FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Rio Vista, a 246-unit apartment complex in Fort Worth. Located on the city’s northeast side, Rio Vista offers one- and two-bedroom units and amenities such as two pools, a playground, dog park and a soccer field. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, Florida-based Greenwater Investments, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, an undisclosed, California-based investor that plans to make capital improvements to the property.
FRISCO, TEXAS — Locally based general contractor KWA Construction has broken ground on Remy, a 357-unit multifamily project located within the 147-acre Frisco Square mixed-use development on the northern outskirts of Dallas. Designed by HEDK Architects and developed by Toll Brothers, Remy will offer units that are furnished with stainless steel appliances and stone countertops. Most residences will include washers and dryers and private balconies. The amenity package will comprise a pool, sky deck, speakeasy lounge, library, fitness center, coworking space, clubroom, media room and a package handling system. Completion is slated for early 2024.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Copper Creek, a 274-unit apartment community located on the east side of Fort Worth. The property was built in 1986 and comprises 17 buildings, as well as a pool, soccer field, playground and onsite laundry facilities. An undisclosed, California-based private investment firm sold Copper Creek to California-based Tides Equities. Al Silva and Ford Braly of Marcus & Millichap brokered the deal.
HOUSTON — Los Angeles-based Thorofare Capital has provided a $48 million acquisition loan for an undisclosed, 246-unit multifamily property in Houston. Built in 2017 in the city’s Tanglewood neighborhood, the property features an average unit size of 1,427 square feet and was 92 percent occupied at the time of sale. The loan was structured with a fixed interest rate, a seven-year initial term and four years of interest-only payments. The borrower was also not disclosed.
DALLAS — Merit Brass, a manufacturer of steel, brass and aluminum pipe nipples, has signed a 68,736-square-foot industrial lease at 10614-10676 King William Drive in northwest Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the property sits on 5.2 acres and spans 133,979 square feet. Reed Parker of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Ken Wesson and Adam Graham, also with Lee & Associates, represented the landlord, EastGroup Properties.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has negotiated a 23,652-square-foot office lease at 945 Bunker Hill Road in West Houston. The property is located within the 300-acre Memorial City mixed-use development. Griff Bandy of NAI Partners represented the tenant, locally based oil and gas firm BW Energy USA Management, in the lease negotiations. Brad MacDougall and Warren Alexander of MetroNational represented the landlord on an internal basis.
After seeing its population grow by 97,000 between July 2020 and 2021, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex is now home to nearly 8 million people, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. And it’s getting increasingly harder to adequately and affordably house the growing population. The problem isn’t new, just exacerbated, and it’s hardly unique to DFW. But when a market experiences the rate of population growth that the metroplex has over the last decade, the question of how much housing inventory exists that’s financially feasible for the average resident to rent or own gets thrust under the microscope. Of course, there’s a major difference between housing that’s affordable and affordable housing. The former is something of an arbitrary concept, whereas the latter carries a precise legal and regulatory definition. But the socioeconomic issue embodied within the two is largely the same. General Barriers A recent report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition ranked Texas — once heralded as the land of infinite land — as the sixth-worst state in terms of availability of rental housing for low-income households. This finding runs counter to Texas’ longstanding reputation as a state with an affordable cost of living, but …
NORMAN, OKLA. — CBRE has arranged the sale of 2900 Apartments, a 556-bed student housing community located near the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Built in 1999, the property offers 156 units and is situated adjacent to the university’s golf course. Jaclyn Fitts, William Vonderfecht, Casey Schaefer and Matt Bukhshtaber of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the disposition of the property to Hamilton Point Investments. The sales price was also not disclosed.
ANNA, TEXAS — Palladium USA, a locally based affordable housing developer, has broken ground on East Foster Crossing, a $64 million mixed-income residential community in Anna, located north of Dallas in Collin County. East Foster Crossing will feature 239 units in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, conference center, a children’s playroom, dog park and a clubroom. HEDK Architects is designing the project, and BBL Construction is the general contractor. Preleasing will begin next summer. Information on specific income restrictions was not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Berkadia has arranged the sale of Creekside Villas at Clear Lake, a 202-unit workforce housing community in Houston. The property was built in 1979 and offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a lounge with a coffee bar, a resident kitchen, pool, fitness center, outdoor grilling areas and onsite laundry facilities. Joey Rippel, Chris Young, Kyle Whitney, Jeffrey Skipworth, Chris Curry and Todd Marix of Berkadia represented the seller, metro Dallas-based ClearWorth Capital, in the transaction. Cutt Ableson, also with Berkadia, arranged acquisition financing through New York City-based Ready Capital on behalf of the buyer, partnership between Utah-based Trinnium Equity Group and Dallas-based Starboard Equity.