SEATTLE — Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. has arranged $65.2 million in first-mortgage financing for a pair of Hyatt House properties situated in the Pacific Northwest. The transaction includes the 149-room Hyatt House Seattle/Redmond and the 160-room Hyatt House Seattle/Bellevue. The non-recourse, 10-year fixed rate financing was priced in the low 4 percent range with interest-only payments for the first five years. The loans were not cross-collateralized. A life insurance company provided the capital.
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SAN DIEGO — NorthMarq Capital has arranged an $11 million bridge loan for the refinancing of an office project in San Diego. The non-recourse loan includes a future funding provision that provides the borrower with capital to complete renovations to the property, according to Steve Hollister of NorthMarq Capital’s San Diego office. Hollister arranged the three-year, interest-only financing, along with Aaron Beck.
LOS ANGELES — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $22.1 million refinancing for The Meadows, a 690-unit apartment complex in the Los Angeles submarket of Culver City. The community is located at 6100-6500 Green Valley Circle. The loan features a 10-year term with three years of interest-only payments followed by a 30-year amortization schedule. Jeffrey Weidell, Nathan Prouty and Andrew Slaton of NorthMarq Capital’s San Francisco office arranged the financing through the firm’s correspondent relationship with a life insurance company.
KATY, TEXAS — PCCP has provided a $20 million senior loan for the acquisition and lease-up of the Haven at Westgreen, a newly constructed, 225-unit Class A multifamily project located in Katy. The new ownership is a joint venture between Dallas-based CAF Capital Partners, the Rainier Cos. and Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Management. Guefen Development Co., a Houston-based multifamily developer that built the property, was the seller. Cortney Cole of HFF’s Houston office arranged the financing. The garden-style, low-density property is situated on 6.6 acres and includes one- and two-bedroom unit floorplans. Amenities include a swimming pool, fitness center, barbecue area and clubhouse.
DALLAS — Ready Capital Structured Finance has secured a $3.8 million value-add loan in Dallas. The unnamed borrower will use the loan to renovate and stabilize a three-story, garden-style multifamily complex totaling 98 units, located in the North White Rock submarket of Dallas. The loan features a two-year term with a one-year extension. Ready Capital Structured Finance originates, manages and finances non-recourse floating and fixed-rate loans of up to five years on transitional, value-add and event-driven commercial and multifamily real estate opportunities.
MUKILTEO, WASH. — CBRE National Senior Housing has arranged a $22.1 million loan for Capitol Seniors Housing, which will use the money to acquire and renovate Harbour Pointe Retirement & Assisted Living Community, a 107-unit independent living and assisted living community in the Seattle suburb of Mukilteo. Capitol, a Washington, D.C.-based owner and developer, plans to use $1 million of the loan to convert 31 assisted living units into a memory care wing for the 104,523-square-food community, among other improvements. The non-recourse, floating-rate loan includes a five-year term with 36 months of interest-only payments. A national bank is providing the capital. Capitol will lease the property to Milestone Retirement Communities, a Vancouver, Wash.-based operator of 30 communities in 10 states. Aron Will, executive vice president, led the CBRE team in the transaction.
HOUSTON — Adam Lipkin of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Miami team has secured a $6.2 million bridge loan for a Houston-area office building. A sovereign wealth fund operated by the Republic of Nauru owns the property. A direct small-balance commercial real estate lender provided the two-year loan to the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, a subsidiary of Nauru Realty Trust. With just under 10,000 inhabitants, Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation. Its government developed the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust to invest proceeds from a state-owned mining company. The loan facilitated by Lipkin provides a short-term financing solution for the Houston office building, which is occupied by Jacobs Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded NASA contractor Jacobs Engineering Group. Jacobs provides technical, professional and construction services to various industrial, commercial and governmental clients. The Jacobs office building is located at 2224 Bay Area Blvd. at the hard corner of Bay Area Boulevard and Space Center Boulevard in the Clear Lake area of Houston.
ELK GROVE, CALIF. — NorthMarq Capital has arranged a $4.2 million refinancing for Laguna Palms, a retail property located at 9105 Bruceville Road in Elk Grove. The 15-year loan features a 25-year amortization schedule. Tenants at the 23,869-square-foot property include U.S. Post Office and Goodwill. Blake Melstrom of NorthMarq Capital’s Los Angeles office secured the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
DENVER — HFF has arranged $23.7 million in financing for Market Center, a mixed-use office and retail property totaling 120,736 square feet in downtown Denver. Leon McBroom and Eric Tupler of HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Urban Renaissance Group, Stars Investments and City Street Investors, to secure the floating-rate financing through First National Denver. The 36-month loan has two 12-month extension options and was used to acquire the asset.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Provides $97M Credit Facility to Refinance Multifamily Portfolio in Arizona
by Nellie Day
PHOENIX — BH Properties has received a $97 million credit facility to refinance a multifamily portfolio in the Phoenix area. The portfolio contains 12 properties and about 3,000 apartment units. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch credit facility replaces multiple existing loans with various lenders. The properties average a 93 percent occupancy rate.