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Avanath, BRIDGE Form Affordable Housing Property Management Company

by Lynn Peisner

SAN FRANCISCO AND IRVINE, CALIF. — BRIDGE Housing and Avanath Communities have jointly formed an affordable and workforce housing property management company called Brighthaven Communities. Initially, Brighthaven will provide property management services to the two organizations’ combined portfolio of properties, which totals approximately 30,000 affordable homes across 15 states. The new company plans to extend its services beyond the partners’ own properties to include other nonprofit and for-profit owners of affordable and workforce housing communities. Brighthaven will be governed by a six-member board with equal representation from both organizations. Avanath …

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Cushman & Wakefield Hires Roberto Pesant to South Florida Team

by Lynn Peisner

MIAMI — Cushman & Wakefield has hired Roberto Pesant as executive managing director. Pesant will focus on institutional multifamily investment sales and multifamily land transactions in South Florida. Pesant has more than 20 years of experience in Florida commercial real estate, most recently as senior managing director with Berkadia. Pesant joins Cushman & Wakefield’s existing Florida multifamily team led by Vice Chairs Nick Meoli and Mike Donaldson.

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Toll Brothers Exits Apartment Business With $347 Million Sale to Kennedy Wilson

by Lynn Peisner

FORT WASHINGTON, PA. — Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) has agreed to sell its portfolio of stabilized and in-development apartment and student housing properties to Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) for $347 million. The transaction is expected to close in October. As part of the transaction, Kennedy Wilson will acquire Toll Brothers’ general partner interests in 18 apartment and student housing properties with a combined total asset value of $2.2 billion. Kennedy Wilson also will acquire a pipeline of 29 sites in various stages of development which, if completed, would total approximately …

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Manulife, TruAmerica Team Up for $1 Billion Affordable Housing Venture

by Lynn Peisner

LOS ANGELES — Manulife Investment Management and TruAmerica Multifamily have forged a $1 billion, affordable housing-focused joint venture known as Anchor Point Residential. The partners’ debut investment is the acquisition of a 51-property, 6,000-unit LIHTC portfolio constructed between 2003 and 2023. The properties are located across major metro areas in California, Texas and Washington. The first portion of the investment closed in August with remaining deals to be completed through the fall. The names of the sellers were not disclosed. According to the two companies, the size of this acquisition, …

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Berkadia Forms New Strategic Capital Group

by Lynn Peisner

NEW YORK CITY — Berkadia has hired Gordon Reynolds and Brian Myers, both with the title of senior managing director, and Vice President Conner Adkins. The three new hires will establish the Berkadia Strategic Capital Group, an international advisory team that will serve clients across multiple asset classes. The group will focus on asset-level equity financing and recapitalizations, portfolio-level equity financing and recapitalizations, and programmatic joint ventures. Reynolds, Myers and Conner will collaborate with Jeffries, a New York-based investment banking and capital markets firm, and Knight Frank, a property consultancy …

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Eastham Capital Hires Anthony Librot as CFO

by Lynn Peisner

BOCA RATON, FLA. — Eastham Capital has hired Anthony Librot as chief financial officer. In the new role, Librot will be responsible for accounting, compliance and risk management for the private equity multifamily investment firm. With more than 30 years of accounting and financial experience, Librot spent the past seven years as the chief operating and financial officer at AAM 15 Management LLC, a Massachusetts real estate investment company, where he oversaw day-to-day operating and financial activities for a real estate portfolio of $500 million.

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NewPoint Announces Personnel Changes

by Lynn Peisner

NEW YORK CITY — NewPoint Real Estate Capital has promoted Geraldine Borger Urgo to president of agency lending. Borger Urgo, who was a leader in NewPoint’s acquisition by Franklin BSP Realty Trust earlier this year, previously spent about 15 years at Freddie Mac and was most recently NewPoint’s head of originations for the past four years. Separately, Nick Gesue will depart his role as chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1. His position was transitioned as part of consolidating leadership following the acquisition. NewPoint leadership will remain under the existing executive …

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Morgan Properties Agrees to Acquire Dream Residential REIT in $354 Million Deal

by Lynn Peisner

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. AND TORONTO — An affiliate of Morgan Properties LP, an investment firm based in metro Philadelphia, has entered into an agreement to acquire Toronto-based Dream Residential Real Estate Investment Trust (Dream Residential REIT). The all-cash transaction is valued at $354 million and is expected to close by the end of the year. Dream Residential REIT s an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust established and governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario. It owns 15 garden-style communities totaling more than 3,300 units located primarily in three …

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Franklin Street opens Dallas Office, Appoints Chibuzor Nnaji to Lead Multifamily 

by Lynn Peisner

DALLAS — Franklin Street, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate firm whose services include investment sales and property management, has opened an office in Dallas and hired Chibuzor Nnaji as a managing director to lead a multifamily investment sales team. Prior to joining Franklin Street, Nnaji served as senior managing director at Global Real Estate Advisors (GREA). Dallas is Franklin Street’s 11th office. In May of this year, the firm opened its Nashville office, and in late 2024, it opened an office in Cincinnati, where the company’s student housing team is …

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Elme Communities Agrees to Sell Portfolio to Cortland for $1.6 Billion as Part of Liquidation Plan

by Lynn Peisner

BETHESDA, MD. AND ATLANTA — Elme Communities (NYSE: ELME), a Maryland-based multifamily owner-operator that previously operated as WashREIT, has entered into a purchase and sale agreement with an affiliate of Cortland Partners, an Atlanta-based multifamily investment and management firm. Under the terms of the transaction, Elme would sell 19 apartment communities to Cortland for $1.6 billion in an all-cash deal. “We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Cortland that recognizes the greater value of these 19 Elme communities and their long-term potential when coupled with Cortland’s economies of …

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