VANCOUVER, WASH. — Walker & Dunlop Inc. (NYSE: WD) has closed a $3.4 million loan for Arbor Ridge Assisted Living with the Vancouver Housing Authority. Arbor Ridge Assisted Living provides affordable housing for seniors who cannot afford private facilities within the local market. This is the first Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) transaction Walker & Dunlop and HUD’s Lean 232 program have completed for a health care facility. The RAD program is HUD’s major effort to recapitalize public affordable housing. RAD focuses on conserving affordable rental housing, meeting the needs of residents and constructing lasting communities along with supporting future property improvements. The Arbor Ridge transaction was structured with a 35-year term and a 35-year amortization schedule. Additionally, the loan was written to a 78.5 percent loan-to-value and 1.45 debt service coverage ratio. Michael Vaughn, senior vice president, led the Walker & Dunlop team.
With all the recent froth in the multifamily markets, knowledgeable observers are expressing concern regarding all of the cranes that are sprouting around Seattle. To assess the apartment market, we have compiled data recently published in the “March 2015 Apartment Development Report” by Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors. The Seattle Metro area is in the midst of an apartment development boom, with an estimated 17,400 units under construction, 12,000 units to be completed and ready for occupancy in 2015 and 11,000 units to be delivered in 2016. There is an additional 25,000 additional units in various stages of planning for delivery over the next five years. This new construction is in response to low vacancy rates (3.5 percent in the Seattle MSA, excluding vacancies for properties in initial lease-up), job expansion and related in-migration to the area. These trends have resulted in rising rents for new projects, up more than 7.4 percent in the region in the past 12 months (skewed by rents in newly opened projects). The new units under construction or proposed are heavily weighted to the close-in neighborhoods surrounding the Seattle CBD (Belltown, Downtown Seattle, South Lake Union) and close-in neighborhoods north of Lake Union (Ballard, Greenlake/Wallingford, …
SEATTLE – Community Health Plan of Washington has leased 91,816 square feet of office space in Downtown Seattle. The space is located at 1111 Third Ave. The local not-for-profit health plan will be relocating from its current space in late 2016. The company was represented by Larry Almeleh and Pat Pendergast of Washington Partners. The landlord, Ivanhoe Cambridge and Callahan Capital Properties, was represented by Lisa Stewart and Jim Allison of Urbis Partners.
SEATTLE — Retail Properties of America (RPA) has acquired Woodinville Plaza, a 171,000-square-foot shopping center near Redmond, for $35.3 million. The center is located at 14001 – 14235 NE Woodinville Duvall Road in Woodinville, on the eastside of the Puget Sound region. Woodinville Plaza was 91 percent occupied at the time of closing. It is anchored by County Market, a SuperValu concept. Other notable tenants include T.J. Maxx and Rite Aid.
The Seattle office market has been a shining example of strength and solidity. Compared to the U.S. job rate, which expanded by 2.4 percent over the past year to drop the unemployment rate to just 5.5 percent, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Statistical Area is looking good. Seattle added jobs at a rate of 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2015. It also saw employment gains in every category. The unemployment rate remained in line with the U.S. rate at 5.5 percent. Construction led all job sectors with 12.6 percent growth, followed by professional and business services at 4.2 percent. The Seattle Central Business District office market showed continued improvement as the overall vacancy rate declined by 2.8 percentage points on a year-over-year basis. Asking rents continued to climb in all submarkets with an overall increase of 4 percent, while Class A rents increased by 5.6 percent. Making tech giants feel at home is nothing new to the Seattle area. The largest lease of the past quarter was Facebook’s 274,000-square-foot deal at Dexter Station. With a planned delivery of May 2015, Dexter Station will be a 10-story, 345,992-square foot office building located in the flourishing Lower Queen Anne/Lake Union submarket. Facebook …
SHORELINE, Wash — Investment banking firm Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has arranged the sale of Shoreline Health and Rehab, a skilled nursing facility in the Seattle suburbs, for $6.6 million. Opened in 1968, the 106-bed facility underwent a $3 million renovation in 2012 which added 40 private rooms, accommodating more Medicare short-term rehabilitation patients. ESI represented the seller; the buyer was a publicly traded REIT.
SEATTLE – Pathfinder Partners has divested the 78-unit Redondo Terrace apartments in Seattle. The community was purchased by a local investor for $7.5 million. It is located at 29421 Pacific Highway South in the Federal Way submarket, just south of Downtown Seattle. The property was originally known as the View at Redondo. Pathfinder completed extensive value-add improvements prior to the sale. The buyer was represented by George Miller of Marcus & Millichap.
VANCOUVER, WASH. – A 5,900-square-foot space in Vancouver that is net leased to Round Table Pizza has sold to an individual/personal trust for $2 million. The space is located at 5016 NE Thurston Way. It is situated adjacent to the Westfield Vancouver Mall. Round Table recently signed a 10-year lease extension and performed a major interior renovation at the property. The pizza chain was represented by Justin Poor of Marcus & Millichap’s Portland office. The seller, a limited liability company, was represented by Michael R. Kapnick of the same firm.
BELLEVUE, WASH. – PCCP LLC and Align Real Estate have formed a joint venture to purchase a 110,372-square-foot office property in Bellevue. The purchase price was not disclosed. The space is located at NE 2nd Ave., between 106th and 107th avenues. It was built in 1995. Notable tenants include 24 Hour Fitness, Opus Bank and TIAA-CREF. Eastdil Secured represented both the buyer and the seller, LaSalle Investment Management, in this transaction.
SEATTLE – A three-building portfolio of light manufacturing, flex and distribution space has sold to Industrial Property Trust Inc. for $11.2 million. The portfolio contains a total of 138,296 square feet throughout the Seattle/Puget Sound region. It includes buildings I, III and V in the West Valley Distribution Center, located at 72nd Ave. South. Buildings I and V are fully leased. West Valley III is a vacant flex facility. The seller, a partnership between ScanlanKemperBard Companies and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, was represented by HFF’s Nicholas Kucha and James Childress. The transaction was co-brokered by Wilma Warshak of Washington Real Estate Advisors.