Multifamily

Coventry Green

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Bethesda, Md.-based Excelsa Properties has acquired Coventry Green Apartments, a 256-unit multifamily property located in Goose Creek. The undisclosed seller sold the property for $52.7 million. Coventry Green Apartments includes two- and three-story buildings. Built in 2001, the property offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Community amenities include a car care center, saltwater pool, washer and dryer connections, billiards room, café with Wi-Fi and stainless steel appliances. Excelsa Properties intends to invest more than $5 million to upgrade the property. Located at 104 Gainsborough Drive, the property is situated 13.9 miles from North Charleston, 15.6 miles from Charleston International Airport and 22.7 miles to Charleston. The property is also close to major employers including Joint Base Charleston, The Medical University of South Carolina, The Boeing Co. and Volvo Car USA.

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STAMFORD, CONN. — Walker & Dunlop has provided a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of TMG Anchor Point, a 323-unit waterfront multifamily property in Stamford. The property was built on 17 acres in 2000 and includes a 72-slip marina. TMG Anchor Point houses studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 522 to 1,767 square feet. Amenities include a fitness center, business center, media room, theater room, indoor basketball and racquetball courts and concierge services. The borrower was New York City-based investment and advisory firm TMG.

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Gulch Union

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Austin, Texas-based Endeavor Real Estate Group, in a joint venture with Boston-based Long Wharf Capital, has broken ground on Phase II of Gulch Union, a mixed-use development in Nashville’s Gulch district. Construction for the whole project is slated for completion by June 2024. The first phase of Gulch Union included a 330,000-square-foot office building called 1222 Demonbreun. The second phase will feature a 28-story residential tower with 306 multifamily units and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Community amenities in the second phase will include a rooftop pool, fitness and yoga studios, co-working area, lounge with a pool table, shuffleboard and bar, outdoor dining, pickleball court, bocce ball, corn hole, outdoor BBQ grills, firepits and a dog park. HKS Inc. is the designer for the three-phase project, and Turner Construction Co. is the general contractor. IBC Bank provided an undisclosed amount of construction financing for the project.

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ABINGTON, MASS. — MassHousing has funded a $34.8 million loan for the refinancing of Woodlands at Abington Station, a 192-unit affordable housing property located about 20 miles south of Boston in Abington. The property consists of eight buildings that house 78 one-bedroom apartments and 114 two-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, community room, tennis courts and a playground. The borrower, Beacon Communities LLC, will use a portion of the proceeds to fund capital improvements and preserve the property’s affordability status.

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Thrive

DAVENPORT, FLA. — Thompson Thrift Residential, an affiliate of Indianapolis-based Thompson Thrift, has sold Thrive, a 328-unit multifamily community in Davenport. Minneapolis-based Timberland Partners purchased the property for an undisclosed amount. Scott Ramey, Brad Downing and Paul Grant of Newmark represented Thompson Thrift in the transaction. Thrive offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans in 12 two-story and two four-story buildings. Unit features include a fireplace, stainless steel appliances, island kitchen, vinyl flooring and double vanities. Community amenities include an outdoor kitchen, swimming pool with cabanas, fitness center, yoga room, a dog park and pet spa. Completed in 2021, the property was 93 percent occupied at the time of sale. Located at 141 Thrive Road, Thrive is situated 11.8 miles from the Walt Disney World Resort and 37 miles from downtown Orlando. The property is also 27.5 miles from Orlando International Airport.

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AURORA, ILL. — Multifamily real estate investment firm Pensam has purchased Butterfield Oaks, a 336-unit multifamily community in Aurora. Built in 2001, the property consists of 21 two-story buildings. Penam plans to upgrade unit interiors and common areas and utilize rent optimization software to help increase revenue. Amenities include a clubhouse, fitness center, outdoor pool, outdoor lounge and dog park. The seller and sales price were not provided.

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  Multifamily appraisers are extremely busy as investor interest in the sector is at an all-time high. “In terms of appraisal professionals, there is a supply and demand issue,” explains Meghan Czechowski, managing director and valuation lead for Apprise by Walker & Dunlop. She notes that the industry has greater demand for valuation than it has qualified appraisers. “Apprise is ensuring that we can support our appraisal staff and our local market experts with a tech-enabled process so that they can do their jobs more efficiently and get the values (and market information in general) into our clients’ hands as quickly as possible,” she adds. Czechowski focuses on the ways that web-based multifamily valuations can be streamlined to create a faster and more complete picture of properties. Multifamily experts need information on properties/parcels that comes from “multiple industry-standard resources such as Yardi, REIS, RCA and public record aggregators.” Parcel-level information, unit mix metrics, sale leads, land records and site assessment information are all available through Apprise’s platform via a single sign on to a dashboard that reflects information that is constantly being updated. This means that when an expert uses this platform and picks up the phone to confirm about …

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Roadrunner-McDowell

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) has arranged the $193.5 million sale of Roadrunner on McDowell, a 356-unit multifamily property in Scottsdale, roughly 12 miles outside Phoenix.  The transaction marks the second-largest single-asset multifamily sale in Arizona history, according to IPA. The community was completed in 2022 by developer JLB Partners and is located within a 10-mile radius of major employers, including General Dynamics, HonorHealth, Vitalant, Yelp, Indeed, Banner Health and Opendoor. The buyer in the transaction was undisclosed. The property offers a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units with bed-to-bath parity. Shared amenities include a resort-style swimming pool and spa with private poolside cabanas; an outdoor entertainment area with seating, flatscreen televisions, a misting system and grilling stations; a zen garden; fitness center and yoga room; pet park; entertainment lounge; and co-working space with individual offices and a conference room. “The property was built to attract a top-tier resident profile of high-wage-earning professionals supported by 15,500-plus businesses within a 10-mile radius and Scottsdale’s outstanding citywide demographics,” says Steve Gebing, executive managing director with IPA. “Renter demand for South Scottsdale apartments has led to strong operational fundamentals and the imbalance of supply and demand is driving outsized forecasted rent growth.” …

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of Presidio at River East, a 140-unit apartment community located just north of downtown Fort Worth. The property offers a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units that are furnished with stainless steel appliances, washers and dryers and private balconies/patios or yards. Amenities include a pool, fitness center, outdoor kitchen and a dog park. An undisclosed, Texas-based developer sold the asset to California-based Starboard Realty Advisors for an undisclosed price. Drew Kile, Joey Tumminello, Michael Ware, Taylor Hill, Jeff Kindorf and Will Balthrope of IPA brokered the deal. Presidio at River East was fully occupied at the time of sale.

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MORRIS, MINN. — Colliers Mortgage has provided a $7 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of East Point Village Apartments in the western Minnesota city of Morris. The 61-unit, market-rate apartment complex was constructed in 2017. Amenities include a community room, fitness center and patio with gas grills. The 10-year loan features a 30-year amortization schedule. CJK Investments II LLC was the borrower.

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