CHICAGO — Kiser Group has brokered the sale of a multifamily portfolio in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood for $20 million. The vintage buildings are located at 1412 W. Chase Ave., 6945 N. Ashland Ave., 1310 and 1257 W. Lunt Ave. The properties include studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. Allen Smith of Winnemac Properties bought the four-building, 220-unit portfolio with plans to renovate the units. Luke Lesniewski, Stevens Haen, Michael Feldstein and Lee Kiser of Kiser Group represented the seller, Ansonia Properties.
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EAGAN, MINN. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Lexington Hills in Eagan, 15 miles south of St. Paul. The 168-unit property is located at 4116 Lexington Ave. South. The seven-building community recently underwent a $1.8 million renovation including clubhouse expansion with an outdoor lounge, community room, fitness center and outdoor swimming pool. Abe Appert, Keith Collins, Ted Abramson and Laura Hanneman of CBRE represented the seller, Lexington Hills-Minneapolis LLC, an entity controlled by Bellevue, Wash.-based Curtis Capital Group. The buyer was an affiliate of Miami-based Monument Capital Management.
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — MG Properties has acquired the 330-unit Broadstone Scottsdale Horizon apartment community for $51 million. The community is located at 9259 E. Raintree Drive in Scottsdale. Common areas include a resort-style pool, resident clubhouse, business center and fitness facility. Broadstone Scottsdale Horizon was built in 1986. JLL’s John Cunningham and Charles Steele represented the seller, a joint venture between Rockwood Capital and Alliance Residential Co.
WILMINGTON, N.C. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has arranged $42.5 million in Freddie Mac loans for the refinancing of a four-property multifamily portfolio in Wilmington. The assets total 695 units and include Hawthorne at New Centre, Hawthorne Commons, Hawthorne Centre North and Hawthorne Lofts. All four properties were constructed between 1990 and 1998 and were renovated in 2014. Timothy DeWispelaere of KeyBank arranged the financing with a 10-year term, five years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA. — Caddis has broken ground on Heartis Fayetteville, a 168-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Fayetteville, approximately 20 miles south of Atlanta. The community will comprise three buildings totaling 157,029 square feet that will house 80 independent living units, 56 assisted living apartments and 32 memory care units. This is the first entry into Georgia for Caddis, a healthcare real estate firm based in Dallas, though the company is also planning another Heartis-branded community in nearby Suwanee. Portland, Ore.-based Frontier Management will operate Heartis Fayetteville upon completion, which Caddis expects to be in late 2017. Chicago-based investment firm Singerman Real Estate is a joint venture development partner on the project. The Atlanta office of Choate Construction will be the general contractor.
DENVER — Castle Lanterra has acquired the 369-unit Alexan Sloan’s Lake apartment community in Denver for $102.8 million. The community is located at 1550 Raleigh St. Alexan Sloan’s Lake features 9,000 square feet of first-floor retail. The property is part of a 19-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the former Saint Anthony Hospital campus. The development will eventually contain up to 150,000 square feet of retail and office space. Jeff Hawks, Terrance Hunt, Doug Andrews, Shane Ozment and Chris Cowan of ARA Newmark represented the seller, a joint venture between Trammell Crow Residential and an institutional investor.
SmartStop Asset Management Purchases 709-Bed Community Near the University of Nevada, Reno for $70M
by Nellie Day
RENO, NEV. — SmartStop Asset Management LLC has acquired The Summit, a 709-bed student housing community located near the University of Nevada, Reno campus for $70 million. The seven-building, LEED Silver-certified property offers fully furnished units with washers and dryers. Community amenities include a two-story clubhouse, fitness center, game lounge, pool, spa, computer room and business center, campus shuttle service, common area barbecues, a tanning room and private study rooms. John Strockis, senior vice president of acquisitions for SmartStop Asset Management, facilitated the transaction on behalf of a SmartStop affiliate.
SAN DIEGO — TH Real Estate, a division of TIAA Global Asset Management, has acquired BLVD63, a 1,379-bed student housing community located near San Diego State University. Community amenities include a clubhouse, media room, game room, fitness center and study lounges. The seller was not disclosed.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — CBRE has arranged a $16.7 million loan for Capitol Seniors Housing, which will use the capital to refinance debt on Welbrook Arlington, a seniors housing community in the Los Angeles suburb of Riverside. MBK Senior Living operates the community, which features 207 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Aron Will, vice chairman of CBRE National Senior Housing, arranged the non-recourse, 10-year, floating-rate loan with full-term interest-only payments through the company’s Fannie Mae DUS Multifamily loan origination program.
ATLANTA — The RADCO Cos. has purchased Legends of Dunwoody, a 532-unit, Class B apartment community located in Atlanta, for $60 million. The Atlanta-based multifamily investment firm will invest roughly $8.7 million on capital improvements and rebrand the property Radius Sandy Springs, the second community under RADCO’s Radius brand. RADCO Residential will manage the property, which is the 24th community that RADCO owns in metro Atlanta. RADCO financed the acquisition using a $50.4 million Freddie Mac loan and $21.6 million in private capital. The renovations will include unit interior upgrades, building repairs, a remodeled clubhouse, pool deck expansion, new pool, new dog park additions, exterior lighting upgrades, landscaping and a refurbished tennis court. Built in 1980, Radius Sandy Springs is situated in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter office submarket, home of State Farm’s new East Coast hub and the corporate relocation of Mercedes-Benz USA.