SHORELINE, WASH. — CBRE has secured an $85.5 million construction loan for the development of Ion, a 252-unit apartment community in Shoreline. Bill Chiles, Scott Peterson and Morgon Fraser of CBRE’s Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance team arranged the loan for AAA Management, the developer. Located at 345 NE 149th St., Ion will feature seven stories of residential space above three levels of subterranean parking with 241 parking spaces. Tenant amenities will include a fitness facility, rooftop deck and bike storage. Completion is slated for April 2024, with an opening scheduled for July 15, 2024.
VACAVILLE, CALIF. — Nella Holdings and Tower Investments, two local family-owned companies, have acquired Nut Tree Plaza in Vacaville. A partnership managed by Dallas-based Dunhill Partners sold the asset for $124.5 million. Located at 1621 E. Monte Vista Ave, the 371,114-square-foot Nut Tree Plaza features 68 retail stores, 17 restaurants and outdoor attractions, including a kiddie train. Current tenants include Nordstrom Rack, ULTA Beauty, Best Buy, PetSmart, Five Below, Cost Plus World Market, HomeGoods, Old Navy, Buffalo Wild Wings, Michaels, Bevmo!, Panera Bread, Peet’s Coffee, See’s Candies, Jelly Belly Candy Store and Jamba Juice. At the time of sale, the property was 96 percent occupied. Dunhill Partners will provide property management services for the retail center. Jimmy Slusher, Philip Voorhees and James Tyrrell of CBRE’s National Retail Partners – West represented the seller, a partnership managed by Dallas-based Dunhill Partners, while DCA Partners facilitated the relationship between the buyers. Citibank and Wells Fargo financed the transaction.
LAS VEGAS — RealComm Advisors has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 4750 W. Sunset Road in Las Vegas. Oulette DS acquired the 42,000-square-foot building for $10.7 million. Greg Pancirov and Paul Hoyt of RealComm handled the transaction.
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Lee & Associates’ First-Quarter 2022 Economic Rundown by Sector
Lee & Associates’ newly released Q1 2022 North America Market Report scrutinizes first-quarter 2022 industrial, office, retail and multifamily outlooks throughout the United States. This class-by-class review of commercial real estate trends for the first quarter of the year focuses on how real estate is adjusting to long-term post-COVID attitudes. Lee & Associates has made the full market report available here (with further breakdowns of factors like vacancy rates, market rents, inventory square footage and cap rates by city), but the overviews offered below provide sweeping looks at the overall health and obstacles for four major commercial real estate sectors. Industrial: Rents Pushed on Strong Demand Strong demand for industrial space throughout North America continued in the first quarter as vacancies fell to record lows and rent growth hit double digits. First quarter net absorption in the United States totaled 92.8 million square feet, which was up 25 percent year over year but down 35 percent from the 143-million-square feet average of the last three quarters of 2021. Annualized rents rose 10.1 percent in the U.S. and the average vacancy rate fell to 4.1 percent. Part of this trend was due to a pause in new construction starts early in the pandemic. However, …
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — Drawbridge Realty has purchased one of the Arrow Buildings at Dry Creek Station in Englewood for $106 million. The acquisition is Drawbridge’s first since completing a $1.7 billion recapitalization of its national portfolio in February with institutional investors KKR and General Atlantic. Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW) fully occupies the 223,177-square-foot, Class A headquarters building, located at 9151 E. Panorama, on a long-term basis. Constructed in 2017, the property enabled Arrow to consolidate its more than 1,600 local employees spread across nine buildings into one campus-style location. The seven-story building offers parking for more than 1,300 cars and is adjacent to Interstate 25 and near the Dry Creek light rail station. The acquired building is adjacent to Arrow’s other worldwide headquarters building. Terms of the transaction were not released.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Interquest I-IV, a four-building flex, office and healthcare portfolio located at 9925, 9945, 9950 and 9960 Federal Drive in Colorado Springs. An undisclosed seller sold the asset to a Denver-based private partnership for an undisclosed price. Aaron Johnson and Jon Hendrickson of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. Constructed in phases in 2001 and 2008/2009, the buildings offer a total of 241,232 square feet of flex, office and healthcare space. At the time of sale, the portfolio was 76 percent leased to a healthcare and technology tenants. Interquest I (9945 Federal Drive) and Interquest II (9925 Federal Drive) have LEED Silver certification.
SEATTLE — Kidder Mathews has brokered the sale of a portfolio of apartment properties located in the Junction neighborhood of West Seattle. The communities sold for a combined price of $58.3 million. The names of the seller and buyer were not released. The portfolio includes an 80-unit building that opened in 2016 and a 62-unit building that opened in 2020. The properties are located at Junction Flats at 4433 42nd Ave. SW and Junction Landing at 4417 42nd Ave. SW. Jerrid Anderson, Brandon Lawler and Dylan Simon of the Simon and Anderson Team at Kidder Mathews’ Seattle headquarters represented the seller and directly sourced the buyer in the transaction.
GRESHAM, ORE. — Trion Properties has completed the disposition of Edison Apartments, a multifamily community located at 1833 6th St. in Gresham, the largest suburb of Portland. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $19.5 million. Completed in 2020, Edison Apartments features 64 units with in-unit washers/dryers, stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, air conditioning, modern wooden blinds, large windows and storage units. Community amenities include onsite parking, a communal picnic area, children’s playground, landscaped grounds and video surveillance. Jordan Carter, Tyler Linn and Clay Newton of Kidder Mathews represented the seller in the transaction.
PHOENIX — Meridian has completed the sale of Grunow Memorial Medical Center, a medical office property located in Phoenix. A private Canadian investor acquired the asset for $17.9 million. Located at 925 E. McDowell, Grunow Memorial Medical Center features 53,000 square feet of medical office space. At the time of sale, the building was 90 percent leased to 12 tenants, including DaVita Dialysis. Lester A. Bryon designed the property, which was constructed in 1931. Mindy Berman of JLL represented Meridian in the transaction.
Property tax systems vary from state to state across the country, with differing procedures in each assessor’s jurisdiction. Complicating things further, the personalities of assessors and their staff influence the way they interact with property owners or their agents. It is the responsibility of the property owner or their agent to learn and adapt to the procedures and behaviors at work in their assessor’s offices. However, there are universal pre-emptive steps that property owners in any jurisdiction can take to combat excessive valuations. These property-specific action items and best practices can significantly increase the chances of a successful valuation protest. 1. Document Property Financial Statements In most appraisal systems, income-producing apartment property will be valued using the income approach. Arguably the most important pieces of information the apartment owner can present in protesting assessed values are the property’s rent rolls and profit-and-loss statements. The timely preparation and completion of these documents prior to a protest is essential to any discussion of fair market value. Key line items such as potential gross income, vacancy and collection loss, and net operating income can assist in negotiating lower assessed values. Market rent, in-place rents and occupancy are key indicators on a rent roll …