DENVER — Gelt Inc. has purchased a 564-unit apartment community in Denver for $74 million from TruAmerica Multifamily. The community is located at its namesake, 3300 Tamarac Drive.
The complex was built in 1977. It is situated at the intersection of interstates 25 and 225, near the northern border of the Denver South Business Corridor. This submarket is home to seven of the nine Fortune 500 Companies in the state.
This was Gelt’s largest apartment property purchase to date in terms of both the quantity of units and price. It was also its first acquisition in Colorado.
Gelt has acquired a total of 1,192 units this year, valued at more than $140 million. The firm hopes to acquire 2,000 additional units in 2016 within high-growth, infill locations throughout the Western U.S.
CBRE’s Brian Eisendrath and Ross Moore arranged a $55.6 million acquisition loan Gelt. The 10-year, fixed-rate financing features a five years of interest-only payments. Gelt will continue a renovation program in progress at the community, in addition to executing further capital improvements on the units’ interiors and common areas.
This was TruAmerica Multifamily’s first sale. The company acquired the asset in partnership with DVO Real Estate and RCG Longview. It invested about $2.4 billion to amass a portfolio of more than 14,000 units during its first 2.5 years in business.
David Martin and Pamela Koster of Moran & Company represented both the buyer and seller in this transaction.