RENTON, WASH. — SCS Development Co. has sold Copper Ridge Apartments, a 325-unit community in Renton, roughly 11 miles south of Bellevue, Washington. Timberlane Partners purchased the asset for $70.7 million. Built in 1983 and 1985, Copper Ridge offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment units housed in two- and three-story residential buildings. The average unit size is 788 square feet. All residences have private decks or balconies, and select units also feature wood-burning fireplaces. Amenities include a pool, three laundry facilities and a children’s playground. Giovanni Napoli, Philip Assouad, Ryan Harmon, …
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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Interstate Equities Corp. has purchased Summerwood Apartments, a 468-unit property located at 444 Saratoga Ave. in Santa Clara, roughly 5 miles west of San Jose, California. German investment firm DWS sold the asset for $203 million. The garden-style community offers a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a pool, clubhouse, fitness center, volleyball court, sauna, courtyard and dog park. Philip Saglimbeni, Stanford Jones, Salvatore Saglimbeni and Alexander Tartaglia of Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller and procured …
APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZ. — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has arranged the sale of Hampton Meridian, a build-to-rent community in Apache Junction, 35 miles east of Phoenix. The asset traded hands for $56.5 million. Steve Gebing and Cliff David of IPA represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal. Neither party’s identity was disclosed. Built in 2023, Hampton Meridian consists of 195 residences across 16 acres. The average unit size is 1,009 square feet. Residents have access to amenities such as a pool, …
WESTWOOD AND RIVER VALE, N.J. — Kushner has purchased a portfolio of four properties totaling 276 units in Bergen County, located in the northeastern corner of New Jersey. Jose Cruz, Mike Oliver, Steve Simonelli, Elizabeth DeVesty and Austin Pierce of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller and procured the private buyer. The portfolio includes Coventry Square, Stanford Court and The Madison Apartments, which are all located in Westwood, about 32 miles north of New York City. The fourth community, Village on the Green, is situated in the adjacent town of …
COLUMBUS, OHIO — RM Communities and Crawford Hoying have secured a $30.5 million acquisition loan for Xander on State, a 229-unit community located at 265 East State St. in downtown Columbus’s Discovery District. Brian Gaswirth, Jesse Wright, Joshua Odessky and Shane Ciacci of JLL Capital Markets arranged the loan through ACRE. Built in 2020, Xander on State offers a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom units. Residents have access to amenities including a pool, entertainment area, fitness center and theater room. The property also features 2,681 square feet of ground …
SEATTLE — AvalonBay Communities has completed the sale of AVA Ballard, a 265-unit asset located at 5555 14th Ave. NW in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, to an undisclosed buyer for $105.5 million. Eli Hanacek, Mark Washington and Kyle Yamamoto of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. Built in 2013, AVA Ballard offers studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments averaging 717 square feet. Units feature quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, plank hardwood-style flooring and washers and dryers. Amenities include a rooftop lounge, barbecues and a dog run; clubroom with media …
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Bright Realty has sold Valor at The Realm in Lewisville to Weidner Apartment Homes for an undisclosed price. JLL arranged the sale. Bright Realty developed the 260-unit property in 2021. It includes approximately 35,000 square feet of retail. Residents have access to amenities such as a resort-style pool and yoga studio. Units are available with one or two bedrooms. Valor at the Realm is located within The Realm at Castle Hills, a 324-acre master-planned development in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
The concept of cap rates is an interesting phenomenon when you stop to think about it. Short for “capitalization rate” and calculated as net operating income (NOI) divided by sales price, this all-important real estate metric represents a page borrowed from Wall Street’s playbook, a savvy maneuver by investors to create a vehicle of asset valuation and apply it to select securities on a widespread basis. The circumstances of the metric’s inception are largely unknown, but all that matters is that the real estate industry has successfully propagated the use …
FEDERAL WAY, WASH. — Pathfinder Partners has acquired Cedardale, a 126-unit property in Federal Way, roughly 25 miles south of Seattle. CEP Multifamily sold the asset for $31 million. Giovanni Napoli, Philip Assouad, Ryan Harmon, Nick Ruggiero and Anthony Palladino of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, arranged the transaction. Cedardale was built in 1981 on seven acres. The community offers one- and two-bedroom apartments with washers and dryers, wood-burning fireplaces and private decks or patios. The average unit size is 746 square feet. The property features …
SEATTLE — Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) has purchased a 22-property portfolio comprising 4,768 affordable housing units across the western United States. HVPG acquired the portfolio from Inland Group in a joint venture partnership with Wheelock Street Capital, which provided most of the equity capital out of its Long Term Value Fund. The sales price was not disclosed. Goldman Sachs served as financial advisor to the seller. Newmark brokered the transaction. The portfolio consists of 13 assets in Washington, seven in Colorado, one in California and one in Idaho. All …