SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Sares Regis Group of Northern California has completed the construction of Celeste, a ground-up residential development in downtown South San Francisco. Located at 401 Cypress Ave., the eight-story building offers 195 apartments, an onsite leasing center, a fitness loft and secure electric vehicle parking. Sares is pursuing LEED Silver certification for the development. BDE Architecture served as architect of record for Celeste.
GILROY, CALIF. — Gilroy Ventures LLC, a real estate investor, has acquired a commercial building on 13.7 acres in Gilroy, approximately 30 miles southeast of San Jose. Gilroy JRV LLC sold the asset for $13.8 million. Located at 7900 Arroyo Circle, a recreational vehicle business currently uses the 125,597-square-foot property as an indoor/outdoor showroom. The flexible property can also accommodate a variety of commercial uses, such as showroom, retail, warehouse and automotive. Miki Correa of Cushman & Wakefield, along with CBRE’s Rick Shaffer, Marie Anderson and John Shaffer, represented the seller in the transaction.
MURRIETA, CALIF. — Bell Partners, on behalf of its Value Add Fund VII investors, has purchased Silverado Apartment Homes, a multifamily community in Murrieta, approximately midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. Realty Center Management sold the asset for $146.5 million. The property will be renamed Bell Murrieta Springs. Completed in 2007, Bell Murrieta Springs offers 492 one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans with an average unit size of 948 square feet. Community amenities include a green belt with a walking trail surrounding the entire property, two pools and a clubhouse. The property also features walking access along a nature preserve to Meadowridge Park, a city-owned park. Kevin Green, Gregory Harris and Joseph Grabiec of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. With this acquisition, Bell Partners owns and/or manages 11 multifamily communities in Southern California totaling more than 3,100 apartments.
PALM DESERT, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Ariana at El Paseo, an apartment building in the Coachella Valley city of Palm Desert. Investment Concepts acquired the asset from 45278 Deep Canyon Road for $14 million, or $222,222 per unit. Eric Chen, Kevin Sin, Blake Torgerson, Dean Zander and Stew Weston of CBRE represented the seller in the deal. Located at 45278 Deep Canyon Road, the 63-unit property features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans, averaging 865 square feet. Each unit offers a fully equipped kitchen, vinyl plank flooring, oversized patios and balconies, central air and heating, and large closets. Community amenities include a resort-style pool, onsite laundry facilities, an outdoor lounge and fireplace, a pet play area and barbecue stations.
— By Anthony Pappageorge, Managing Director, NorthMarq — The Bay Area multifamily market is showing signs of stabilizing, although there are some persistent challenges present in the market that will impact operations. With 2024 likely to be a period of slower economic growth, there will be a continued emphasis on multifamily property operations. The challenges in the Bay Area rental market have shifted somewhat in recent years. In the period immediately following the pandemic, owners of rental properties were focused on maintaining occupancy levels and rent collections. In the current environment, added pressures surrounding rising property insurance costs and the prospect for additional rent control measures are increasing uncertainty to the Bay Area multifamily market. Occupancy: A Bit Lower than Usual, but Bouncing Back One multifamily property metric where the Bay Area routinely outperforms nearly every other part of the country is occupancy levels. Conditions remain tight at the beginning of 2024, with average occupancies ranging from about 96 percent in the South Bay and San Francisco, to about 94.5 percent in the East Bay. Current occupancies are about 50 basis points lower, on average, than in 2019. This is welcome news to operators who saw rates decline to about 90 …
ONTARIO, CALIF. — San Francisco-based Stockbridge has acquired a core industrial portfolio in the Inland Empire from Principal Asset Management for $142.2 million. Located at 3351 E. Philadelphia St. and 4450 E. Lowell St. in Ontario, the two-building portfolio offers 540,478 square feet of industrial space. At the time of sale, the properties were both 100 percent occupied. Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole, Rick Ellison and Matt Leupold of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Industrial Advisory Group – West represented the seller in the transaction. Phil Lombardo, Chuck Belden and Andrew Starnes of Cushman & Wakefield provided leasing advisory. Rob Rubano, Brian Share, Joseph Lieske, Max Schafer and Becca Tse of Cushman & Wakefield Equity, Debt & Structured Finance collaborated in sourcing acquisition financing for the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between Birtcher Anderson & Davis and Nuveen has purchased 7949 Stromesa Court, an industrial building in San Diego’s Miramar submarket, from an undisclosed seller for $26.5 million. Situated on 5.3 acres, the single-story, 107,564-square-foot building was 95 percent leased to 12 tenants. The property features grade- and dock-level loading, 22-foot warehouse clear heights and the ability to accommodate 53-foot truck trailers. Evan McDonald and Kurtis Blanchard of Colliers represented the buyer, while Dean Asaro of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the transaction.
RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. — Belmont Village Senior Living and Greystar Real Estate Partners have unveiled plans for Belmont Village Rancho Santa Fe, a luxury active adult community in Rancho Santa Fe, approximately 25 miles north of San Diego. Groundbreaking is scheduled to occur before the end of the year. The project will feature over 185 apartments including 15 freestanding cottages. The leaders of both Greystar and Belmont Village, Jerry Brand and Patricia Will, are long-term residents of Rancho Santa Fe. Belmont Village Rancho Santa Fe will be Belmont Village’s fourth community in the San Diego area and 17th in California since 2002. The company enjoys a relationship for program development with the University of California San Diego’s Stein Center for Research on Aging. HPI Architecture designed the development.
FRESNO, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the sale of Cherry Ave Self Storage, a self-storage facility on 5.4 acres at 1844 S. Cherry Ave. in Fresno. A public REIT sold the asset to PSC Fresno LLC, an affiliate of Pratt Street Capital LLC, for $8.2 million. Cherry Ave Self Storage consists of a three-story building and 12 one-story buildings offering a total of 1,085 units. The facility features drive-up units, freight elevators and boat and RV parking. Additionally, the property offers a 262-square-foot, newly renovated office. Brian Somoza of JLL Capital Markets’ investment sales and advisory team represented the seller in the deal.
GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — Strategic Retail Advisors (SRA) has arranged the sale of a retail building located at 10912 Katella Ave. in the Orange County city of Garden Grove. OC Freedomhouse Church acquired the former Walmart Neighborhood Market from a private investor for $18 million. OC Freedomhouse plans to operate a new religious facility, including church services, an accredited Bible college and a child daycare all within an existing 46,287-square-foot tenant space. Blaine Bush of SRA handled the transaction.
