OCEANSIDE, CALIF. – The 240-unit Sunterra Apartment Homes in Oceanside has sold to Sunterra Apartments LLC (Benedict Canyon Equities) for $38.2 million. The community is located at 3851 Sherbourne Drive near State Route 78 in the San Diego submarket. It was built in 1974. The seller, Legacy Sunterra Apartments Partners LP, was represented by Stewart I. Weston, Christopher Zorbas and David Sperling of Institutional Property Advisors, and Michael Walseth of Marcus & Millichap.
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DENVER – The 53-unit Governor’s Green apartment building in Denver has sold to a local private investment group for $7.6 million. The community is located at East 6th Ave. in the Governor’s Park area. The property was fully leased at the time of closing. The seller, a private, out-of-state investor, was represented by Justin Hunt, Andy Hellman and Robert Bratley of ARA.
CHANDLER, ARIZ. – A 93,500-square-foot industrial building at the Chandler Corporate Center has sold to Desert Palm Management Group for $6.3 million. The property is located at 450 N. McClintock Drive near the Chandler Municipal Airport, I-10, Loop 101 and Loop 202. Notable tenants at the space include Creative Leather and SW Bakery (Dunkin’ Donuts), among others. Desert Palm was represented by Greg Hopley of Colliers International. The seller was Pathfinder TRF. M. LLC.
PHOENIX — Creative Touch Interiors has leased 37,000 square feet in Phoenix. The space is located at 1002 E. University Drive. The interior finish solutions provider is relocating from a nearby building. The space will be utilized as a showroom and design center. The new lease has brought the property to full occupancy. Creative Touch Interiors is doing business as HD Supply. The company was represented by CBRE’s Pat Feeney in this three-year lease transaction. The landlord, EastGroup, was represented by Jackie Orcutt, John Grady and Jim Wilson of Cushman & Wakefield.
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Exeter Property Group has purchased a 4.4 million-square-foot portfolio of industrial properties in Memphis, Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, for $132 million. Exeter purchased the eight-property portfolio from LNR Property LLC, the special servicer appointed to the portfolio upon its transfer from London-based Strategic Realty Advisors Ltd. in June 2013. Four of the properties, totaling more than 2.1 million square feet, are located in Memphis. Andrew Phillips of Colliers International’s Memphis office, along with Steve Timmel of the firm’s Cincinnati office, represented LNR in the transaction.
MARIETTA, GA. — The Connor Group has purchased Parkside at Town Center, a 234-unit luxury apartment community in Marietta, a northern suburb of Atlanta, for $27.2 million. The asset is located just north of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. The Connor Group purchased the community from Sterling Parkside Apartments NF LLC. The acquisition is The Connor Group’s fifth transaction in Atlanta in the past 12 months — the previous four were property sales.
MIAMI — CBRE has arranged a $31 million refinancing loan for the River Oak Apartments, a 199-unit multifamily property located along the Miami River at 1951 N.W. S. River Drive in Miami. The apartment community was built in 2011, and its amenity package features a riverwalk, theater, business center, fitness center, pool and spa, clubroom, gated access with a 24-hour surveillance system and covered parking with controlled access. Charles Foschini, Christopher Apone, Christian Lee, Robert Given and Gerard Yetming of CBRE arranged the 10-year loan through Redwood Commercial Mortgage Co., a division of California-based Redwood Trust, on behalf of the borrower, AP SC River Oaks LLC.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Multi Housing Advisors (MHA) has brokered the $12 million sale of Hidden Creek, a 200-unit apartment community located at 2038 Quail Forest Drive in north Raleigh. The apartment complex, built in 1980, includes a business center, fitness center, playground, swimming pool and laundry facilities. Marc Robinson and Jordan McCarley of MHA’s Charlotte, N.C., office represented the seller, AB Merion Hidden Creek LLC, an affiliate of Merion Realty Partners, in the transaction. The buyer was FortCap Chatsworth LLC, an affiliate of Virginia Beach, Va.-based FortCap Partners. MHA was the sole brokerage firm in the transaction.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Partners has brokered the sale of a 27,418-square-foot medical office building located at 7825 Ballantyne Commons Parkway in Charlotte’s Ballantyne neighborhood. DHD Ventures purchased the asset from Trinity Partners’ sister company, Trinity Capital Advisors, for approximately $3.8 million. The property was 92 percent occupied at the time of sale. Mark Alviana and Sam DiFranco of Trinity Partners represented the seller in the transaction.
GRINNELL, IOWA — Hubbell Realty Co.’s rehabilitation of two Spaulding Center buildings in suburban Des Moines was selected to receive an affordable housing tax credit award of $604,500 from the Iowa Finance Authority (IFA). Hubbell had been pursuing the funding sources to bring Spaulding Lofts, a 77-unit apartment community in Grinnell, to fruition. With the funding in place, construction on the development is slated to begin in the fall. The Spaulding Center was originally built in the 1870s and is the former home of Spaulding Manufacturing Co., an automobile manufacturer. The $12.5 million conversion of these facilities into Spaulding Lofts will result in the creation of 41 one-bedroom and 36 two-bedroom lofts.