SANDY AND LAYTON, UTAH, AND FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital (KBREC) has secured a $140.3 million in Fannie Mae Credit Facility for Centerville, Utah-based Keller Investment Properties. The borrower will use the facility, which is expandable to additional properties, to refinance three multifamily assets in Utah and Arizona. The properties are Park at City Center in Sandy, Quail Cove Apartments in Layton and Woodcrest Apartments in Flagstaff. Brain Caudel of KBREC’s Commercial Mortgage Group and Devin Jolley of KBREC’s Income Property Group structured the financing.
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CHICAGO — Uber Capital Group has arranged a $12.5 million loan for the acquisition of Ford City Mall in Chicago. The 1.2 million-square-foot mall is located at 7601 S. Cicero St. JC Penney anchors the property, which is home to more than 135 retailers and restaurants, including a 14-screen AMC Theatres. Joel J. Gorjian of Uber arranged the three-year, fixed-rate loan at 75 percent loan-to-value with a 20-year amortization schedule. A New York-based private real estate investment group was the borrower.
ROBBINSDALE, MINN. — Upland Real Estate Group Inc. has negotiated the $8.9 million sale of a single-tenant retail property occupied by Walgreens in Robbinsdale, about seven miles northwest of Minneapolis. Walgreens has a triple net lease with more than 16 years remaining. The property is situated at the corner of West Broadway and 41st avenues. Buyer and seller information was not disclosed.
CHICAGO — Interra Realty has brokered the sale of a 37-unit apartment property in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood for $4.3 million. Located at 6415-6425 N. Richmond St., the asset was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. Built in 1937, the property features 24 one-bedroom units and 13 two-bedroom units. Joe Smazal of Interra represented both the private seller and private buyer. At $115,405 per unit, the sale was the largest multifamily sale in the neighborhood this year, according to CoStar Group.
SEATTLE — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged the sale of First and Stewart, a creative office property located at 101 Steward St. in Seattle’s central business district. L&B Realty Advisors sold the asset to DWS, formerly known as RREEF, for $59.2 million, according to public records reported by The Registry. Situated at the convergence of the Pike Place Market, Belltown, Retail Core and central district, the building features 94,333 square feet of Class A creative office space. Nick Kucha, Michael Moll, James Childress, Jesse Ottele and Tim O’Keffe of NKF represented the seller, while the buyer was self-represented in the deal.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Dermody Properties has purchased a flex property, located at 44370 Christy St. in Fremont. The name of the seller and acquisition price were not released. The 88,246-square-foot asset features 26,473 square feet of office space, 20-foot clear heights, four dock-high doors, two drive-in doors, 277 auto parking spaces and an ESFR fire protection system. Will Connors, Daniel Renz, Erik Doyle, Greg Matter, Eddie Shuai and Rich Branning of JLL represented the seller in the transaction.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust Inc. (SSSHT), a public, non-traded REIT sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management, has completed a freestanding memory care expansion in Portland. The project extends the offerings at Courtyard at Mt. Tabor, which already offered independent living and assisted living. The expansion adds a 16,000-square-foot building and 23 units. The 7.1-acre community now offers 309 total units. Known as The Pavilion, the memory care project was 38 percent pre-leased before opening. “The ideal seniors housing model is a continuum-of-care campus serving private-pay, middle-income seniors that allows residents to age in-place,” says John Strockis, president and chief investment officer of SSSHT. “We maintain a resident-focused perspective and understand the growing need to provide quality memory care in our communities. Courtyard at Mt. Tabor Pavilion delivers additional units to help offset that demand.” R&H Construction built the project, which Ankrom Moisan Architects designed. Construction took approximately 12 months. The operator is Integral Senior Living.
Valore Ventures Sells Triple-Net Leased Outback Steakhouse Property in Southern California
by Amy Works
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Valore Ventures has completed the sale of a restaurant property located at 12001 Harbor Blvd. in Garden Grove. A private investor acquired the asset for $6.6 million. Outback Steakhouse occupies the 6,180-square-foot building, which was built in 2001, on a triple-net leased basis. The property is situated a mile from Disneyland and Disney California Adventure and minutes from the Anaheim Convention Center. Valore Ventures originally purchased the property as part of a four-building portfolio that included a Red Robin Gourmet Burger and Brews, Joe’s Crab Shack and Oggi’s Pizza & Brewery. This sale is the last of the four fee simple interests that Valore acquired in January for $13.1 million. Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther of SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group brokered the transaction.
If you try to find an apartment in Reno you’ll quickly realize this isn’t necessarily an easy task. Reno has experienced more than 8 percent rent growth year over year for the past four years. Average rents in the third quarter were $1,174 per month with vacancy at 4.5 percent, according to CoStar. These escalating numbers are due to employment. The Reno-Sparks MSA has grown by 59,700 jobs in the past 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Tesla Gigafactory was just the beginning. Google, Apple and Switch are among others that have moved in, bringing thousands of jobs with them. Businesses still like the friendly tax environment, clean air and high quality of life. But while we were adding all those jobs, the number of apartment units added during that time was just 3,802, CoStar notes. Look around and you will see apartment construction everywhere in Reno. Most is on the outskirts of town where larger land parcels are still available. This includes Sparks, Lemmon Valley, Spanish Springs and South Reno. A few more central infill sites are making headlines. Park Lane by Reno Land Inc. is in the process of adding 1,700 units in the …
The unprecedented job and population growth that Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) has experienced during this cycle has brought a plethora of new buyers to the Class B multifamily space, and the simple economics of high demand and low supply are re-shaping the landscape of the investment market. According to CoStar Group, the average price per unit in the Class B space has increased by 4.3 percent year-to-date, and deal volume on sales of Class B assets is down from 2017. These trends attest to the strong impact price escalation has had on the market. A more crowded buyer pool is also breeding competition and pushing prices upward. The metroplex’s growth cycle dates back to the beginning of the expansion. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that between 2010 and 2018, the metroplex added about 1.1 million people, or 122,000 per year. Earlier this year, Cushman & Wakefield released a report stating that DFW added approximately 754,000 jobs between 2009 and 2018, or 75,000 per year. This convergence has significantly boosted apartment demand in the metroplex, ushering in waves of competition for older multifamily assets, many of which are positioned for value-add investment and subsequent rent bumps. Price escalation caused by …