Multifamily

ANN ARBOR, MICH. — LV Collective has partnered with Harrison Street to build Rambler Ann Arbor, a 1,009-bed luxury student housing development across the street from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. The 484,587-square-foot project will feature 273 units across a variety of floor plans ranging from studios to six-bedroom residences. The ground floor of Rambler Ann Arbor will include a lobby with an integrated café named Daydreamer. The study mezzanine will offer spaces for coworking and private study rooms. Residents will also enjoy outdoor terraces, a clubroom and gameday lounge, rooftop pool, hot tub, fitness facility, yoga studio, flex studio, red light sauna and resident lounge. Site work began in October, and completion is slated for fall 2027. The project is pursuing LEED Gold certification and will also include a payment of $7.2 million to the city’s affordable housing fund. Kennedy Wilson and Forum Investment Group provided construction financing. “With the University of Michigan’s rising enrollment and Ann Arbor’s status as a premier college town, creating high-quality living spaces that match this growth and enhance students’ overall experience is essential,” says Thomas Whitesell, head of the debt investment group at Kennedy Wilson. The development team includes Turner …

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SAN ANTONIO — Dallas-based developer Carbon Cos. has completed Greyson Luxury Living, a 291-unit multifamily project in San Antonio. The property is located at 1734 N. Loop 1604 W on the city’s north side. Units come in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans and are furnished with stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, individual washers and dryers and private patios/balconies. Amenities include a pool, fitness center and a dog wash station. Rents start at roughly $1,300 per month for a studio apartment.

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WATERTOWN, MASS. — A joint venture between New York City-based developer O’Connor Group, real estate private equity firm FrontRange Capital Partners and Japanese construction company Takenaka Corp. has broken ground on a 142-unit multifamily project in Watertown, a western suburb of Boston. Elysian Watertown Square will be a five-story building with retail space, and 15 percent of the units will be reserved for households earning between 65 and 80 percent of the area median income. Amenities will include a fitness center, coworking space, pet care spa and two rooftop terraces. ICON Architecture designed the project, and Dellbrook | JKS will be the general contractor. Completion is slated for summer 2026.

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IRVINE, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets and HJ Sims have arranged $473 million in tax-exempt and taxable bond financing for the ground-up development of The James, a luxury rental, 350-bed seniors housing community in Irvine. The transaction is the largest tax-exempt senior living financing of the year and the largest nonprofit, single-site senior living bond issue in history, according to JLL. JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team worked on behalf of Harbert South Bay Partners, LAMB Properties, P3 Foundation and Momentum Senior Living to secure the 35-year financing with HJ Sims hired as sole underwriter of the bonds. The financing consisted of $442.1 million of publicly offered tax-exempt senior series 2024A bonds, $12.9 million in taxable senior series 2024B bonds, and $18 million in subordinate tax-exempt series 2024c and 2024d bonds. JLL also handled the land sale to the partnership on behalf of the seller. The groundbreaking for The James — the first new senior living community in the Irvine market in 28 years — will take place later this month and the target date for completion is June 2027. The community will offer 210 independent living units, 110 assisted living units and 30 memory care units with a mix of …

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LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF. — CBRE has negotiated the sale of Sterling Plaza Apartments, a multifamily property in Laguna Beach. Located at 2607 Solana Way, Sterling Plaza features 12 one- and two-bedroom apartments, including a two-bedroom penthouse. The three-story, 9,823-square-foot property was built in 1962 and 1963. The property offers 14 parking spaces (11 carports plus three open spaces), an onsite laundry facility and the units are individually metered for electricity. Dan Blackwell and Mike O’Neill of CBRE represented the San Francisco Bay Area-based seller and the Los Angeles County-based buyer in the deal.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Inland Real Estate Acquisitions has purchased the Sawyer on Lincoln, a 673-bed student housing community located adjacent to the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia. Inland acquired the newly delivered property on behalf of an affiliate. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Delivered in 2023, the 277-unit Sawyer on Lincoln features one-, two- and three-bedroom, fully furnished apartments with bed-to-bath parity. Shared amenities include private and group study rooms, a 24-hour fitness center, gated resident parking garage with 525 parking spaces, package locker system for parcels, social lounge with kitchen and TVs, resort-style pool with lounge seating and a hot tub and an outdoor courtyard with games. The Sawyer on Lincoln was fully occupied at the time of sale.

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GALLATIN, TENN. — Kolter Multifamily LLC, along with its affiliates, has broken ground on Alton Nexus, a 300-unit apartment community in Gallatin, a Middle Tennessee city approximately 30 miles northeast of Nashville. The project represents the first apartment development outside of Florida for Kolter Multifamily, a subsidiary of Delray Beach, Fla.-based The Kolter Group. Alton Nexus will feature a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a resort-style swimming pool with outdoor firepits, clubroom with a bar, coworking spaces and a fitness center with a yoga studio. The project is part of the Nexus master-planned development that features a business park, shops and restaurants. Kolter Multifamily expects to deliver Alton Nexus in winter 2026.

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OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Berkadia has arranged the sale of The Highlands, a 448-unit multifamily property in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. The community features one-, two- and three-bedroom units with two saltwater pools, a fitness center, renovated clubhouse and business center. Jason Parr, Scott MacDonald, John Hansen, Michael Spero and Niko Vrentas of Berkadia represented the seller, California-based St. Regis Properties LLC, and the buyer group, which acquired the property through San Francisco-based sponsor Hamilton Zanze & Co. Clay Akiwenzie of Berkadia arranged $53.3 million in permanent acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer. Fannie Mae provided the 10-year loan.

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ANOKA AND CRYSTAL, MINN. — Colliers has brokered the sale of two multifamily properties in Minnesota for $15.9 million. Meadowview totals 60 units and is located in Anoka, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. Valley Place Apartments totals 71 units and is located in Crystal, about five miles north of downtown Minneapolis. Devon Dvorak, Mox Gunderson, Dan Linnell and Adam Haydon of Colliers represented the seller, Bader Management Inc. Los Angeles-based Coast View Strategies was the buyer. Since 2015, ownership has invested more than $2 million renovating most of the units. At the time of sale, both properties were more than 95 percent leased.

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GARLAND, TEXAS — New York City-based Dwight Capital has provided a $35.2 million HUD-insured construction loan for Millennium Village, a 199-unit multifamily project that will be located in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Garland. The market-rate property will consist of four residential buildings and a parking garage on a 4.5-acre site. Residences will comprise 17 studios, 132 one-bedroom units, 35 two-bedroom apartments and 15 two-bedroom townhome residences, each with private two-car garages. Amenities will include a clubhouse, fitness center, pool, rooftop lounge with an outdoor deck, electric vehicle charging stations and a dog park. Brandon Baksh and Brian Yee of Dwight originated the debt through HUD’s 221(d)(4) program on behalf of the local developer, Pinnacle Facility Engineering.

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