NORTH PORT, FLA. — McDowell Housing Partners has begun construction of the second phase of Ekos at Arbor Park, an affordable housing community in North Port, about midway between Sarasota and Fort Myers. Phase I was reserved for seniors, while the second phase, which will include 66 units, will be reserved for families earning at or below 70 percent of the area median income. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of 2026. Phase I was completed in May of this year. Ekos at Arbor Park Phase II will include …
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SAN DIEGO — Sunroad Enterprises has sold a 15-property portfolio to Fairfield for $1.1 billion. Both firms are based in San Diego. The portfolio includes properties in six states: six in Arizona, one in Nevada, three in Colorado, two in North Carolina, two in South Carolina and one in Georgia. The deal took six years to put together. JLL, representing Sunroad, arranged the sale as well as a $415 million Freddie Mac loan for 10 of the assets and an additional $250 million in fixed-rate senior debt provided by KKR. …
ATLANTA — RangeWater Real Estate along with equity partner ParkProperty Capital have sold The Vivian in Atlanta to JW Capital Corp for an undisclosed amount. Cushman & Wakefield’s Robert Stickel and Alex Brown arranged the transaction. The 325-unit asset is located along the Beltline — a 22-mile loop of trails built on former rail corridors — in Capitol View, a neighborhood in southwest Atlanta. It opened in 2023 and includes amenities such as a pool, dog park and an on-site coffee shop, Black Coffee Westside. The Vivian was RangeWater’s sixth …
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Middlestreet Partners and Singerman Real Estate are developing Atlantic St. Thomas, a 71-unit, build-to-rent project in Daniel Island, a planned community and neighborhood located in Charleston. Middlestreet is a Charleston-based multifamily investment and development company, and Singerman is a Chicago-based real estate investment firm. Construction will begin in early 2026. First move-ins are expected by spring 2027. Middle Street Construction will serve as the development’s general contractor. Other partners include Sitecast as civil engineer, Cissell Design Studio as conceptual designer and land planner, Studioforme as landscape architect …
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — JLL has arranged a $28 million loan, provided by Goldman Sachs, for the development of URBANIA Flagler 1 Ave in Fort Lauderdale. The borrower and developer is Hollywood, Florida-based Continua Developments, a development company that was active in Colombia before doing business in the United States starting in 2021. JLL Capital Market’s Debt Advisory team was led by Max La Cava, Jimmy Calvo and Kenny Cutler. Continua is partnering with SP Developments, a Miami-based residential developer, on the URBANIA project. Construction started earlier this year, and …
FAIRHOPE, ALA. — Birmingham, Alabama-based investment and development firm Oakley Group has acquired Flats at East Bay in Fairhope for $49.8 million. Stoa Group was the seller. Craig Hey of Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale. Oakley has appointed Arlington Properties to manage the asset. The 240-unit community is located at 9376 Twin Beech Road on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay, about 26 miles south of Mobile. Flats at East Bay was completed in 2024 and features 10 three-story buildings with one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such …
Fairstead Buys, Plans Redevelopment of Hampton Roads-Area Affordable Housing Community
CHESAPEAKE, VA. — Fairstead has acquired MacDonald Manor, an affordable housing property in Chesapeake, and will redevelop it using $26 million of rental assistance demonstration (RAD) Section 18 funding. RAD Section 18 is a HUD program designed to preserve and improve affordable housing. The entire acquisition and rehab cost is $55 million. Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Virginia Housing and Hudson Housing Capital are project partners. The redevelopment work will begin this fall and is estimated to be complete in fall 2027. Located at 1331 MacDonald Road, MacDonald Manor is …
ORLANDO, FLA. — CGI+ Real Estate Investment Strategies has sold Park Place in Orlando to RMR Residential. A sales price was not disclosed. CGI acquired the 275-unit asset in 2021 for approximately $69 million. At that time, the seller was facing costly insurance and construction issues following a lightning strike that sparked a fire and destroyed two buildings housing about 15 percent of the community’s rental units and two amenity spaces. CGI refers to these acquisition opportunities as “special situation real estate.” CGI, along with property manager Fogelman, rebuilt 33 …
MIAMI — Developer Housing Trust Group (HTG) and construction firm ANF, both locally based, have topped out the Rhapsody at Rainbow Village project in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The development team broke ground in June, and completion is slated for early 2027. Units will be reserved for income-qualifying residents who earn at or below 30, 50, 60, 70 and 80 percent of the area median income. Monthly rents for the one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments will range from $793 to $2,634. HTG reports Miami median rents range from $1,875 to $9,070 …
BOCA RATON, FLA. — Eastham Capital has hired Anthony Librot as chief financial officer. In the new role, Librot will be responsible for accounting, compliance and risk management for the private equity multifamily investment firm. With more than 30 years of accounting and financial experience, Librot spent the past seven years as the chief operating and financial officer at AAM 15 Management LLC, a Massachusetts real estate investment company, where he oversaw day-to-day operating and financial activities for a real estate portfolio of $500 million.