TEMPLE, TEXAS — Colliers Mortgage has provided a Fannie Mae loan of an undisclosed amount for the acquisition of The Retreat Apartments, a 224-unit multifamily asset located in the Central Texas city of Temple. The property comprises 20 two-story garden-style buildings, a leasing office, pool, laundry facility, fitness center and a picnic and BBQ area. Colliers Mortgage originated the 10-year loan through a partnership with Old Capital Lending on behalf of the undisclosed borrower.
SAGINAW, TEXAS — A partnership between Journey Capital and SilverPoint Senior Living has completed Phase I of Edition of Saginaw, a 6.2-acre senior living campus in Saginaw, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. Phase I comprised 22 one- and two-bedroom independent living cottages. The development team has also broken ground on Phase II of the project, which will add 74 assisted living and memory care apartments. The 57,000-square-foot expansion is slated for a fall-2023 completion.
In 2021, supply chain issues, increased costs, wage inflation and the logistical challenges of completing projects compounded to negatively impact the affordable housing pipeline. According to Gregg Gerken, head of U.S. Commercial Real Estate with TD Bank, 2022 looks fantastic for the affordable housing sector as those issues are beginning to resolve. However, he notes that the affordable housing sector is still challenged by delays related to financing challenges, among other factors. Demand for affordable housing, federal level commitments to the sector and the continued involvement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are all positive factors for the outlook of affordable housing. However, Gerken notes, “Financing is somewhat challenged by gaps in funding. With pricing and costs going up, there’s a gap between how much a project might support from a loan side versus how much in tax credits are allocated to that project during the last round of allocations. Some of that gap between overall costs and the funding sources is being made up as local agencies put in additional money in order to get affordable housing done.” Hear what Gerken has to say about the development of workforce and affordable housing and the involvement of government-sponsored …
Greystone Provides $49M Acquisition Loan for Life at Westpark Affordable Housing Property in Houston
HOUSTON — Greystone has provided a $49 million HUD-insured acquisition loan for The Life at Westpark, a 312-unit affordable housing community in Houston. Built in 1994, The Life at Westpark comprises two-, three- and four-bedroom units that are reserved for residents earning 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI). Amenities include two pools, a playground and a basketball court. Shana Daby of Greystone originated the nonrecourse financing, which was structured with a fixed interest rate and a 35-year amortization schedule, on behalf of the borrower, New York City-based private equity firm Olive Tree Holdings. The new ownership plans to invest $25,000 per unit, or roughly $7.8 million, in capital improvements to preserve the property’s affordability status, which expires in 2025.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Multifamily developer Wood Partners has broken ground on Alta Berry Creek, a 300-unit apartment community within the 314-acre Berry Creek Highlands master-planned community in Georgetown, located north of Austin. Units will come in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats and will be furnished with stainless steel appliances, tile backsplashes and full-size washers and dryers. Communal amenities will include a pool, outdoor kitchen, pet park, fitness center, business center and a resident lounge. Preleasing will begin in the fourth quarter, with the opening scheduled for January 2023. Upon completion, Berry Creek Highlands will consist of 1,500 single-family homes, retail and restaurant space, an elementary school and a 20-acre park.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 213,546-square-foot industrial lease in Fort Worth. The name and address of the property were not disclosed. Tom Walrich and Corbin Blount of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, KGP Telecommunications, in the lease negotiations. Trey Fricke, Reid Bassinger and Becky Thompson, also with Lee & Associates, represented the landlord, Industrial Realty Group.
SAN ANTONIO — Fort Worth-based investment firm Fort Capital has acquired an 80,230-square-foot industrial property located at 6103 Farinon Drive within the University Park master-planned community in northwest San Antonio. The Class B property was fully leased at the time of sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
HOUSTON — Northern Tool + Equipment has signed a lease to open a 31,000-square-foot store at Woodforest Shopping Center in East Houston. Shawn Ackerman and Jason Du of Henry S. Miller Brokerage represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Clay Mote of Retail Union and Jason Baker with Baker Katz represented Northern Tool.
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Web-Based Appraisal Tool Supports Massive Increase in Demand for Multifamily Valuations
Multifamily appraisers are extremely busy as investor interest in the sector is at an all-time high. “In terms of appraisal professionals, there is a supply and demand issue,” explains Meghan Czechowski, managing director and valuation lead for Apprise by Walker & Dunlop. She notes that the industry has greater demand for valuation than it has qualified appraisers. “Apprise is ensuring that we can support our appraisal staff and our local market experts with a tech-enabled process so that they can do their jobs more efficiently and get the values (and market information in general) into our clients’ hands as quickly as possible,” she adds. Czechowski focuses on the ways that web-based multifamily valuations can be streamlined to create a faster and more complete picture of properties. Multifamily experts need information on properties/parcels that comes from “multiple industry-standard resources such as Yardi, REIS, RCA and public record aggregators.” Parcel-level information, unit mix metrics, sale leads, land records and site assessment information are all available through Apprise’s platform via a single sign on to a dashboard that reflects information that is constantly being updated. This means that when an expert uses this platform and picks up the phone to confirm about …
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — TGS Cedar Port Partners LP, the owner of the 15,000-acre Cedar Port Industrial Park near Port Houston, will develop a 507,000-square-foot warehouse for online furniture retailer Article. John Simons and Gray Gilbert of NAI Partners represented TGS Cedar Port in the lease negotiations for the build-to-suit project. Andrew Lord and Walker Barnett of Colliers represented Article. Other tenants at the rail- and barge-served park include The Home Depot, Floor & Décor, IKEA, Walmart, Vinmar and Ravago. Site work will begin before the end of the current quarter, and the project is expected to be complete before the end of the year.