arching question. Logistics and healthcare Memphis’ stable 2020 and 2021 multifamily performance is grounded by an economy rooted in logistics and medical services. Within the Memphis metropolitan area, 42 percent of the workforce is in the transportation/logistics or education and health service industries, compared to a national aggregate of 20 percent. The growing reliance of these industries insulated the Memphis economy from the worst of repercussions stemming from the pandemic-induced recession. While quarterly wages decreased an average of 6.5 percent in peer markets in the second quarter of last year, …
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Rio Vista, a 246-unit apartment community located in the northeast Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Florida-based Greenwater Investments, and procured the buyer, an unnamed investment firm based in California. Built in 1968, Rio Vista’s apartments feature one- and two-bedroom floor plans that range in size between 684 and 1,016 square feet, according to Apartments.com. Communal amenities include two resort-style pools, a courtyard, playground, dog park and a soccer field. Greenwater invested approximately $4 million to renovate Rio Vista prior to the sale.