LAS VEGAS — Northcap Commercial has arranged the sale of Stax Studios, a studio apartment community in downtown Las Vegas. Clark Studio Investar LLLP sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $8.6 million, or $196,591 per unit. Built in 1963 and fully renovated in 2019, the property offers 44 studio units. Stax Studios is located at 501 S. 10th St. Devin Lee, Robin Willett and Jerad Roberts of Northcap Commercial represented the seller in the deal.
MILWAUKEE — Associated Bank has structured a $6 million construction loan and $9.6 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity for the renovation of Townhomes at Carver in Milwaukee. The affordable housing community consists of 35 buildings. The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee originally developed the 122-unit property in 2001. Of the 122 units, 102 are restricted to households earning 30 to 60 percent of the area median income and 20 units are market rate. Additionally, 51 units benefit from a project-based Section 8 contract. Improvements will include new flooring; updates of bathroom and kitchen cabinets, countertops and fixtures; replacement of furnaces, air conditioners and hot water heaters; and window, siding and roofing updates. Completion is slated for 2023. Stefanie Bachrach and Teresa Rubio of Associated Community Development LLC, the bank’s community development corporation, managed the current loan and equity closings.
WATERLOO, IOWA — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has arranged a $13.5 million loan for the refinancing of Art Bloc in Waterloo, a city in northeast Iowa. The newly built, six-story building features 67 apartment units and 7,400 square feet of commercial space that is fully leased to an architecture firm. Robert Bhat of MMCC arranged the senior debt financing. The Fannie Mae loan features a 75 percent loan-to-value ratio, a fixed interest rate of 4.75 percent for 10 years, five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule.
WHITING, IND. — Kiser Group has brokered the $4 million sale of City Place Apartments in Whiting, a city located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan about 16 miles from the Chicago Loop. Constructed in 2015, the four-story building features 24 units. Ron Plonis, Jeff Leibovich and Kyle Sissell of Kiser brokered the transaction. The out-of-state buyer assumed the debt on the property and expects to increase rents as units turn over.
HIALEAH, FLA. — A partnership led by locally based firm MG Developer and New York City-based Baron Property Group has received a $148 million construction loan for Metro Parc, a 559-unit multifamily project in the city of Hialeah, located within Miami-Dade County. Metro Parc will be situated on a 2.5-acre site and will consist of two buildings rising 10 stories, making it the tallest residential development in Hialeah, according to the development team. Units will come in two-bedroom formats that will range in size from 500 to 800 square feet. Communal amenities will include a pool, fitness center and outdoor kitchen. In addition, Metro Parc will house ground-floor retail space that is preleased to a Latin-inspired food marketplace, as well as onsite parking. Metro Parc will also offer proximity to a Metrorail transit station, the Hialeah Arts District and Amelia Earhart Park. The project team includes investment firms Township Capital as an equity partners. Construction is set to begin in December and to wrap up in the second quarter of 2024. Dmitry Levkov and Jeffrey Donelly of Colliers arranged the 30-month loan on behalf of the development team. Post Road Group provided the financing. The project will be the first …
BROOMFIELD, COLO. — Highridge Costa has started construction on Northwest Apartments, an affordable multifamily property in Broomfield. The 50-unit community is designated for families earning 30 to 60 percent of area median income. Designed by Denver-based Santulan Architecture, the four-story building will feature 16 one-bedroom/one-bath units; 26, including an on-site manager’s unit, two-bedroom/two-bath units; and eight three-bedroom/two-bath units. Residences will include patios and balconies, quartz countertops, a range and oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, air conditioning, garbage disposal, window coverings and high-speed internet connections. Community amenities will include a clubroom, fitness center, play area, small dog park, laundry rooms and secure indoor storage for bicycles. Completion is slated for late fall 2023.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — After a long period of growth, U.S. multifamily asking rents seem to have finally hit a wall, according to Santa Barbara-based Yardi Matrix’s monthly National Multifamily Report. U.S. multifamily asking rents declined $1 to $1,718 in August — the first month-over-month period since June 2020 without significant growth. “The economy is starting to feel the effects of higher interest rates, while migration is slowing, and the increasing lack of affordability is affecting high-growth metros,” states the report. Asking rents increased in only 10 of Yardi Matrix’s top 30 markets in August, with Philadelphia, San Francisco and Nashville all showing a 0.5 percent growth rate. Metros with the largest decreases in asking rents included Raleigh (-1.3 percent), Seattle (-1.1 percent) and the Inland Empire and Las Vegas (both -0.8 percent). Yardi Matrix attributes this deceleration to multiple factors, including seasonality, cooling in markets that saw rents increase at extraordinarily high rates over the past two years and, most importantly, slowing migration and population figures. With a decreasing population growth rate and legal immigration dropping to its lowest level in decades, the report emphasizes that rent growth in the future is likely to be increasingly defined by migration …
ATLANTA — Atlanta BeltLine Inc. (ABI) has selected development firm Culdesac for the 20-acre Murphy Crossing project located at 1050 Murphy Ave. in southwest Atlanta’s Oakland City neighborhood. Culdesac, which recently delivered a “car-free” mixed-use development in Tempe, Ariz., will be working with Urban Oasis Development, Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, LDG Consulting and T. Dallas Smith and Co. on the Murphy Crossing project, which will be branded Murphy Crossing by Culdesac. Plans for the development are subject to change pending community feedback, but preliminarily the project will comprise new and existing buildings that will house market-rate and affordable housing apartments, a grocery store, retail and dining options, light industrial space, coworking spaces, arts and culture programming and a farmer’s market, honoring the site’s history as the location for the Georgia Farmers Market in the 1940s and 1950s. Murphy Crossing by Culdesac will give residents proximity to the Oakland City and West End MARTA stations. Additionally, 25 percent of the residential units will be designated permanently affordable with an additional 5 percent of units deemed affordable for at least the next 30 years. The target rent restriction for the affordable units is between 60 and 80 percent of the area median …
ORLANDO, FLA. — Avanath Capital Management has purchased City View, a mixed-use development located at 595 Church St. in Orlando, for $62.5 million. The buyer purchased the asset using a combination of its commingled fund equity and debt financing from JPMorgan Chase and Fannie Mae. Marcus & Millichap’s Affordable Housing Advisors division brokered the sale. Nearly half of City View’s 266 apartments are designated affordable, with the property’s rent restrictions continuing until 2050. Avanath Capital has taken steps to preserve the current designations of 28 units at 50 percent of area median income (AMI), 79 units at 60 percent of AMI and 24 units at 120 percent of AMI. The property was 96.9 percent occupied at the time of sale. In addition to the apartments and resident amenities, City View houses 13 commercial tenants occupying nearly 25,000 square feet, including boutique retail, restaurant, deli and financial education/literacy users, as well as the Orlando Police Department. Avanath Capital plans to complete interior renovations of the market-rate units to bring finishes and rents in-line with those of market competitors. Additionally, the firm will upgrade City View’s common areas and retails spaces and replace the roof, HVAC and boiler.
HOOVER, ALA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $44 million sale of The Hills at Hoover, a 320-unit apartment community in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham. Josh Jacobs and Royce Emerson of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a family office based in New Jersey, and procured the buyer, a Florida-based multifamily owner/operator. Built in the early 1970s, The Hills at Hoover has recently undergone a significant remodel across several interior units, according to Jacobs. According to Apartments.com, the property features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a business center, clubhouse, fitness center, pool, playground, tennis court and a grilling/picnic areas.
