NEW CASTLE, PA. — Brick, N.J.-based Tryko Partners has acquired Crestview Garden Apartments, located at 1139 Pin Oak Dr. in New Castle, for an undisclosed price. The apartment community features 184 affordable residential units. Tryko plans to immediately invest $1 million in improvements to the property, including common area renovations, a new property-wide security system, and kitchen and bathroom improvements in individual units. CBRE Capital Market’s Philadelphia office arranged financing for the acquisition through TriState Capital Bank. Tryko Partners is a private equity real estate group that specializes in project-based Section 8 Homeowners Assistance Program transaction and property repositionings.
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SEYMOUR, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Maplewood Commons, a 50-unit apartment property located in Seymour. Built in 1970, the garden-style apartment community consists of four detached wood-frame buildings. The buyer plans enhance the property with modest kitchen, bath and hallway upgrades. Blake Barbarisi, Adam Mancinone and Gary Witten of Marcus & Millichap’s New Haven, Conn., office listed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company and secured the buyer, a private investor.
SAN DIEGO – A 12-unit apartment building in the San Diego submarket of La Mesa has sold to Ginsburg Family Trust for $1.9 million. The community is located at 4345 Lowell Street. The trust was represented by Aaron Bove of Marcus & Millichap’s San Diego office. The seller was Wahl Property Group LLC & Wahl Parker LLC.
PEARLAND, TEXAS — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $28.5 million refinancing of The Reserve at Tranquility Lake, a 314-unit apartment complex in Pearland, southeast of Houston. Greg Duvall of NorthMarq arranged financing. The 10-year loan includes a 30-year amortization schedule. NorthMarq arranged financing for the borrower through its seller-servicer relationship with Freddie Mac.
TOPEKA, KAN. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged the $15.8 million refinancing of The Overlook Apartments, a 318-unit multifamily property in Topeka. The apartment community is located at 1310 S.W. Summit Woods Drive. Dan Trebil of NorthMarq Capital’s Minneapolis office arranged financing for the borrower through its seller/servicer relationship with Freddie Mac.
ORANGE TOWNSHIP, OHIO — NexCore Group LLC has broken ground on a 130,000-square-foot, integrated ambulatory care center for Mount Carmel Health System in Lewis Center, an unincorporated community of northwestern Orange Township. The site for MC Fitness & Health is located at 7100 Graphics Way. The three-level center will provide outpatient care, fitness, wellness education and rehabilitation facilities. In addition to housing primary care and specialty physicians with the Mount Carmel Medical Group, the facility will also provide approximately 20,000 rentable square feet of medical office space for independent physicians. Construction on the project is set for completion in October 2015. Denver, Colo.-based NexCore Group is the developer and is the owner of the project. OLC Architecture is providing architectural services. Elford Inc. is the construction manager and NexCore Properties LLC will manage the property.
To say that 2014 has been filled with great excitement for Cleveland would be an understatement. In early July, the Republican National Committee selected Cleveland as the host city for its 2016 convention. That same month, NBA star LeBron James announced his intent to return to his hometown Cavaliers. Beyond those splashy headlines, during the first half of the year several real estate projects were announced. The planned projects combined with those already under construction or completed since 2010 represent $5.5 billion in public and private investment in downtown Cleveland. Apartment Building Boom One of the most significant stories in Cleveland is that the residential boom downtown continues to gain momentum. The overall occupancy rate in the apartment sector within the CBD rose from 94.5 percent in the first quarter of 2014 to just over 98 percent at mid-year, according to a recent study released by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance. As a result, new projects continue to pile up in an effort to meet the ever-increasing demand. In addition to the 1,000-plus rental units currently under construction, there are now more than 1,100 units in various planning stages. Projects announced since the first of the year include The Standard Building …
NEW YORK CITY — Meridian Capital Group has negotiated $18.4 million in refinancing for the residential cooperative portion of Lincoln Towers on West End Avenue in New York City. The 29-story property, which is part of the Lincoln Towers condo, totals 444 units and 32 parking spots. Meridian has arranged financing for six of the eight buildings that are part of the Lincoln Towers complex. The 30-year self-liquidating loan, which was provided by a life insurance company, features a 4.44 percent fixed rate. Steve Geller and Nicoletta Pagnotta of Meridian Capital Group’s New York City’s headquarters brokered the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Rosewood Realty Group has brokered the sale of 1539 Park Place in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. 1539 Park Place LLC purchased the property, which was built in 1910, for $5.1 million. Located between Buffalo and Rochester avenues, the four-story, 34,975-square-foot building features 34 residential units. Aaron Jungreis of Rosewood Realty Group represented the buyer, while David Berger, also of Rosewood Realty, represented the seller, Park 1539 Realty LLC, in the transaction.
DALLAS — The nation’s apartment market continued to gain strength in the third quarter of 2014, according to early release figures from Axiometrics, a Dallas-based apartment market research company. Annualized rent growth reached 4 percent for the first time in almost two years, while quarterly effective rent growth increased over the third quarter of 2013. Occupancy also increased, to 95.1 percent, higher than the 95 percent mark reached last year, which had been the highest since the first quarter of 2001. Landlords Continue Pushing Rents Effective rent growth increased by 1.6 percent over the second quarter of 2014 on a quarter-by-quarter basis, an improvement on the 1.2 percent quarterly growth of the July-September period last year. Each quarter this year has seen improved rent growth from the same quarter last year. “That 1.6 percent growth is great for the summer season,” says Jay Denton, Axiometrics senior vice president. “The quarterly numbers this year show a stronger apartment market than we anticipated at the start of the year.” While effective rent growth for the third quarter was lower than the 2.7 percent rate measured in the second quarter, the decrease between the second (2.7 percent) and third quarters (1.6 percent) is …