FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Tribecca Pointe, a 175-unit multifamily community in Hurst, located northeast of Fort Worth. Built in 1969, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool and a business center. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were Dallas-based investment firms that requested anonymity.
NORMAN, OKLA. — Denver Realty Group has purchased Broadmoor 24 and Plaza 24, a two-property, 165-unit multifamily portfolio located in Norman, a southern suburb of Oklahoma City. Both properties were built around 1970 and feature one- and two-bedroom units as well as pools and onsite laundry facilities. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. With this acquisition, Denver Realty Group now has a portfolio of 768 residential units in Oklahoma
NEWARK, DEL. — Greysteel has arranged the $24.7 million sale of The Vinings at Christiana, a 220–unit multifamily property in Newark, located approximately 40 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The property comprises a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, 125 of which are reserved for tenants earning 60 percent or less of the area median income, while the remaining 95 are rented at market rates. Ari Firoozabadi and Henry Mathies of Greysteel represented the seller, Alden Torch Financial, in the transaction. The team also procured the buyer, CAPREIT.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Transwestern Development Co. has acquired land across the street from the newly renovated Austin Community College campus for the development of a new multifamily project. The new community will feature 147 micro apartments and 3,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2020 and to be complete in 2022. TDC is also developing Block 36, a micro-unit community between East Third and East Fourth streets in downtown Austin. Additionally, TDC completed The Indie, its first micro-unit project in Austin, in 2018.
WARRENVILLE, ILL. — McShane Construction Co. has been selected by Atlantic Residential to build a 259-unit multifamily community in Warrenville, a suburb of Chicago. Known as Everton Flats, the seven-building property will comprise sustainable features such as solar panels and LED lighting. Amenities will include a pool, grilling area, lounge and playground. Floor plans will range from studios to two-bedroom units. Completion is slated for summer 2021. HKM is the project architect.
SANDY AND LAYTON, UTAH, AND FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital (KBREC) has secured a $140.3 million in Fannie Mae Credit Facility for Centerville, Utah-based Keller Investment Properties. The borrower will use the facility, which is expandable to additional properties, to refinance three multifamily assets in Utah and Arizona. The properties are Park at City Center in Sandy, Quail Cove Apartments in Layton and Woodcrest Apartments in Flagstaff. Brain Caudel of KBREC’s Commercial Mortgage Group and Devin Jolley of KBREC’s Income Property Group structured the financing.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the sale of a 37-unit apartment property in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood for $4.3 million. Located at 6415-6425 N. Richmond St., the asset was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. Built in 1937, the property features 24 one-bedroom units and 13 two-bedroom units. Joe Smazal of Interra represented both the private seller and private buyer. At $115,405 per unit, the sale was the largest multifamily sale in the neighborhood this year, according to CoStar Group.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust Inc. (SSSHT), a public, non-traded REIT sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management, has completed a freestanding memory care expansion in Portland. The project extends the offerings at Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, which already offered independent living and assisted living. The expansion adds a 16,000-square-foot building and 23 units. The 7.1-acre community now offers 309 total units. Known as The Pavilion, the memory care project was 38 percent pre-leased before opening. “The ideal seniors housing model is a continuum-of-care campus serving private-pay, middle-income seniors that allows residents to age in-place,” says John Strockis, president and chief investment officer of SSSHT. “We maintain a resident-focused perspective and understand the growing need to provide quality memory care in our communities. Courtyard at Mt. Tabor Pavilion delivers additional units to help offset that demand.” R&H Construction built the project, which Ankrom Moisan Architects designed. Construction took approximately 12 months. The operator is Integral Senior Living.
If you try to find an apartment in Reno you’ll quickly realize this isn’t necessarily an easy task. Reno has experienced more than 8 percent rent growth year over year for the past four years. Average rents in the third quarter were $1,174 per month with vacancy at 4.5 percent, according to CoStar. These escalating numbers are due to employment. The Reno-Sparks MSA has grown by 59,700 jobs in the past 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Tesla Gigafactory was just the beginning. Google, Apple and Switch are among others that have moved in, bringing thousands of jobs with them. Businesses still like the friendly tax environment, clean air and high quality of life. But while we were adding all those jobs, the number of apartment units added during that time was just 3,802, CoStar notes. Look around and you will see apartment construction everywhere in Reno. Most is on the outskirts of town where larger land parcels are still available. This includes Sparks, Lemmon Valley, Spanish Springs and South Reno. A few more central infill sites are making headlines. Park Lane by Reno Land Inc. is in the process of adding 1,700 units in the …
The unprecedented job and population growth that Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) has experienced during this cycle has brought a plethora of new buyers to the Class B multifamily space, and the simple economics of high demand and low supply are re-shaping the landscape of the investment market. According to CoStar Group, the average price per unit in the Class B space has increased by 4.3 percent year-to-date, and deal volume on sales of Class B assets is down from 2017. These trends attest to the strong impact price escalation has had on the market. A more crowded buyer pool is also breeding competition and pushing prices upward. The metroplex’s growth cycle dates back to the beginning of the expansion. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that between 2010 and 2018, the metroplex added about 1.1 million people, or 122,000 per year. Earlier this year, Cushman & Wakefield released a report stating that DFW added approximately 754,000 jobs between 2009 and 2018, or 75,000 per year. This convergence has significantly boosted apartment demand in the metroplex, ushering in waves of competition for older multifamily assets, many of which are positioned for value-add investment and subsequent rent bumps. Price escalation caused by …
