NEW YORK CITY — Locally based brokerage firm Rosewood Realty Group has negotiated the sale of a 123-unit property located at 275 Park Ave. in Brooklyn. The seven-story building was originally constructed in 1920 and renovated earlier this year. The property also includes five commercial spaces. Aaron Jungreis, Ben Khakshoor and Alex Fuchs of Rosewood Realty Group represented the seller, Fairstead, and procured the buyer, Thor Equities. The sales price was not disclosed. However, the asset traded hands for $325 per square foot.
NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has provided a total of $21.5 million in Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting & Servicing loans to refinancing two communities in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. Greystone provided $11.4 million for The Duke, a 28-unit building located at 521 W. 134th St., and $10.1 million for The Count, a 27-unit asset located at 168 W. 136th St. Each of the non-recourse, fixed-rate loans in the portfolio carries a five-year term and 30-year amortization schedule, with interest-only payments for the first two years of the term. Avi Kozlowski …
NEW YORK CITY — J.P. Morgan has provided a $210 million Freddie Mac loan for the refinancing of a portfolio of 12 transitional and affordable housing properties in New York City. The loan carries a seven-year term and a fixed interest rate. The borrower is a partnership between two locally based firms, developer Slate Property Group and alternative asset management firm Fundamental Advisors. The portfolio totals 1,115 apartment units across approximately 304,000 square feet. The properties are located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. Each property is leased to …
NEW YORK CITY — Property Resources Corp. has begun leasing The Hartby, a 205-unit asset located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The Hartby is a redevelopment of the former St. John’s College building, which was originally built in 1870. Woods Bagot served as the project architect. Alchemy Studio provided interior design services. The Hartby features units in studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Thirty percent of units will be rent-stabilized and are now being leased via a lottery system. Leasing of market-rate units is slated to begin later this …
NEW YORK CITY — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $128 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a nine-property portfolio located in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. The portfolio comprises 171 units across 153,800 square feet, as well as 22 retail spaces. The borrower was RYCO Capital. Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Adam Schwartz and Sean Bastian of Walker & Dunlop arranged the floating-rate loan through Derby Copeland Capital.
NEW YORK CITY — M&T Bank has appointed Lopa Kolluri to the role of Head of Affordable Housing Lending. In this new position, Kolluri will be responsible for the development, oversight and management of the Affordable Housing vertical within M&T’s Commercial Bank. Kolluri will also work closely with divisions of M&T’s Community Bank and M&T Realty Capital Corp.’s Affordable Housing Platform. She will be based in New York City. Kolluri previously served as Senior Vice President within M&T’s Commercial Real Estate Innovation Office. Prior to joining M&T, Kolluri served as the …
NEW YORK CITY — Ofer Cohen of New York City-based brokerage firm TerraCRG, as well as Tucker Reed and Vivian Liao of Brooklyn-based developer Totem Brooklyn, have launched Ailanthus, a platform that aims to create 10,000 apartments in New York City over the next five years. The platform is named after the Ailanthus tree, a common street tree in New York City and a reference to Betty Smith’s 1943 novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” As of May 13, Ailanthus has approximately 1,500 apartments in its pipeline, including a 456-unit mixed-income development at 1057 …
NEW YORK CITY — A joint venture consisting of nonprofit developer Community Access, neighborhood preservation organization Cooper Square Committee and affordable housing developers Spatial Equity and Duvernay + Brooks, has purchased the site of the former St. Emeric church in Manhattan’s East Village. The joint venture plans build more than 500 affordable housing units on the site. Some units will be set aside for seniors and homeless individuals, as well as those with special needs who qualify for supportive services. The development team expects to break ground on the first …
NEW YORK CITY — A partnership between locally based investment firm The Dermot Co. and Dutch pension fund PGGM has acquired 20 Exchange Place, a 57-story high-rise community in Manhattan’s Financial District, in an off-market transaction. The seller was a partnership led by DTH Capital, a New York City-based owner-operator focused on converting office buildings into residential complexes. The property was originally built in 1931 as the headquarters of City Bank Farmers Trust Co., a national bank which later became Citibank. Approximately 20 years ago, the building was converted into …
NEW YORK CITY — Locally based developer BRP Cos. has completed The Monarch, a 605-unit community in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. The project broke ground in January 2021. The building rises 25 stories and spans 542,000 square feet. The Monarch comprises 498 one-bedroom and 107 two-bedroom apartments. Of the total unit count, 182 are reserved for households earning between 80 and 130 percent of the area median income. Units feature individual washers and dryers, stainless steel appliances and floor-to-ceiling windows. The property also includes 14,000 square feet of retail …