Multifamily

Alley24-Seattle-WA

SEATTLE — The Jacobson Co. has completed the sale of Alley24, an apartment community located at 241 Yale Ave. in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. An undisclosed buyer acquired the property for $90 million. Built in 2006 and remodeled in 2014, Alley24 features 172 apartments in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom layouts with an average unit size of 722 square feet. Community amenities include a 24-hour gym, resident lounge with catering kitchen, media room, rooftop deck with city skyline views and ground-floor retail space. Eli Hanacek, Jon Hallgrimson, Mark Washington and Kyle Yamamoto of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.

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CraftGilbertBaseline-Mesa-AZ

MESA, ARIZ. — NextGen Apartments has completed the disposition of Craft @ Gilbert & Baseline, a multifamily community in Mesa. An undisclosed buyer acquired the asset for $45 million, or $432,692 per unit. Completed in 2019, Craft @ Gilbert & Baseline features 104 apartments in a mix of one- and two-bedroom open-concept layouts that average 1,018 square feet. Units feature full-size washers/dryers, smart home features and garage access. Community amenities include a resort-style swimming pool, outdoor yoga space, grilling stations and a firepit. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.

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WESTMINSTER, COLO. — NewPoint Real Estate Capital has provided a $69 million HUD 223(f) loan on behalf of Ascent Westminster LLC to refinance Ascent, a mixed-use community in Westminster. Built in 2019, Ascent features 25,625 square feet of retail space and 255 apartments, with 10 percent of the units designated affordable at 80 percent of area median income. The five-story, elevator-served building features studio, one- and two-bedroom units, a swimming pool, fitness center, sports simulator, fire pits, barbecue grills and a club room. Additionally, the property features 12 townhome-style units with attached two-car garages. John Motzel of NewPoint originated the loan. The borrower used the loan to pay off a two-year, lease-up bridge loan provided by Barings, a subsidiary of MassMutual. Kyle Morgue of The Carlton Group served as broker on the transaction.

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MIAMI — Avanti Residential has acquired Soleste Grand Central, a 360-unit luxury apartment complex in downtown Miami, for $181 million. The seller was The Estate Cos., which developed the property in 2021. Located at 218 NW 8th St., Soleste Grand Central is walkable to various retail and dining options and features immediate access to I-95. Floor plans range from studios to three-bedroom units. Amenities include a fourth-floor pool, fitness center, yoga and spin studios, salon, dog park, clubroom, café, gaming lounge and a business center with individual coworking spaces and a conference room. The acquisition marks Avanti’s fourth South Florida investment in the past year, following purchases in Boynton Beach, Doral and St. Petersburg. Avanti has now invested nearly $500 million in Florida and continues to actively seek Class A apartments in the state and other key markets nationwide. “We continue to see strong fundamentals in several South Florida multifamily markets, where employment growth and migratory trends remain impactful demand generators in an already supply-constrained apartment sector,” says Christian Garner, president and CEO of Avanti. Walker & Dunlop’s South Florida investment sales team, led by Still Hunter, brokered the sale. Headquartered in Denver, Avanti is an investor and owner-operator of …

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Embree-Eastside

After seeing its population grow by 97,000 between July 2020 and 2021, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex is now home to nearly 8 million people, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. And it’s getting increasingly harder to adequately and affordably house the growing population.   The problem isn’t new, just exacerbated, and it’s hardly unique to DFW. But when a market experiences the rate of population growth that the metroplex has over the last decade, the question of how much housing inventory exists that’s financially feasible for the average resident to rent or own gets thrust under the microscope.  Of course, there’s a major difference between housing that’s affordable and affordable housing. The former is something of an arbitrary concept, whereas the latter carries a precise legal and regulatory definition. But the socioeconomic issue embodied within the two is largely the same.  General Barriers A recent report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition ranked Texas — once heralded as the land of infinite land — as the sixth-worst state in terms of availability of rental housing for low-income households. This finding runs counter to Texas’ longstanding reputation as a state with an affordable cost of living, but …

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MIAMI — Walker & Dunlop has negotiated the $92 million sale of First Apartments, a luxury mid-rise multifamily community located in Miami’s East Little Havana neighborhood. Still Hunter and Kaya Suarez of Walker & Dunlop represented the buyer, Lloyd Jones, in the transaction. The seller, Premium Development, delivered First Apartments in September 2021. The community was Premium’s first project in the United States. Amenities include fitness facilities, a resort-style lap pool, business center, bike storage, an outdoor courtyard and a large dog park. Units range from studios to four-bedroom apartments and span from 578 to 1,790 square feet, according to Apartments.com.

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MorningStar-Hillsboro-OR

HILLSBORO, ORE. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged $33.1 million in financing for MorningStar of Hillsboro. The borrower is a joint venture between Artemis Real Estate Partners, MorningStar Senior Living and American Capital Group. Situated on a 1.35-acre parcel, the community comprises 142 independent living units. The property recently opened its doors. The operator is MorningStar. The property is less than a mile north of Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center, a 126-bed hospital that serves the greater Hillsboro and Beaverton suburbs. Additionally, half a mile north of the community is The Streets of Tanasbourne, a 386,000-square-foot outdoor shopping mall with over 55 retail and restaurant options. Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root arranged the nonrecourse, floating-rate loan with full-term interest-only payments. A national bank provided the capital.

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Villa-Andora-Seattle-WA

SEATTLE — Colliers has brokered the sale of Villa Andora, a multifamily building located at 1520 California Ave. SW in the North Admiral neighborhood of West Seattle. The property traded for $13.6 million. The names of the buyer and seller were not released. Tim McKay, Dan Chhan, Sam Wayne and Matt Kemper of Colliers represented the seller, while Adam Groberman of Colliers represented the buyer in the deal. Totaling 30,029 square feet, Villa Andora features 37 apartments, all of which have undergone interior renovations and feature new kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, windows, appliances, fixtures and finishes.

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NORMAN, OKLA. — CBRE has arranged the sale of 2900 Apartments, a 556-bed student housing community located near the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Built in 1999, the property offers 156 units and is situated adjacent to the university’s golf course. Jaclyn Fitts, William Vonderfecht, Casey Schaefer and Matt Bukhshtaber of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the disposition of the property to Hamilton Point Investments. The sales price was also not disclosed.

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East-Foster-Crossing-Anna

ANNA, TEXAS — Palladium USA, a locally based affordable housing developer, has broken ground on East Foster Crossing, a $64 million mixed-income residential community in Anna, located north of Dallas in Collin County. East Foster Crossing will feature 239 units in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, conference center, a children’s playroom, dog park and a clubroom. HEDK Architects is designing the project, and BBL Construction is the general contractor. Preleasing will begin next summer. Information on specific income restrictions was not disclosed.

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