PHENIX CITY AND MOBILE, ALA. — Capital One Multifamily Finance has provided a combined $37 million in agency loans for the acquisition of two multifamily communities in Alabama. In Phenix City, Capital One provided a $26.5 million Fannie Mae loan on behalf of EBSCO Income Properties for the acquisition of The Grand Reserve at Phenix City. The 12-year, fixed-rate loan features eight years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. Developed in 2010, The Grand Reserve at Phenix City features a pool, clubhouse and a fitness center. A 22-acre, grocery-anchored shopping center is scheduled to open adjacent to the property in 2019. In Mobile, Capital One provided a $10.5 million Freddie Mac loan for the acquisition of Southern Oaks Apartments. The 10-year, fixed-rate loan features five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule. StoneRiver Co. acquired the 224-unit asset from the PEM Real Estate Group. Built in 1975, Southern Oaks Apartments feature a clubhouse, fitness center, barbecue station and a swimming pool. StoneRiver plans to update the community with new appliances, flooring, countertops and painting. Chad Thomas Hagwood of Capital One originated both transactions.
CHESAPEAKE, VA. — Steadfast Apartment REIT III Inc. (STAR III) has acquired Cottage Trails at Culpepper Landing, a 183-unit multifamily community in Chesapeake, for $30.1 million. The name of the seller was not disclosed. Completed in 2015, the Hampton Roads property include eight, three-story buildings with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Community amenities include a community clubroom with catering kitchen, saltwater pool, fitness and yoga studio, dog park, playground, residential storage units, cyber café and grilling areas. STAR III plans to replace laminate countertops with quartz countertops in the kitchens and bathrooms, as well as renovate and update some of the common amenities.
LAWRENCEBURG, IND. — The Lawrenceburg City Council has approved a planned apartment development by Flaherty & Collins Properties. The $30 million project will feature 150 luxury apartment units near the west end of High Street in downtown Lawrenceburg, which is located about 30 miles west of Cincinnati. The project will include one- and two-bedroom units. Completion is slated for 2021, but a groundbreaking date has not been set. The city is expected to contribute $15 million to the project, according to local newspaper Dearborn County Register, but other financing is not yet in place.
VALPARAISO, IND. — Essex Realty Group Inc. has brokered the $2.6 million sale of Mayfield Apartments in the northwest Indianapolis suburb of Valparaiso. The 52-unit garden apartment complex features 13 buildings with four units each. The property is located at 156-364 Mayfield Ave. Brian Kochendorfer, Brian Karmowski and Troy Beebe of Essex brokered the transaction. Both the buyer and seller are real estate corporations with multiple properties under ownership.
SANTA FE, N.M. — Titan Development Real Estate Fund I has broken ground on Broadstone Rodeo, a multifamily project in Santa Fe. Developed along with Alliance Residential, Broadstone Rodeo is the sixth project for the partnership. Slated to open in 2019, the property will feature 188 apartments in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts, gated entrances, a lounge, entertainment room, patios, covered parking, resort-style pool and fitness center. This investment will be the fund’s first in the multifamily sector, and the first significant Class A multifamily property to be built in Santa Fe in 20 years, according to the developer.
Resilience in the Chicago apartment market amid a historic construction boom is creating opportunities for multifamily investors, particularly those who are willing to go the extra mile — sometimes literally — to capitalize on rent growth outside the downtown core. Across the city in outlying neighborhoods like Uptown, Rogers Park and Pilsen, value is being discovered in vintage buildings due to their high appreciation potential. In addition to circumventing rising material and labor costs, buyers of existing buildings are benefiting from their ability to collect rents now, while there’s still room for growth, rather than going through the time-consuming development process that has cast a shadow over some pipeline projects. Wave of deconversions Condo deconversions have been a popular choice among investors in recent years, with nearly 2,000 units deconverted at a combined market value of approximately $437 million since late 2016 in Chicago, according to data from CoStar Group and Interra Realty. When executed well, these transactions create a win-win for both parties involved. Condo owners, some of whom are still trying to recover value lost during the recession, can usually sell their units at a higher price than they would have achieved on their own, particularly in older …
HUDSON COUNTY, N.J. — Gebroe-Hammer Associates has arranged the sale of a 118-building, 2,137-unit multifamily portfolio in Hudson County. The Gateway Portfolio was separated into six packages, which sold for a total of $327.8 million. The properties are located throughout Jersey City, West New York, North Bergen, Guttenberg and Union City. Nicholas Nicolaou of Gebroe-Hammer represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. “The Gateway Portfolio in its entirety and as separate packages presented an extremely rare multifamily investment opportunity,” says Nicolaou. “It marked the highest concentration of for-sale stabilized assets in Hudson County ever to come to market at a time when asking rents for this apartment submarket are expected to advance upward of 6 percent over the next few years.” The largest of the six packages sold for $190.6 million and involved 67 buildings and 1,272 units in West New York, Jersey City, North Bergen and Guttenberg. The second largest package sold for $97 million and involved 35 buildings and 588 units in Jersey City. The buyer in both transactions was Optimum Holdings LLC. Rounding out the sale of the portfolio was another Jersey City deal which brought $190,000 per unit, two separate transactions in Union City …
YONKERS, N.Y. — Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $36 million sale of a 143-unit multifamily building located at 525-527 Riverdale Ave. in Yonkers. The seven-story, 161,000-square-foot, rent-regulated building was built in 1981 and sold at a 5.3 percent capitalization rate. The property also includes 124 parking spaces and 13 storage units. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood represented both the buyer, Emerald Equities, and the seller, 525-527 Riverdale Avenue Property LLC, in the transaction.
LEXINGTON, MASS. — HJ Sims has closed $52.1 million in financing for new construction and a health center repositioning at Brookhaven at Lexington in Lexington, Massachusetts. The 32-acre life plan community was opened in 1989 and was expanded and renovated in 2006. A recent master planning process identified a need for significant renovations and reconfigurations, as well as additional independent living apartments. Total financing included a $36 million short-term, taxable construction loan with a floating interest rate and a 12-year, $16.1 million taxable term loan maturing in 2030 with a fixed interest rate of 3.89 percent.
LAWRENCE, MASS. — MassHousing and Trinity Financial have broken ground on Van Brodie Mill, a 102-unit, mixed-income housing community in Lawrence. Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera, Executive Director of MassHousing Chrystal Kornegay and State Representative Frank Moran attended the groundbreaking, which took place on June 6. The adaptive reuse project, which is located at 590 Broadway,will preserve a historic former mill in the Arlington Mills historic district. Trinity Financial is a real estate development firm specializing in redeveloping urban sites in the Northeast. The cost of the project was not disclosed.