MANITOWOC, MCFARLAND AND MADISON, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 158-unit multifamily portfolio in Wisconsin. The properties include Benley Manor, Central Park West, Woodland Commons and The Trafalgar Apartments. Matthew Whiteside of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and the buyer. Both parties were private investors. Benley Manorf and Central Park West are both located in Manitowoc, a city on Lake Michigan. The properties were built between 1996 and 1998 and offer townhome-style units. Woodland Commons is a community in McFarland that was built between …
CHICAGO — Breneman Capital has purchased Ashland Place, a 47-unit property located at 33 S. Ashland Ave. in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood. The purchase price and seller were not disclosed. Ashland Place was built in 2018 and features two one-bedroom units and 45 two-bedroom units. Breneman Capital assumed a loan on the property that features a 73.5 percent loan-to-value ratio, a fixed interest rate of 4.6 percent and roughly five years of remaining term. Dwelle Properties will manage the asset.
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO. — Intrinsic Development has broken ground on Discovery Park, a $900 million mixed-use project in the southeast Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit. Plans for Discovery Park include 2,791 apartments within a development named Alura, as well as two hotels, office space, medical office buildings and retail space. The 3.9 million-square-foot development will span 268 acres near I-470 and Saint Luke’s East Hospital. Discovery Park will be constructed in four phases from now until 2031. The first phase is The Village, which will include 585 apartment units, …
CHICAGO — Chicago-based Origin Investments forecasts that year-over-year national Class-A apartment rent growth will normalize by January 2025 and range from 2 to 3 percent, in keeping with historical rent growth averages. However, Origin also cautions that “unquantifiable risks” loom large over the market and could have broad implications for multifamily properties. The findings are from the company’s Multilytics Rent Growth Forecast Report. “The return to normalization has been expected because the rent growth levels of 2021 and 2022 were unsustainable. We are now paying for the distortions of the …
MARION, OHIO — United Church Homes, a Marion-based non-profit organization that specializes in developing affordable and mixed-income communities, has secured $11.5 million to refinance four properties in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Lument provided the financing. Lument’s Paul Weissman and Andy Nicoll led the transactions. The four refinanced loans were completed under the FHA Section 223(f) program and closed between May and September. The financing includes: $1.8 million for Pickfair Square, a 33-unit property in Pickerington, Ohio; $4.8 million for Salem Manor, an 84-unit complex in Fort Wayne, Indiana; $2.3 million …
CARMEL, IND. — CREC Real Estate has sold its stake in VER at Proscenium, a 196-unit community located at the intersection of Rangeline Road and West Carmel Drive in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel. CREC Real Estate acquired the stake in 2019, prior to the project’s construction. VER at Proscenium was completed in 2021. The complex comprises four buildings and offers studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Amenities include a fitness center, pool, putting green, multi-sport virtual simulator and club area with a beer tap. The property also includes commercial space, …
CLEVELAND, OHIO — The NRP Group has opened The Davis Apartments, a 52-unit affordable housing in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. Ohio Finance Housing Agency, RiverHills Bank and PNC Bank provided funding for the community’s development. The Davis Apartments was built on the site of the former Harry E. Davis Elementary School, which had been vacant since 2006. The property is named after Harry E. Davis, a Cleveland native who served four consecutive terms in the Ohio State House before becoming the first African American member of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission …
DES PLAINES, ILL. — JVM Realty Corp. has acquired Ellison Apartments, a 113-unit complex in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, for an undisclosed price. John Jaeger of CBRE brokered the deal. The seller was undisclosed. Ellison Apartments was built in 2019 and features a variety of floor plans averaging 894 square feet. Amenities include a spa pool, sundeck, clubroom, business center, fitness center, pet spa, bike room and indoor garage parking.
With the official end of the health emergency in May, it would be natural to assume that multifamily assets are operating in a much-improved environment versus three years ago, when policy responses to the pandemic locked down the economy, curtailed new applications, restricted tours and halted evictions. That’s especially true because once shutdowns loosened, robust renter demand for apartments drove double-digit rent increases in late 2021 and early 2022. But it could be argued that multifamily property managers face as tough an operating environment today as they did in 2020 …
BROWNSTOWN, MICH. — Friedman Real Estate has negotiated the sale of a 180-unit community located at 21901 Stratford Place Blvd. in Brownstown, a southern suburb of Detroit. Four Corners Development Group acquired the asset from an undisclosed seller for $25.7 million. Friedman Real Estate’s Peter Jankowski and Rich Deptula represented both the buyer and seller in the deal.