SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Reliant Group has completed the sale of The Lofts, an apartment property in Sacramento’s Natomas submarket. Jackson Square Properties acquired the asset for $52.3 million. Located at 3351 Duckhorn Drive, The Lofts offers 188 one- and two-bedroom units, with more than 40 percent including loft-style floor plans. Select units feature attached direct-access garages, nine-foot vaulted ceilings, dual-pane windows and luxury flooring. Community amenities include a swimming pool, hot tub, fitness center, an outdoor barbecue and entertainment center and a playground. Marc Ross of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. Ryan Greer and Trevor Breaux of CBRE Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance arranged financing on behalf of the buyer.
EUGENE AND SPRINGFIELD, ORE. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $40 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio comprising three seniors housing communities in Oregon. Totaling 344 units, the properties are located in Eugene and Springfield. Built between 1996 and 2006 and renovated in 2021, the communities include Evergreen Senior Living in Eugene and Timber Pointe and Woodside Senior Living in Springfield. Together, the properties offer 43 independent living, 245 assisted living and 56 memory care residences. Amenities at the communities include onsite dining, complimentary transportation, television lounges, libraries, beauty salons and barber shops, game rooms, movie and theater rooms and a billiards lounge. Alanna Ellis and Alex Sheaffer of JLL secured the three-year, floating-rate bridge financing on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services has arranged the purchase of a manufacturing and distribution industrial building in Tempe. A private investor acquired the asset, located at 1326 W. Fairmont Drive, for $7.3 million from an undisclosed seller. The 39,813-square-foot property features seven dock doors and heavy power to accommodate both manufacturing and distribution uses. Parker Houston, Chris Rogers and Trevor McKendry of DAUM handled the transaction.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Marquette Cos. and a fund managed by DRA Advisors have sold The Haven at Ann Arbor, a 520-unit apartment community in Ann Arbor. Abacus Capital Group, a New York-based real estate investment firm, purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Marquette purchased The Haven in 2017 when it was known as Village Green of Ann Arbor and undertook a $13 million revitalization project that included extensive exterior improvements and unit interior renovations. Marquette also renovated the amenities and improved site operations. At the time of sale, The Haven was 95 percent occupied. Located about a 15-minute drive from the University of Michigan, the property features studio, one- and two-bedroom units ranging from 650 to 1,075 square feet. Amenities include a clubhouse with resident lounge, three fitness centers, an outdoor pool with terrace, enclosed dog park, tennis courts, nature trails and an onsite car washing station.
BRECKSVILLE AND VERMILION, OHIO — Browns Gibbons Lang & Co. (BGL) Real Estate Advisors has arranged development financing for Valor Acres in Brecksville, a southern suburb of Cleveland, and The Bluffs at WaterWood Resort in Vermilion, about 42 miles west of Cleveland. The borrower was DiGeronimo Cos. Fifth Third Bank & First Commonwealth Bank provided the financing for Valor Acres, a mixed-use development incorporating 44,000 square feet of Class A office space, 221 luxury apartment units, 70,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space, an onsite safety station and 700-space parking garage. The project is being developed on the former site of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Brecksville hospital. Valor Acres is also home to the new Sherwin-Williams Research and Development Center and the DiGeronimo corporate headquarters. DiGeronimo closed on Phase I of the project, which included a multifamily building as well as for-rent townhomes, in December 2021. The developer closed on the for-sale townhomes, attached loft homes, memorial park and clubhouse in June 2023. BGL also served as the financial advisor for those transactions. In addition to senior construction debt from Fifth Third Bank, the project received transformational mixed-use development tax credits, Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority incentives and …
CHICAGO — Berkadia has negotiated the sale of Midpointe Apartments in Chicago for an undisclosed price. The 423-unit, garden-style multifamily property was built in 1973 and extensively upgraded over the last 10 years. Amenities include an outdoor pool, fitness center, dog park, fire pit and outdoor gas grilling areas. Ralph DePasquale of Berkadia represented the seller, an institutional investor. An affiliate of California-based Turner Impact Capital was the buyer.
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — Specialty candy retailer IT’SUGAR has relocated its store at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg to a 5,600-square-foot storefront, nearly double the size of its previous location. The Woodfield Mall location is the retailer’s fifth store in the Chicago market and offers more than 300 candy bins. Alongside its candy offerings, IT’SUGAR also features immersive candy displays from brands such as Sour Patch Kids, OREO, Nerds, Skittles, Reese’s and Starburst.
MINNEAPOLIS — Kiser Group has expanded into Minnesota by partnering with multifamily broker Robert Dulin to open a new multifamily brokerage office. The firm maintains brokers focused on Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, and this latest expansion broadens the company’s reach across the Midwest. Kiser Group’s transaction volume is in excess of $6 billion in multifamily investment sales since its inception in 2005. Dulin, formerly a director at Cushman & Wakefield, brings 15 years of multifamily brokerage experience to his role as executive director for Kiser’s Minneapolis-St. Paul operations.
ROCKDALE, TEXAS — Industrial development firm Xebec has announced plans for Sandow Lakes, the mixed-use redevelopment of a 33,000-acre industrial park formerly occupied by aluminum manufacturer Alcoa in Rockdale, roughly 25 miles outside of Austin. Built in the early 1950s, the property — which spans 50 square miles — was home to the largest aluminum foundry in the world for decades until it closed its doors in 2008, according to reports from D Magazine. Phase I of the redevelopment, dubbed the Advanced Manufacturing Logistix Campus at Sandow Lakes, will ultimately comprise 35 million square feet of industrial space, including build-to-suit space with flexible clear heights and bay spacing. Development of the first phase of the project began last fall with first move-ins slated to begin in the third quarter of 2026. Xebec will target distribution and manufacturing tenants, including cold storage users, in this initial phase. Further plans for the development include the addition of residential, retail, office and hospitality space connected by a series of lakes. A timeline for the development in full was not announced. The property is located in the Texas Triangle, a region of the state that includes its five largest cities — Austin, Houston, Dallas, Fort …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, the 2025-2026 academic year moved further into focus. What can the industry expect to see this year from a preleasing perspective? Are rents expected to keep growing? And by how much? All of these questions and more were discussed during a kick-off panel at the 2024 LeaseCon/TurnCon conference by InterFace Conference Group, which took place this past December in Charlotte. As of Dec. 3, student housing properties across the country were 36.6 percent preleased on average — a 1.3 percent decline from rates seen at the same time in 2023, according to moderator Charlie Matthews, founder and CEO of data provider College House. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements about specific events, visit www.interfaceconferencegroup.com/subscribe. Of markets across the United States, the Southeast led the way with the highest preleasing percentage at 43.5 percent. Asking rents have congruently grown by 4.9 percent across the country as of early December, according to Matthews, with average rents at $990. Leading the way in rent growth for the 2025-2026 academic year …