AURORA, COLO. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged $55.3 million in acquisition financing to the 467-unit Highline Village Apartment Homes in Aurora. The community is located at 490 S. Joplin St. It was built in 1984. Tim DeWispelaere arranged the financing.
LOS ANGELES — George Smith Partners has secured $33 million in refinancing for a nine-property multifamily portfolio in Los Angeles. The portfolio is located in the West Hollywood and Koreatown neighborhoods. The transaction required nine separate loans to close concurrently with a structure that provided $5 million in return of equity to the owner and developer. Ultimately, two capital providers provided the loans at a five-year fixed rate of 3.15 percent. Each of the nine loans will self-liquidate over 30 years. After the initial five-year fixed-rate period, the rates will reset and float at 235 over LIBOR for the remaining 25-year term. A step-down prepayment is underwritten, which opens without penalty after the third year. Bryan Shaffer, Jon Shapiro and Max Lehrman arranged the loans.
LAS VEGAS — Majestic Realty Co. has broken ground on a 295,500-square-foot speculative warehouse distribution center at its Beltway Business Park in Las Vegas. The warehouse will be situated just south of the Southern Beltway at the intersection of Jones Boulevard and Badura Avenue. Notable tenants at the park include Switch Communications, GES, NV Energy, Brady Industries and MGM. Thomas & Mack Development Group served as development partner on this project.
TEMECULA, CALIF. — The Mount Palomar Winery has received county approval to develop a resort and event venue in Temecula. The resort will include 180 guest rooms ranging from hotel rooms to cottages and villas. It will also feature a 1,800-seat amphitheater, restaurant, retail space and spa, in addition to a 17,000-square-foot tasting room. Mount Palomar will also add more vineyards and a production facility capable of producing 60,000 cases of wine per year.
Financial markets worldwide have seen dramatic volatility in this past 12 months. The Bay Area economy and new hiring have cooled, while the San Francisco housing and condo markets have started to normalize after four feverishly overheated years. We are hearing about a big jump in apartment vacancy rates, with more apartments for rent than we’ve seen in many years just as rental rates begin to decline from recent all-time peaks. As would be expected, preliminary indicators show a transition to a cooler market when it comes to apartment building sales activity. However, as illustrated in the charts below, we haven’t seen any significant changes in the statistics. The second half of 2016 will undoubtedly provide more insight regarding the speed and scale of any market condition changes. San Francisco multifamily assets that contained more than five units experienced a plateau in cap rates year over year between 2015 and 2016. However, this same product experienced an increase in dollars per square foot, price per unit and average sale prices. The politics of new home development in San Francisco are not for the weak of heart. There are vocal disagreements between neighborhood and homeowner associations, developers, affordable housing advocates, tenant’s …
CITRUS HEIGHTS, CALIF., AND CORVALLIS, ORE. — Summit Healthcare REIT has acquired 20 percent interest in two seniors housing communities — Sun Oak Senior Living and Regent Court Senior Living— for $23 million. Summit, a non-traded REIT based in Lake Forest, Calif., acquired the interest from an undisclosed, publicly traded REIT. The two properties are leased to Compass Senior Living, an Oregon-based operator. Sun Oak Senior Living is a 78-bed assisted living and memory care community in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights. Regent Court is a 48-bed memory care community in Corvallis, approximately midway between Portland and Eugene. Capital One – Healthcare Financial Solutions LLC provided financing for the transaction. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, a brokerage firm based in Chicago, arranged the deal. Tim Cobb led the Blueprint team.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Equus Capital Partners has sold Scottsdale Financial Center, a 107,000-square-foot office building, for an undisclosed sum. The Class A building is located at 4110 N. Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. It is 93 percent leased. The buyer was Alternative Investments & Manager Selection Real Estate Group, a business unit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
HILO, HAWAII — DoubleTree by Hilton has opened the Grand Naniloa Hotel Hilo, a 320-room hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii. The historic property recently underwent a $30 million renovation. The hotel includes Hilo’s only nine-hole golf course, along with a swimming pool and fitness center. It is located at 93 Banyan Drive. WHR LLC owns the property, which Aqua-Aston Hospitality manages.
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A private investor has acquired the 80-unit Hillside Apartments in San Bernardino for $10.2 million. The community is located at 2156-2196 Kendall Drive. It is situated just one mile from Cal State San Bernardino. Warren Berzack of Berzack Investment Property Advisors and Slavic Zlatkin of Lee & Associates represented the buyer. Lee’s Ryan O’Connor represented the seller, SB Hillside Properties, in this transaction.
CASA GRANDE, ARIZ. — Commercial Properties Inc. (CPI) has arranged the sale of a 12,849-square-foot strip center located in Casa Grande. The property was fully occupied at the time of sale by tenants including Cold Stone Creamery, UPS Store, Supercuts and Firehouse Subs. Sarge Glenn of CPI’s Industrial Team represented the seller, LBUBS 2004-C8 Retail 1664 LLC. Mike Sayre of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer, SimonMed Imaging, which purchased the property for $1.8 million.
