HURST, TEXAS — Texas-based investment firm SPI Advisory has acquired Park Place Apartments, a 120-unit multifamily complex located in the northern-central metroplex city of Hurst. Built in 1978, the property offers one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, tennis court, basketball court and outdoor grilling and dining areas. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. SPI Advisory plans to implement a value-add program.
KATY, TEXAS — CarSquad, a sister brand of Florida-based preowned car dealership Off Lease Only, has opened a 21,000-square-foot lot at the northwest corner of I-10 and U.S. Highway 99 in the western Houston suburb of Katy. The dealership houses an array of cars, trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles and also features kiosks on the sales floor. CarSquad built the facility but leased the land from Smithco. CBRE negotiated the ground lease.
DALLAS, HURST AND ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sales of three multifamily properties totaling 377 units in the Dallas area. The properties sold for a combined $36.6 million. Park Place totals 120 units and is located in the northern-central metroplex city of Hurst, while Twenty Oaks comprises 86 units and is located in nearby Arlington. The Francisco, which is situated about five miles from downtown Dallas, totals 171 units. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the sellers and buyers, all of which requested anonymity, in all three transactions.
SAN ANTONIO — Hunter Hotel Advisors has negotiated the sale of two Marriott-branded properties in San Antonio. The Courtyard by Marriott and Fairfield Inn & Suites SeaWorld/Westover Hills feature a combined 277 rooms and are located on the city’s west side. An undisclosed, institutional investment firm sold the hotels to Florida-based IRAS Group for an undisclosed price. David Perrin of Hunter Hotel Advisors represented the seller in the transaction.
SAN ANTONIO — CBRE has arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing for Network Crossing, a 143,831-square-foot office complex in northwest San Antonio. Network Crossing consists of five buildings that were 85 percent leased at the time of the loan closing. Brock Hudson and Beau Brehm of CBRE arranged the five-year, fixed-rate loan on behalf of the borrower, Houston-based investment firm Fuller Interests. The direct lender was not disclosed.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — SkyWalker Property Partners has sold Brookhollow Riverside, a 119,121-square-foot office building in the central metroplex city of Grand Prairie. Tom Strohbehn and Scott Farber of Younger Partners represented the seller in the transaction. Houston-based Silver Creek Realty Advisors purchased the building for an undisclosed price via a 1031 exchange. SkyWalker Property Partners originally purchased the building, which was 90 percent leased at the time of sale, in 2006.
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Dallas-based Kobalt Investment Co. has acquired Creekside Park Village Green, a 74,670-square-foot shopping center in The Woodlands, about 30 miles north of Houston. Built in 2014, the center was 88 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Fielding’s Local, Crust Pizza, Levure Bakery & Patisserie, Club Pilates and Cyclebar. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
By David Ebro, president of Levey Group Despite the nearly 6.4 million square feet of new project starts during the fourth quarter of 2022, which grew the volume of Houston’s industrial space currently under construction to 33.5 million square feet, the market posted a record 30.3 million square feet of net absorption for the year. This activity drove Houston’s vacancy rate down to 3.8 percent — a decline of 220 basis points from the end of 2021. The remarkable growth throughout the Houston MSA — the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area — has developers racing to find buildable sites both within and beyond the city limits. As a result, industrial development is bulging out of the city and into submarkets such as Baytown, Richmond and Brookshire as developers pursue more economically feasible land among these growing population centers. Beyond favorable land opportunities, Houston’s outlying submarkets offer the workforces that tenants require for their warehouse and distribution operations. These growing submarkets are also generating an increasing amount of demand from e-commerce users in the consumer goods sector. Record Growth East of Houston Much of the industrial growth can be found east of town, near and along the Houston Ship Channel. For the …
The mere flipping of the calendar to mark a new year has done nothing to inject certainty into the next 12 months. The higher cost of credit that muted commercial real estate investment sales in the second half of 2022 and the attitude of some sellers who refuse to recognize the new pricing reality remain in place in the new year. Many eyes are on the Federal Reserve, hoping for a respite in interest rate hikes after the central bank raised the effective benchmark federal funds rate some 400 basis points to 4.33 percent in less than a year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Some investors are even hoping for a rate cut. Neither of those is likely, at least in the short term, observes Arthur Milston, a senior managing director of NAI Global in New York City. While inflation has cooled to an annual rate of 6.5 percent from a high of 9.1 percent in June, that’s still far off from the roughly 2 percent annual target that the Fed desires, he adds. That should translate into continued tightening, Milston says, although the question is, how long will the central bank keep raising rates, and …
DALLAS, MESQUITE AND GARLAND, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm CanTex Capital has sold a portfolio of five industrial properties totaling 689,497 square feet in East Dallas. Two of the properties are located within the city limits, and the other three are located in the nearby suburbs of Mesquite and Garland. The portfolio comprises a mix of single- and multi-tenant buildings ranging in size from 19,000 to 184,000 square feet. Stephen Bailey, Dustin Volz, Dom Espinosa, Zach Riebe and Pauli Kerr of JLL represented CanTex Capital in the deal. The buyer was not disclosed. At the time of sale, the portfolio was fully leased to tenants such as ADCO Industries and ProLift Rigging Co.