BEND, ORE., AND CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Invesco Real Estate Income Trust (INREIT) has acquired two self-storage portfolios in Bend and Clarksville for a combined purchase price of $42 million. The two-story, single-story, drive-up self-storage properties in Bend total 62,805 square feet across 674 units. The portfolio includes a 49,523-square-foot, 550-unit property that is 98.7 percent occupied, at 20230 Powers Road, as well as 345 Cleveland Ave., a 13,282-square-foot, 124-unit facility that is 100 percent occupied. Located in Clarksville, the three single-story, drive-up self-storage properties total 204,425 square feet across 1,347 units. The portfolio includes 1280 Parkway Place, a 67,350-square-foot, 505-unit facility that is 95.6 percent occupied; 4351 Guthrie Highway, an 80,275-square-foot, 471-unit facility that is 96.6 percent occupied; and 117 Old Excell Road, a 56,800-square-foot, 371-unit facility that is 97.8 occupied. The names of the sellers were not released.
PASADENA, CALIF. — R.D. Olson Construction, on behalf of owner BRIDGE Housing, has broken ground on Heritage Square South, a seniors housing property located at 710 N. Fair Oaks Ave. in Pasadena. Slated for completion by September 2023, the $28 million, 70,000-square-foot community will feature three three-story buildings offering 69 one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom unit. The three buildings are interconnected with walking bridges. Onsite amenities will include walking trails, flex rooms, a community room and 2,200 square feet of retail space. Additionally, the site has a bus stop on the front of Fair Oaks Avenue. KTGY is serving as architect for the project.
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has arranged the $36 million sale of a 55,150-square-foot office building located at 62 W. 45th St. in Midtown Manhattan. Built in 1911, the 12-story building features a dozen office suites and one retail space. Aaron Jungreis and Ben Khakshoor of Rosewood represented the seller, Renaissance Properties, in the transaction. LSI Advisors represented the buyer, IT consulting firm Stellar Services, which plans to occupy the entirety of the building.
NEW YORK CITY — Stav Equities, a New York City-based brokerage firm, has negotiated the $5.4 million sale of a multifamily building that comprises 12 market-rate units and one vacant retail space in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The buyer, Neue Urban, plans to implement a value-add program. The seller was not disclosed. Adam Traub of Curb Capital and Jacob Stavsky of Stav Equities brokered the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — British apparel designer Paul Smith has signed a 12,617-square-foot lease for its new office and showroom at 257 Park Avenue South in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. The 20-story building was constructed in 1912 and spans 226,000 square feet. Will Grover and Ben Shapiro of Newmark represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Rob Fisher represented the landlord, The Feil Organization, on an internal basis.
SEATTLE — Redfin, the residential real estate brokerage giant, has reported that the national median asking rent in June is $2,016 per month, a 14.1 percent increase year-over-year. The Seattle-based company analyzed data from 20,000 separate multifamily and single-family properties from its RentPath platform across the top 50 U.S. metro areas. The June figure is a slight increase from May at 0.7 percent, which represents the smallest month-over-month gain since the start of the year. The median asking rate is also the smallest annual increase since October 2021. Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist, says while still elevated, the current slowdown in rent growth could be anticipatory on the part of landlords in reaction to overall inflation. (The Consumer Price Index saw its biggest annual gain since 1981 in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). “Rent growth is likely slowing because landlords are seeing demand start to ease as renters get pinched by inflation,” says Fairweather. “With the cost of gas, food and other products soaring, renters have less money to spend on housing.” “This slowdown in rent increases is likely to continue, however rents are still climbing at unprecedented rates in strong job markets like New York …
By Adam Schmitt, First Vice President, CBRE | Multifamily Investment Properties The multifamily construction pipeline in Las Vegas has ramped up in recent years and continues to be robust. Apartment developers have long capitalized on the growth of the Las Vegas market, and with the vast potential remaining in the city, multifamily builders are continuing to place their bets in Vegas. Our team at CBRE tracked a total of 4,317 multifamily units constructed in 2021, and are projecting more than 8,000 in 2022, with at least 16,000 in 2023 and beyond. For reference, over the past 10 years, the Las Vegas multifamily market has delivered about 3,700 annual units on average. The projects being built in Las Vegas are predominately luxury, Class A developments that tend to cater to the lifestyle renter or renter-by-choice demographic. The locations of these developments are mostly concentrated in the Southwest and Henderson submarkets, comprising 62 percent of the construction pipeline. Developers have historically flocked to these submarkets because of the areas’ respective demographics, perpetual growth and strong multifamily fundamentals. More recently, multifamily developers have found opportunities in the Northwest and North Las Vegas submarkets as those regions have seen years of high rent growth, and the rent …
BOSTON AND NEW YORK CITY — American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT), a multitenant communications REIT, has agreed to sell a 29 percent stake in its data center platform to Stonepeak, an alternative asset management firm based in New York City. The deal, which comprises common and preferred equity from Stonepeak’s affiliated investment vehicles and debt commitments, is valued at $2.5 billion. The AMT data center portfolio consists of 27 data centers in 10 U.S. markets. AMT purchased Denver-based CoreSite Realty Corp. in a $10.1 billion deal that was announced last November. AMT will retain managerial and operational control, as well as day-to-day oversight of its U.S. data center business, and Stonepeak will obtain certain governance rights. The transaction is expected to close in third-quarter 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. “We are pleased to partner with Stonepeak in our U.S. data center business,” says Tom Bartlett, president and CEO of American Tower. “While this transaction supports the equity financing component for our previously completed CoreSite acquisition, it also creates a platform through which growth opportunities can be strategically evaluated and financed.” Andrew Thomas, managing director and co-head of communications at Stonepeak, says that AMT’s data center platform aligns with Stonepeak’s …
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — First National Realty Partners has purchased Brook Highland Plaza, a 549,500-square-foot shopping center located in Birmingham. The seller and sales price were not disclosed, but the Birmingham Business Journal reports the property traded for $77 million. The transaction marks the Red Bank, N.J.-based investor’s second grocery-anchored center acquisition in Alabama. Brad Buchanan and Jim Hamilton of JLL’s Atlanta office represented the seller in the transaction. A 127,000-square-foot Lowe’s Home Improvement store and a 23,400-square-foot Sprouts Farmers Market anchor Brook Highland Plaza. Other tenants include Burlington, Best Buy, HomeGoods, Petco, Dollar Tree, Ulta Beauty, Five Below and Ashley Furniture. The property has about 11,650 square feet of space available, according to First National Realty Partners.
ATLANTA — Locally based development firm Portman Holdings has formed a joint venture with Chicago-based alternative real estate asset management firm Harrison Street to recapitalize Coda, a 664,000-square-foot mixed-use tower located at 756 W. Peachtree St. in Atlanta’s Technology Square. As part of the partnership, Harrison Street is purchasing a stake in the tower, which Portman delivered in 2019 adjacent to the Georgia Tech campus, from the Atlanta-based company for an undisclosed amount. Comprising educational, research, office and retail space, Coda serves more than 700 Georgia Tech faculty, staff and researchers, as well as tech firms including Cisco, AutoDesk and Keysight Technologies. The asset was 98 percent leased at the time of the recapitalization and features an onsite data center that is owned and operated by DataBank, as well as the Collective Food Hall.