Multifamily

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the sale of Hawthorne at the District, a 284-unit multifamily community located in the East Riverside area of Austin. Built in 1987, the property features one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, clubhouse with a lounge and coffee bar, outdoor grilling areas, a dog park and Amazon package lockers. Patton Jones of NKF represented the sellers, North Carolina-based Hawthorne Residential Partners and New York-based Midway, in the transaction. Austin-based Wildhorn Capital purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Patrick Short of NKF arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the new ownership, which will implement a value-add program at the property. Hawthorne at the District was 97.5 percent occupied at the time of sale.

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Victoria Village Apartments in Springfield for $1.8 million. The 106-unit apartment community is located at 2473 Ladley Court. It is situated on 6.4 acres and consists of 24 buildings. An on-site leasing and maintenance office spans approximately 1,200 square feet. Bryan Kunze and Scott Harris of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The team also secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company.

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NEW YORK CITY — JLL has brokered the $13.8 million sale of two multifamily buildings in the Lennox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. The five-story building at 1364 York Ave. is a 9,180-square-foot property that features 18 residences and two ground-floor retail spaces totaling 608 square feet, which are occupied by Orlando News and Jamil Liquors. The five-story building at 1368 York Avenue is a 11,191-square-foot property that features 19 residences and two ground-floor retail spaces totaling 4,184 square feet, which are occupied by JSK Produce and Green Produce. Guthrie Garvin and Tom Gammino led a JLL team that represented the seller, Caro Enterprises, in the deal. The buyer was undisclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — ABS Altman Warwick, a division of ABS Partners Real Estate, has arranged a $13 million refinancing loan for an apartment building in Manhattan. An undisclosed life insurance company provided the nonrecourse loan, which features interest-only payments for 10 years. Located at 232 East 12th St., the 10-story building includes 68 apartment units and also houses two medical offices on the ground floor. Morris Dweck of ABS arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Capri Apartments LLC.

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MAULDIN, S.C. — Summit Contracting Group has broken ground on Novo Mauldin, a planned 330-unit multifamily community in Mauldin. The property is situated on Main Street, 10 miles south of Greenville. Planned amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center and a pool. The complex will comprise 11 three-story buildings and nine private, five-bay garage buildings. Construction is scheduled to be complete in November 2021. Atlanta-based Shelton McNally Real Estate Partners is developing Novo Mauldin, and Jacksonville-based Group 4 Design Inc. is the project’s architect.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Newport Beach, Calif.-based PLC Apartments has acquired The Centre Apartments, located at 1921 E. Van Buren St. in Colorado Springs. Locally based Skyline Real Estate Investments sold the community for $21.9 million. Built in 1952, The Centre Apartments features 168 units in a low-density, park-like setting. Community amenities include a clubhouse and fitness center. The buyer plans to continue ongoing interior unit renovations. Bill Morkes and Craig Stack of Colliers International represented the seller in the deal.

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GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) Multifamily has brokered the sale of Royal Palms, a multifamily property in Glendale. An undisclosed buyer acquired the community from 5902 Royal Palms LP for $14.3 million. Brett Polacheck, Chris Canter and Brad Goff of NKF Multifamily represented the seller in the transaction. Located at 5902 W. Royal Palm Road, the 1970s-vintage property features 138 apartments.

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CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has arranged the sale of 933 W. Belle Plaine Avenue, a 17-unit apartment building in Chicago’s Buena Park neighborhood, for $6.7 million. Constructed in 2017, the building features luxury units with secured keyless entry, private balconies, gourmet kitchens and in-unit washers and dryers. The property also includes a pet washing station, bike storage, 13-car garage and seven outdoor parking spaces. Doug Imber, Kate Varde and Clay Maxfield of Essex brokered the transaction. A local investor purchased the building from an undisclosed seller as part of 1031 tax-deferred exchange.

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a widespread impact on the off-campus student housing industry. Many off-campus owners and operators are grappling with a growing number of universities canceling in-person classes, and in some instances, ordering students to vacate their campuses and residence halls altogether. On Wednesday, March 25, Student Housing Business (SHB) held a complimentary webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on the off-campus student housing industry. The webinar had nearly 2,000 attendees. During the panel discussion, six owners and operators weighed in on best practices and operations advice for employees at both the corporate- and property-level, as well as the potential impact of the pandemic on turn — the student housing industry’s intense summer period when units are cleaned, refurbished and rehabbed — and leasing for fall 2020.  Randy Shearin, editor of SHB, led the discussion. Speakers included Casey Petersen, COO of Peak Campus; Chris Richards, executive director of real estate operations at Greystar; Adam Byrley, COO of The Preiss Co.; Grant Collard, CEO of Redstone Residential; Alex O’Brien, COO of Cardinal Group; and Miles Orth, EVP and COO of Campus Apartments. Click here to listen to the full webinar: COVID-19 and the Impact on Student Housing Residents, Employees, Operations, …

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The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul continue to be a very attractive marketplace for multifamily investing due to an average vacancy across the metro of 3.1 percent, as well as average 2019 rent growth of 5.8 percent, according to a recent report issued by Marquette Advisors. The Twin Cities currently has nearly 30,000 multifamily units in the development pipeline that are expected to be delivered between 2020 and 2022. With all of this development activity and an abundance of local and regional banks in the area, the Twin Cities continues to be a very well-banked market, particularly with regard to apartment construction. Local and regional banks are all very active. In addition, national banks are eager to invest in the healthy, consistent Twin Cities multifamily market. But despite capital being relatively plentiful and accessible, local, regional and national developers are exploring more efficient ways to capitalize on the abundance of development activity. They also pursue ways to stretch their own equity through a variety of financing alternatives. Developers may be tapped out with their current banking relationships, or as projects get larger and more expensive, desired loan sizes may drift higher than their banks’ lending limits. Lenders and …

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