LAKE OSWEGO, ORE. — Gantry has secured a $15.5 million permanent loan for the refinancing of Lake View Village, a mixed-use office and retail property in downtown Lake Oswego, a suburb south of Portland. The master-planned project is located at State Street and A Avenue and offers 91,000 square feet of rentable office and retail space in six village-style buildings ranging from one- to three-stories. Tenants include dining, retail and professional services tenants. Blake Hering and Alicia Sabanero of Gantry represented the borrower, a private real estate investor and the center’s original developer. One of Gantry’s correspondent life company lenders provided the 10-year loan, which features a 30-year amortization at a fixed interest rate.
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— By Josh McDonald, Executive Vice President, CBRE’s Institutional Multifamily Investment Services — Recent data points to positive trends in Portland’s multifamily leasing market heading into the summer months. The rebound in absorption and declining new supply — primarily driven by an active suburban renter base — highlight the resilience and growth potential of the local rental market. The positive leasing trends in Portland have contributed to create an increase in recent investment sales opportunities. Strong leasing performance, as indicated by elevated absorption rates and demand for rental properties, often translates into positive investor sentiment and heightened investment activity in the multifamily sector. This may signal to investors that the market has opportunities for solid returns and growth potential. The green shoots in seasonal leasing are weighted in the suburbs with demand accounting for more than 65 percent of the net change in occupied units, emphasizing a strong preference for suburban living. With more than 3,100 units absorbed in 2024 already, the year is on track to surpass the full-year totals for both 2022 and 2023. This may potentially exceeding the 10-year average as well, according to CoStar. Denser urban areas and the Central Business District also experienced an increase …
— By Gabe Schnitzer, Vice President of Industrial Properties, Norris & Stevens — Portland and Southwest Washington possess a total industrial real estate market of 233 million square feet. Portland is frequently praised as the most affordable city on the West Coast, offering lower average home prices compared to its northern and southern counterparts, while providing a high quality of life for its residents. From 2017 to 2022, Portland’s average annual industrial sales volume was $810 million, with institutional funds accounting for 20 percent of the total sales volume during that time. This represented the highest average industrial volume for the city, with early 2022 boasting nearly $1.4 billion in total sales volume. Then Portland experienced its wake-up call. Ill-conceived legislation, poor leadership and damaging national media coverage caused the city’s reputation to decline. This, in turn, led to a significant drop in the city’s industrial sales volume. From 2022 to 2023, the volume fell by almost $500 million. Despite hopes of stabilization in 2024, sales volume dropped further by nearly $150 million. While some of this decline can be attributed to interest rates and other macroeconomic factors beyond Portland’s control, the impact on institutional investors has been severe. Their …
— By Jessica Ramey, Executive Vice President and Co-Lead for Agency Leasing, and Patricia Raicht, Head of Research for U.S. West and Latin America, JLL — Portland’s office sector is a tale of market cycles, with many signs trending in positive directions. Leasing continues to strengthen, tenants are taking space for longer terms and certain sectors are performing better than others. All of this provides opportunities for those able to execute on them. Portland’s suburban market is second best in the U.S. with a 13 percent vacancy that is significantly below the U.S. average of 21.9 percent. By contrast, the urban market recently tied with Phoenix for the fifth-highest vacancy nationally. Vacancy had been increasing in downtown Portland, but the rate of negative absorption is starting to moderate. JLL anticipates the numbers will turn positive in 2025. Urban/Downtown Market Green-Shoots Rising The revitalization of downtown is making significant progress thanks to efforts by both local government and private-sector groups. As such, the migration of tenants out of the urban core has largely subsided. Nevertheless, as corporations begin to evaluate their space needs and location options, they remain concerned about safety and parking. Many are also increasingly looking at public transit and area amenities …
IRVINE, CALIF. — Irvine-based IRA Capital, in partnership with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, has purchased 12 medical outpatient buildings totaling 600,000 square feet. The transaction includes two separate institutional sellers and features a mix of single and multi-tenant medical buildings in California, Texas, Florida and Oregon. Terms of the transaction were not released. The Class A portfolio is anchored by health systems and medical providers including UC Davis Health, Palomar Health, UCLA, CommonSpirit, Ascension, McKesson and SCA Health, which collectively occupy approximately 50 percent of the space.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Norris & Stevens has arranged the sale of a mini-storage warehouse, located at 5620-5622 S. Kelly Ave. in Portland. Ronald A. Buss and Teresa McCurdy sold the asset to Macadam Moving LLC for $1.6 million. Constructed in 1964 as a warehouse and renovated into a self-storage facility in 1998, the 17,322-square-foot property offers 168 individuals storage units, four office/retail spaces and a freight elevator. Greg Nesting and Gabe Schnitzer of Portland-based Norris & Stevens represented the seller, while Jason Kennedy of RE/MAX Equity Group represented the buyer in the deal.
PORTLAND, ORE. — PCCP has provided a $45 million senior loan to a joint venture between Alamo Manhattan and MetLife Investment Management for the refinancing of The Dylan, an apartment property in Portland. Located at 3883 S. Moody Ave., The Dylan offers 232 apartments and 6,154 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Built in 2022, The Dylan features 19 studios, 185 one-bedroom and 28 two-bedroom units, with an average size of 724 square feet. The units feature nine-foot ceilings, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops with designer backsplashes, plank flooring and washers/dryers. Select units include a kitchen island, separate shower, walk-in closet and private balcony. Community amenities include communal workspaces, a fitness center, top-floor resident lounge, dog wash station, private courtyard with fireplaces and barbecues, and a rooftop terrace with views of downtown Portland, as well as one floor of subterranean parking. Charles Halladay and Charlie Watson of JLL Capital Markets Debt Advisory arranged the non-recourse loan.
NORTH PLAINS, ORE. — Colliers has arranged the completion of a 10-year lease agreement with DB Schenker, as the tenant, and the forward sale of North Plains Logistics Center to STAG Industrial Holdings. Far West Fibers sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on 10.5 acres in North Plains, located within Oregon’s Silicon Forest submarket just west of Portland, North Plains Logistics Center features 201,750 square feet of industrial space. Jerry Matson and Colin Russell of Colliers, along with West Industrial Capital Markets’ Michael Kendall and Gian Bruno, represented the seller in the deal. Matson and Cole Hooper of Colliers represented tenant, DB Schenker, in the site selection and lease negotiations. Matson and Russell also represented the landlord in lease negotiations.
NORTHBROOK, ILL. — Pine Tree, in partnership with a state pension fund, has purchased six open-air shopping centers from SITE Centers Corp. (NYSE: SITC) for $495 million. The portfolio comprises 2.5 million square feet and includes properties in metros such as Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati; Phoenix; and Portland, Oregon. The assets included in the portfolio are: The portfolio’s retail anchors include Kroger, New Seasons Market, The Fresh Market, Target, Ulta Beauty, Nordstrom Rack, Dick’s Sporting Goods and 13 stores leased by TJX Cos. Pine Tree is a retail developer and management company based in Northbrook, Illinois. The deal, which was sourced off-market, brings Pine Tree’s assets under management to a total of approximately $2.5 billion and 20 million square feet. SITE Centers is a retail REIT based in Beachwood, Ohio. The SITC stock price opened at $14.56 on Friday, June 14, up slightly from $13.19 one year prior. — Channing Hamilton
PORTLAND, ORE. — Gantry has arranged a $16.2 million permanent loan for the acquisition of a warehouse facility located at 6447 N. Cutter Circle in Portland. FedEx Ground fully occupies the 212,000-square-foot building, which was redeveloped in 2015. The 126-door, cross-docked facility offers ready access to the Port of Portland, Interstate 5, Union Pacific Railroad and Portland International Airport. Tony Kaufmann and Joe Foley of Gantry’s San Francisco production office represented the borrower, a private real estate investor. The long-term, fixed-rate loan was secured from one of Gantry’s correspondent life company lenders and structured with a term that exceeds the tenant’s firm lease term. The loan features interest-only payments for half the term, followed by a 30-year amortization period.