Multifamily

675-S-Bixel-St-LA-CA

LOS ANGELES — Realm Group, a joint venture between Newport Beach, Calif.-based Realm Real Estate and Irvine, Calif.-based The Bascom Group, has purchased a 1.5-acre site, located at 675 S. Bixel St. in downtown Los Angeles. Realm Group entitled the site for the development of a 36-story, 422-unit mixed-use high-rise multifamily building. The concrete, steel and glass tower will have a loft-style design and feature a rooftop sky lounge providing views of the city’s skyline. A 40,000-square-foot amenity deck on the fifth floor will feature a pool terrace and dog park. Construction is slated to commence in 2020. Charles Halladay, Jamie Kline, Nicholas Lench and Samuel Godfrey of HFF facilitated the land financing. Starwood Property Trust provided the debt financing for the land purchased.

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601-West-29th-Street-Manhattan

NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture between Ares Corp. and Douglaston Development will develop 601 West 29th Street, a 931-unit residential tower that will be located at the intersection of Manhattan’s Hudson Yards and West Chelsea neighborhoods. The property, which will span a full city block and rise 58 stories, will comprise 697 market-rate units and 234 affordable units, as well as 186 parking spaces and 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center, outdoor terraces, resident lounges and pet care services. A syndicate of banks led by HSBC and including Bank of China and Raymond James Bank provided construction financing. Greystone arranged the debt. Demolition work on the site is underway and completion is slated for late 2022.

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COLTON, CALIF. — CIT Group’s Real Estate Finance division has provided $48.2 million in senior secured financing for the acquisition and redevelopment of The District at Grand Terrace, a multifamily property located in Colton. The borrower, an investment fund managed by Tower 16 Capital Partners, previously announced its purchase of the property. Situated on 15 acres, the property features 352 garden-style apartment units. The financing includes funding for interior and exterior renovations of the property.

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OREGON — Carnegie Capital has arranged $15 million in construction financing for a seniors housing community in Southern Oregon. The property offers assisted living and memory care. The developer previously worked with Carnegie Capital for another community in Redmond. Further details on the asset were not disclosed. JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital sourced and structured the three-year loan with a 5.5 percent interest rate. The financing represents a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio.

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Grandbridge-Sonoma-CA

SONOMA, CALIF. — Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged a cash-out refinancing for a manufactured home community in Sonoma. Situated on 39 acres, the age-restricted manufactured housing community features 292 sites. Hunter Curtis and Taylor Curtis of Grandbridge’s Newport Beach, Calif., office originated the transaction for the undisclosed borrower. The non-recourse loan was structured with a fully amortizing term and funded through one of Grandbridge’s insurance company correspondents.

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NEW YORK CITY — RDC Development has completed its redevelopment of Ocean Bay Apartments, a project valued at $560 million. Ocean Bay, which houses 1,395 units and nearly 4,000 residents, was damaged in a storm and forced to undergo a two-year rehabilitation project that featured renovated kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. The rehab project also saw the replacement of roofs, as well as upgrades to elevators, utility systems and public hallways. RDC financed the redevelopment through HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, which stipulates that the refreshed units remain affordable to low-income households.

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CHICAGO — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the sale of The Portage Park Theater Apartments in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood for $6.3 million. The property, located at 4044-4060 N. Milwaukee Ave., consists of 34 apartment units. It also features four fully leased commercial spaces totaling 5,460 square feet. All of the apartments and storefronts were fully renovated in 2017. Doug Imber, Kate Varde and Clay Maxfield of Essex brokered the transaction. The buyer and seller information was not disclosed.

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Madison-Brookhaven-Atlanta

NEW YORK CITY — Global asset manager Investcorp, which is based in Bahrain and has its U.S. office in New York City, has acquired 11 multifamily properties totaling 2,615 units across the United States. The sales price was $370 million. The properties are located throughout six primary markets: Orlando, Tampa, Raleigh, Atlanta, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Madison Apartment Group, an affiliate of the seller, Philadelphia-based Equus Capital Partners, will continue to manage the communities after overseeing capital improvement programs at each property. The portfolio was approximately 95 percent leased at the time of sale with an average construction date of 1994 and an average unit size of 1,020 square feet. Equus acquired the properties between 2013 and 2015 and collectively spent about $20 million upgrading them. “The portfolio is positioned to deliver an attractive, stable and predictable cash flow for the new venture with Investcorp, while at the same time the markets continue to support further enhancement opportunities and ability to push rents higher,” says Christopher Locatell, senior vice president and director of dispositions for Equus. Investcorp executives noted that the deal marked the firm’s largest real estate acquisition in the United States in the last decade, and was appealing …

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MARIETTA, GA. — Fogelman Properties has sold The Hamptons at East Cobb, a 196-unit apartment complex in Marietta, for $33.6 million. The property is located at 1523 Roswell Road, 18 miles north of downtown Atlanta. The property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, as well as lighted tennis courts, a dog park, clothes care center, car care center, swimming pool, 24-hour fitness center and picnic and barbecue areas. Kevin Geiger, Shea Campbell, Malcomb McComb, Paul Berry and Ashish Cholia of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Kansas-based Cohen-Esrey acquired the community.

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HARRISONBURG, VA. — Berkadia has negotiated the $14.6 million sale of Foxhill Townhomes, a 101-unit multifamily community in Harrisonburg. Foxhill Townhomes is located at 1627 Devon Lane, less than two miles from James Madison University. Community amenities include a playground, business center, swimming pool, clubhouse, picnic and barbecue areas, tanning salon, conference room and a residents’ lounge. The community was built in 1998 and was sold at a rate of $144,950 per unit to DD Foxhill LLC. David Hudgins and Alan Meetze of Berkadia represented the seller, THH II LLC, in the transaction.

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