NEW YORK CITY – Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has provided a $35 million mezzanine loan to co-developers Sumaida + Khurana and LENY for a new condominium tower located at 611 W. 56th St. in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. The funding is part of a $155 million construction financing package for the project provided by MRC and an investment fund managed by Apollo Global Management. The 35-story, 163,329-square-foot development will feature 83 residences, ranging from one-bedroom units to expansion penthouses; outdoor space, including a roof garden and sun deck; private terraces for residents; a fitness center; a children’s playroom and an entertaining space for hosting private events. Álvaro Siza, a renowned Portuguese architect, is designing the building. This is Siza’s first foray into the U.S. market. Adi Chugh of Maverick Capital Partners arranged the financing in the transaction. Condo sales are slated to begin in spring 2019, with Leonard Steinberg, Debra LaChance and Justin D’Adamo of Compass leading the marketing efforts.
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NEW YORK CITY – Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of three mixed-use buildings located at 119-123 Kent Ave. in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. The Shariati family acquired the contiguous properties for $22.3 million, or $1,441 per square foot. The sellers were Cheskie Weisz of CW Realty, Joyland Group and Meral Property Group. The buildings offer a total of 17 apartments, three ground-floor retail units and one office space. Nat Rockett and Steven Dweck of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer in the 1031 exchange transaction.
HOBOKEN, N.J. – Redwood Realty Advisors has negotiated the sale of a two-building multifamily property located at 844 Park Ave. in Hoboken. A private investor sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for $3.3 million. The property features a total of 10 residential apartments with a unit mix of one-bedroom/one-bath, two-bedroom/one-bath and two-bedroom/two-bath units. Additionally, the property features on-site parking. Steve Matovski of Redwood Realty Advisors represented the seller and buyer in the deal.
Walker & Dunlop Provides $17M Freddie Mac Refinancing for Seniors Housing Community Near Phoenix
by Amy Works
GILBERT, ARIZ. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has provided $17 million in Freddie Mac financing for American Orchards, an assisted living and memory care community in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert. Completed in June 2016, American Orchards consists of two distinct buildings: The Sapwood Building with 38 assisted living suites and The Heartwood Building with 35 memory care suites. The 10-year, non-recourse, fixed-rate financing features two years of interest-only payments. The transaction will allow the borrower — American Care Concepts — to pay off existing bank debt while cashing out equity for future projects. Walker & Dunlop’s team included Kevin Giusti, Jeff Ringwald and Bill Jackson.
Hillcrest Development, Pathfinder Partners Complete $1.6M Renovation at Independent Living Property Near Denver
by Amy Works
AURORA, CO. — Hillcrest Development and Pathfinder Partners have completed a $1.6 million renovation and rebranding program at V-Esprit, a 100-unit seniors housing independent living community in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Previously known as the Shalom Park Senior Living Campus, the two companies acquired the property in 2017. Situated on 14 acres, the community features 40 patio homes and 60 apartments ranging from 725 to 1,373 square feet. Residents are restricted to those aged 55 and older. Renovations to the community include converting four one-bedroom apartment units into a clubhouse and card room, as well as refurbishing and modernizing the theater room, library, communal dining area and leasing office. Apartment interiors were also upgraded along with hallways and corridors. Hillcrest Development Group LLC is a Denver-based development company. Pathfinder Partners LLC is a San Diego-based firm specializing in opportunistic and value-add real estate investments.
TOLEDO, OHIO — Toledo-based healthcare REIT Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) has entered into an 80/20 joint venture with ProMedica Health System to acquire Quality Care Properties (NYSE: QCP) for nearly $2 billion in cash. The joint venture will acquire the real estate of QCP’s principal tenant, HCR ManorCare, the nation’s second-largest nursing home chain. Toledo-based HCR ManorCare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March after struggling to pay rent to QCP, which owns nearly all of the facilities in which HCR ManorCare operates. QCP won a court approval earlier this month to acquire HCR ManorCare out of bankruptcy. QCP itself is a spin-off of healthcare REIT HCP (NYSE: HCP), which created the company in 2016 specifically to remove HCR ManorCare’s 320 properties from its portfolio. As part of the transaction, ProMedica has agreed to buy the operations of HCR ManorCare, making the nonprofit healthcare organization a national U.S. healthcare provider. “This acquisition will enable ProMedica to expand their service offering beyond acute care hospitals to include home health, post-acute care and residential memory care,” says Tom DeRosa, CEO of Welltower. The HCR ManorCare chain has more than 50,000 employees providing services in 450 assisted living facilities, skilled nursing and rehabilitation …
With asking rental rates increasing, an average vacancy rate of 5.7 percent and a low average asking rent per unit of just $855 per month, Omaha’s apartment market is increasingly attractive to national and regional investors. According to apartment research firm Reis, Omaha’s average asking rental rate has increased in every quarter for the past seven years, and is expected to increase by another 2.2 percent in 2018. While not stellar growth, it continues a steady march upward that has benefited owners in Omaha for quite some time. Driving the growth in rents is the balanced nature of the Omaha market coupled with Omaha’s strong underlying economy. From a population growth perspective, census data shows that Omaha’s metropolitan statistical area (MSA) has grown 1.2 percent per year since 2010, and is now estimated at 939,000 people. That steady trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future, as Omaha’s population is projected to grow another 1.1 percent per year through 2022. In terms of absorption, Omaha has averaged an annual addition of 4,000 households over the past 10 years, according to Reis. Renters account for 34.3 percent of Omaha MSA’s housing units, translating to roughly 1,372 new renter households each …
DALLAS — Hunt Mortgage Group has closed a $6.4 million loan for the refinancing of Park Beverly, a 144-unit multifamily property in Dallas. Situated on 2.7 acres on the city’s north side, the property was built in 1963 and features studio, one- and two-bedroom units. The seven-year loan, which features one year of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule, was arranged on behalf of a Texas-based borrower, Cresta 5827 Blackwell LLC.
NEW YORK CITY – Progress Capital has negotiated a $3.5 million permanent mortgage for a multifamily property located at 662 Madison St. in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The borrower, New York-based Oved Group, used the loan proceeds to acquire a 10,160-square-foot multifamily property for $4.3 million. The eight-unit property was fully occupied at the time of purchase. Brad Domenico of Progress Capital arranged the financing. The loan term is for 20 years, the first two of which will be interest-only payments followed by a fixed rate of 3.85 percent for seven years. The rate will reset afterward for the remainder of the loan.
GREENSBORO, N.C. —Vesper Holdings has acquired University Village, a 600-bed student housing community in Greensboro, for $40 million. The name of the seller was not disclosed. The community is located across the street from the main entrance of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Constructed in 2006, the community includes a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom floor plans with bed-to-bath parity. Community amenities include a clubhouse, swimming pool, 24-hour fitness center, business center, computer lab and tanning bed. Vesper plans to invest $1 million to renovate unit interiors and amenities, as well as enhance the property’s exteriors.