SAN DIEGO – Santa Margarita Properties I LLC has purchased a six-unit apartment complex in the San Diego submarket of Pacific Beach for $2.3 million. The community is located at 2009-2013 Oliver Ave. The space was renovated in 2015. The sale was completed as part of a 1031 exchange. Terry Moore of ACI Apartments represented the buyer. Chris Robinson, Ken Herskind and Dylan Wright of ACRE Commercial represented the seller, 2009 Oliver Avenue LLC, in this transaction.
LANCASTER, TEXAS — CBRE Group, through its FHA lending platform, has refinanced Creekwood Place, a market rate apartment community located in Lancaster. The fully amortizing $13.7 million loan was funded through HUD’s Section 223(f), providing a 35-year, fixed-rate loan structure. The loan will finance the rehabilitation of the complex, a 200-unit Class B community with 176 two-bedroom units and 24 three-bedroom units. Constructed in 1997, the project is located 0.3 miles east of I-35E and 16 miles south of downtown Dallas. Chad Ricks and Jeff Shaw of CBRE’s Dallas office originated financing for Creekwood Place.
HOUSTON — Elandis, the real estate ownership, development and property management arm of the Libra Group, has acquired 1,000 units in four separate multifamily communities in Houston. The combined purchases are valued at $50 million and expand the company’s portfolio of owned and managed residential units to 2,500. The four apartment communities, each consisting of one-, two- and three-bedroom units, include Kirkwood Landing on South Kirkwood Road; The Forest on Imperial Valley Drive; Valencia at Spring Branch on Long Point Road, and Pine Creek on Maxey Road. The properties will be managed by Elandis’s wholly owned subsidiary, Elandis Property Management.
WAUKEGAN, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $1.2 million sale of a 38-unit apartment property in Waukegan, approximately 40 miles north of Chicago. A fund manager sold Waukegan Apartments and Townhomes, located at 766 Linden Ave., to an undisclosed buyer. The property consists of 20 three-bedroom/one-bathroom townhomes, 16 one-bedroom/one-bathroom apartments and four two-bedroom/one-bathroom apartments. Kyle Stengle and Joseph Bergman of Marcus & Millichap listed the property on behalf of the seller.
BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has brokered the sale of The Hawthorne at Gillette Ridge, a multifamily property located at 2 Francis Way in Bloomfield. White Eagle Property Group acquired the 246-unit asset from Bouwfonds Hawthorne LP for $52 million, or $211,000 per unit. The property was constructed on a 612-acre mixed-use campus in 2004 by a partnership between Cigna and The Bozutto Group. Victor Nolletti and Steve Witten of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a five-story residential building located at 240 E. 52nd St. in Manhattan. Coutinho Properties sold the asset for $10.5 million, or $1,122 per square foot. The 9,361-square-foot building features 15 one-bedroom units and a fully furnished basement. Hall Oster and Clint Olsen of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Stacy Gim of PD Properties represented the undisclosed buyer.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Tremont Realty Capital has arranged a $6.6 million loan for the refinance of Oakland Ridge MHC, a 100-space manufactured housing community located on the north side of Long Island in Riverhead. The non-recourse loan was structured with a 10-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule with two years of interest-only payments. John Chase of Tremont Realty Capital arranged the loan for the undisclosed borrower.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — CBRE has arranged a $19.7 million loan for the acquisition of MorningStar at Arrowhead, an 85-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Phoenix submarket of Glendale. The borrower is a joint venture between MorningStar Senior Living, Oakwood Real Estate Partners and Confluent. MorningStar developed the property, which opened in September 2015. The company will continue to operate the community after the transaction. The non-recourse, floating-rate loan features a three-year term, 36 months of interest-only payments and an all-in rate below 3 percent. A national bank provided the capital. Aron Will, vice president of CBRE National Senior Housing, arranged the financing. Oakwood is a commercial real estate private equity firm located in Denver. Confluent is a full-service real estate investment and development company, also based in Denver.
PHOENIX — Curtis Capital Group has purchased the 124-unit Barrington Regent apartment complex in Phoenix for $11 million. The community is located at 825 W. Osborn Road. It is less than a mile from the Metro Light Rail and about one mile from the Downtown Phoenix Corridor. Top employers in the area include both city and state governments, as well as TGEN Bioscience Research. Barrington Regent was built in 1980. The seller was Su Casa properties. Mark Forrester, Ric Holway, Dan Cheyne and Tom Wolff of Berkadia executed the transaction.
DEER VALLEY, UTAH — ValueRock Realty Partners has obtained all the entitlements and approvals for the 87-acre Deer Cove Master Plan, one of the largest planned mixed-use communities in the Deer Valley/Park City region. The development will be situated adjacent to U.S. 40, within walking distance of the Jordanelle Express Gondola at Deer Crest and Jordanelle recreational lake. ValueRock and its affiliates acquired the infill parcel in 2001. Since that time, the team has invested about $20 million in planning, engineering, infrastructure and water reservation fees to secure full entitlement approvals. The project will eventually include more than 1,000 residential units, a hotel, retail and open space in a master-planned community. There are a number of on-mountain adjacent developments planned for the area, including a 800- to 1,000-acre ski terrain expansion of Deer Valley Resort; development of a new on-mountain, four-star hotel at Pioche; proposed on-mountain luxury hotel and residential development at Blue Ledge by Extell Development; and progression of Mayflower, another development that encompasses about 4,000 acres of land.
