ROSELAND, N.J. — RHO Residential has been selected by the new ownership of Veris Residential to manage 15 properties in New Jersey and greater Boston. Veris Residential (NYSE: VRE) was taken private in an acquisition finalized in May. Craig Solomon of Affinius Capital in partnership with Vista Hill Partners, a real estate investment and development group headed by Bradford Klatt and Jonathan Kushner, bought the REIT for $3.5 billion. The assignment nearly doubles RHO Residential’s unit count to just under 12,000 apartments across 40 communities as well as approximately 182,000 …
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Donaldson Impact Investors Buys Yorkshire Apartments in Maryland for $79.4M, Converts to Affordable Housing
SILVER SPRING, MD. — Donaldson Impact Investors, in partnership with New York Life Investment Management and nonprofit developer Housing Initiative Partnership, has acquired Yorkshire Apartments in Silver Spring for $79.4 million. The buyers used a tax-abatement program to transition the community to affordable from market-rate. Half the apartments at the 326-unit community are reserved for tenants earning up to 60 percent of area median income with the remainder of units remaining priced at market rates. The transaction was made possible through Montgomery County’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program, …
NEW YORK CITY — Slate Property Group, a New York-based owner, operator and developer, has closed on an $86.3 million refinancing for Dutch House. Slate Property Group and Avenue Realty Capital developed the 186-unit community at 37-05 30th St. in Long Island City in 2022. The eight-story building features 21,000 feet of ground-floor retail and is fully leased. Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan through Ares Capital Management. The financing retires a PCCP facility previously arranged by the same Walker & Dunlop team in 2023. Residential units at Dutch House …
LONG BRANCH, N.J. — ICON Real Estate Advisors has arranged the $19.4 million sale of The Pavilion, a 46-unit multifamily building at 165 Pavilion Ave., and an adjacent retail property at 231 Third Ave. in Long Branch, 57 miles south of Manhattan. The buyer, Henshaw Realty, acquired the assets as part of a 1031 exchange following the sale of a New York City asset. The seller was Jebara Partners, the original developer. The Pavilion was completed in 2021 and is a five-story building. The retail property is occupied by tenants …
Mega Development Group, Ametrine Group Begin Construction of $147M Mixed-Income Redevelopment in Poughkeepsie, New York
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Mega Development Group and Ametrine Group have broken ground on Wallace Campus, a $147 million redevelopment of a vacant former department store in Poughkeepsie. Developed in partnership with on-site social services provider Mental Health America of Dutchess County, the project will convert the former Wallace Department Store, constructed in the 1870s, into 69 apartments while creating an additional 118 units across two new buildings. Wallace Campus will be affordable to households earning up to 80 percent of area median income. The unit mix is comprised of studios, …
EAST LYME, CONN. — Newmark has arranged a $115.6 million Freddie Mac loan to refinance The Cove at Gateway Commons and Sound at Gateway, two communities less than half a mile apart in East Lyme along Connecticut’s southeastern shore. Newmark’s Avi Kozlowski led the transaction. Sound at Gateway Commons offers garden-style studio- to three-bedroom units, while The Cove at Gateway Commons consists of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and townhomes with attached garages.
NEW YORK CITY — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of 1000 Ocean Parkway, a 122-unit apartment building in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. The property sold for $23.5 million, or $192,623 per unit. Marcus & Millichap’s Matt Fotis represented the seller, the Cohen family, and procured the buyer, David Brecher, chief executive of Brooklyn-based FM Home Loans. The property is located on the corner of Ocean Parkway and Avenue J. Built in 1964 and renovated in 2021, 1000 Ocean Parkway has two elevators, a doorman, laundry facilities and …
Insight Property Groups Starts $174M Apartment Phase of Northern Virginia Office Redevelopment
FAIRFAX, VA. — Locally based Insight Property Group has begun construction of a 452-unit apartment community on the site of the former Hunters Branch office complex in Fairfax, 20 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Hunters Branch site is home to two vacant office towers totaling 400,000 square feet. Insight acquired the site for $28.9 million in a real estate owned (REO) transaction in November 2024. In March of this year, Insight sold a portion of the Hunters Branch property to Toll Brothers for $17 million. Toll Brothers will demolish …
NEW YORK CITY — Haussmann Development has obtained a construction loan for approximately $40.8 million and broken ground on an 84-unit building at 16-20 Convent Ave. in North Manhattan. Affinius Capital provided the construction loan in partnership with Axonic Capital. The building will include ground-floor community space that will serve as the third location of Little Legacy Village, the childcare practice that Haussmann co-founded. Completion of the ground-up Opportunity Zone project is slated for early 2028. The project will include an unspecified number of permanently affordable units. It is being …
NEW YORK CITY — PGIM, the investment management business of Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU), has acquired The Arbor, a 127-unit community in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx for approximately $73.5 million. The transaction marks the 10th acquisition with the PGIM Real Estate Fund. PGIM partnered with Fetner Properties in the deal through a sale and leaseback with the seller, Columbia University. To date, PGIM has deployed $260 million through the fund, representing approximately $632 million in gross property value.