ENCINITAS, CALIF. — A local, privately based partnership doing business as 605 3rd Street LLC has purchased an office building located at 605 3rd St. in Encinitas from GJS Properties LLC for $11 million. Originally constructed as a bank in the 1960s, the building offers 14,398 square feet of office space. Peter Curry and Owen Curry of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Conor Brennan of CBRE represented the buyer in the deal.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Glencrest Apartments, a multifamily property in Anaheim. A local family sold the asset to a limited liability company for $7.6 million. Glencrest Apartments offers 31 one- and two-bedroom units with vinyl and tile flooring, ceiling fans and private patios or balconies. The gated property features courtyards, a swimming pool, two onsite laundry facilities and garage parking. Drew Holden, Nick Kazemi and Tyler Leeson of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, while Christian Tait of Marcus & Millichap procured the buyer in the deal.
MONTCLAIR, CALIF. — SRS Real Estate Partners has directed the $5.7 million (or $1,451 per square foot) ground lease sale of a restaurant property located at 5212 Moreno St. in Montclair. Panera Bread occupies the 3,950-square-foot property on a single-tenant net-lease basis. The building, which was built in 2014, is secured by a corporate-guaranteed ground lease with 15 years remaining. Patrick Luther and Matthew Mousavi of SRS Capital Markets represented the seller, a Southern California- and Arizona-based developer. The buyer was a California-based private investor.
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. — Jacksonville, Fla.-based Regency Centers Corp. has acquired five shopping centers within the 23,000-acre master-planned community of Ranch Mission Viejo in Orange County, Calif., for $357 million. The properties, which comprise 630,000 square feet, include Bridgepark Plaza, Mercantile West, Mercantile East, Terrace Shops and Sendero Marketplace. The portfolio is 97 percent leased to a mix of needs-based tenants such as grocers, restaurants and health, wellness and personal service uses. The seller was Newport Beach, Calif.-based Westar Associates. Regency funded the acquisition with a combination of operating partnership (OP) units issued at $72 per unit, the assumption of $150 million of secured mortgage debt and $7 million in cash used to pay off a single secured loan. The assumed debt has a weighted average interest rate of 4.2 percent and term to maturity of 12 years. BofA Securities served as financial advisor to the seller and EY served as the tax advisor. Additionally, Latham & Watkins advised the seller in the transaction, while Paul Hastings advised Regency.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Encinitas-based Vista Emerald has acquired Pique at Angel Stadium, a 15,710-square-foot multi-tenant retail center located in Anaheim, for $11.3 million. Formerly known as The Shops at Stadium Towers, the property was originally built in 2006 on 2.2 acres. The center was fully leased to eight tenants including 714 Tickets, Aleppo’s Kitchen, Comerica Bank, LAMILL Coffee, Lolas by MFK and Non’s Vietnamese Kitchen at the time of sale, according to LoopNet. The property also offers 150 parking spaces, 16 Tesla Superchargers and prominent pylon street signage. Lee Csenar and Ed Hanley of Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors represented the seller, a Los Angeles-based private investor, in the transaction. Omar Hussein of Beacon Realty Advisors represented Vista Emerald.
— By Chris High, Steve Bruce and Conor Evans of Colliers — We’re in the middle of a market recalibration. On the office side, leasing has slowed significantly, with tenants downsizing footprints and pushing for shorter terms as hybrid work remains a dominant driver. In life sciences, we saw explosive growth from 2020 to mid-2022, but that pace has tapered off. VC funding is more selective, and some developers who stretched to convert commodity office and flex properties into lab space, often with less-than-ideal infrastructure, during the boom years, are now rethinking those strategies. Still, demand for high-quality, fitted lab space remains, especially in well-located projects by experienced owners like Longfellow, BioScience Properties, Sterling Bay, Healthpeak, BioMed, and ARE. These firms are adapting with thoughtful repositioning and delivering product that aligns with where tenant demand is today. In the near term, we expect continued headwinds. Commodity office space will face pressure on rents and absorption, while high-end life science campuses with strong sponsorship will be better positioned to attract demand. We expect Life Science to rebound in the next 12 to 18 months as capital markets settle and merger/acquisition (M&A) activity returns. Distressed office sales may continue as debt maturities …
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — ParkTerra and JEN Partners have acquired Axis, an office campus in Anaheim, from a joint venture between a global banking giant and Pendulum Property Partners for $62.5 million. CBRE National Office Partners’ Anthony DeLorenzo, Sammy Cemo and Bryan Johnson represented the seller. CBRE’s Greg Sullivan, Jennifer Whittington, David Dowd and Matt Didier also advised the seller on the transaction. Axis offers 306,664 square feet of office space at 2121-2170 Towne Centre Place, 2190 Town Centre Place and 2390 Orangewood Ave. The campus offers a creative office building tailored for owner-users, a residential redevelopment site and a high-end office asset.
LOS ANGELES — Mesa West Capital has provided an affiliate of Seaview Investors with $55 million in first mortgage debt to refinance Burton House Beverly Hills, a 186-room full-service hotel in West Los Angeles. Eastdil Secured arranged the five-year, nonrecourse financing. Seaview, which has been an investment partner in the hotel since 2003, recently completed a $13.7 million renovation as part of a repositioning under Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio Hotels & Resorts brand. Improvements included the redesign of guest rooms, the development of the Emerald Lounge, a new dining and social concept, updated entrances, a revamped lobby, new fitness center and a 1,100-square-foot yoga and Pilates studio. The refinancing provides the sponsor time to continue driving operating performance under the new brand and to compete with other luxury hotels in the Beverly Hills market, according to Mesa West.
EL CAJON, CALIF. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Terre at Ballantyne, a multifamily property in El Cajon. The asset traded for $14.4 million. Chris Zorbas, Alexander Garcia Jr. and Kyle Pinkalla of IPA represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal. Terra at Ballantyne features 60 units spread across 10 two-story buildings. Apartments offer air conditioning and heating, large closets and patios or balconies on select units. Community amenities include two swimming pools and two laundry facilities. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent occupied with 40 percent of the units renovated.
LOS ANGELES — Waterton has purchased AMLI Warner Center, a multifamily property situated in the Warner Center master-planned community in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Waterton will rebrand the gated community, located at 21200 Kittridge St., as The Kitt at Warner Center. Built in 2007, the property offers 522 one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans, a resort-style pool and spa, grilling stations with picnic tables, a fire pit and outdoor fireplace, dog park and pet washing station, jogging path with a six-station exercise course, fitness center and two structured parking garages. Waterton plans to renovate the units with new stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, new cabinet fronts and hardware in kitchens and baths, as well as updated lighting and plumbing fixtures, backsplashes, paint and vinyl plank flooring. Common areas will be reconfigured to maximize use of the space and enhance the resident experience.
