MONTCLAIR, N.J. — A partnership between The Hampshire Cos. and The Pinnacle Cos. has opened The Clair, a 40-unit community located at 37 Orange Road in the New York City suburb of Montclair, which is 20 miles northwest of lower Manhattan. The asset is located adjacent to the 159-room MC Hotel, which The Hampshire Cos. and The Pinnacle Cos. completed in 2019. The Clair offers studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. Amenities include valet parking, package service, community Wi-Fi, EV charging stations, a clubhouse and business center, courtyard with grills, roof …
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 …
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $44 million in financing for The Delford, a 160-unit community in the New York City suburb of Rochelle Park. JLL represented the borrower, Tulfra Real Estate, to secure the five-year, fixed-rate loan through Nuveen Real Estate. Michael Klein, Jon Mikula and Ryan Carroll led the JLL Capital Markets Debt Advisory team. Situated at 120 W. Passaic St., The Delford offers one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. The unit mix includes 136 market-rate units and 24 affordable units. Income restrictions for the …
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.
LITTLE FERRY, N.J. — SCALE Lending, the debt financing arm of Slate Property Group, has provided a $75 million bridge loan for a 294-unit project that is nearing completion in the New York City suburb of Little Ferry. Located at 110 Bergen Turnpike, the asset is expected to receive its temporary certificate of occupancy during the current quarter. The property will also feature 8,356 square feet of retail space. The borrower was New Jersey-based developer Capodagli Property Co. The loan features an 18-month term with two six-month extension options. The financing …
UNION CITY, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI) has arranged the sale of Four Eleven Apartments, a 17-unit community in Union City. The five-story building is located at 411 15th St. and totals approximately 13,400 square feet. The unit mix includes 13 one-bedroom and four two-bedroom units. Spat LLC sold the property to a local private investor for $2.1 million. Devin Perez, Jed Matricaria, Daniel Aviles, Brent Hyldahl and Alan Cafiero of Marcus & Millichap’s New Jersey office marketed the asset on behalf of the seller.
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 …
WASHINGTON, D.C. AND MCLEAN, VA. — Mortgage financing firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to impose stricter rules for commercial property lenders and brokers, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The new guidelines are part of an emerging regulatory crackdown on fraud. Federal prosecutors and investigators have been increasingly pursuing fraudulent mortgage schemes since 2022. The rules may come into effect later this summer. Under the new rules, lenders would have to “independently verify” the financial information of potential borrowers and verify their source of funds …
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 …