ELK GROVE, CALIF. — Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG) has acquired Mosa Apartment Homes, a 387-unit affordable housing community in Elk Grove, 14 miles south of Sacramento, for $83.6 million. Completed in 2025, Mosa is a 14-building, garden-style community offering a mix of unit types serving a broad range of household income levels. The property is structured across three Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) partnerships, each subject to its own regulatory agreement, that cover 100 percent of units, with HVPG acquiring the general partner interests in all three. Approximately 8 …
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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 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 develop 76 …
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 …
Merchants Capital Provides $99M for General Electric Adaptive Reuse Project in Fort Wayne, Indiana
FORT WAYNE, IND. — Merchants Capital has secured a Freddie Mac loan and provided equity totaling approximately $99 million for The Elex, a 296-unit mixed-use, mixed-income community now leasing in Fort Wayne. The Elex is part of Electric Works, the multiphase redevelopment of Fort Wayne’s former General Electric industrial campus. The 296-unit residential phase opened in April. The Elex was developed by Biggs Group in partnership with Ancora, the master developer of Electric Works; Weigand Construction; the project’s construction partner; and MSquared, a development partner focused on mixed-income and affordable …
Dinerstein Cos. Buys Three Communities in Colorado and Texas, Plans $18.7M in Improvements
HOUSTON — The Dinerstein Cos. (TDC) has completed three acquisitions consisting of two multifamily properties and one student housing property. The Houston-based firm has acquired the 218-unit Aspire Cherry Creek in Denver, the 325-unit Aspire Park Lane in Dallas and Sterling College Station, a 1,128-bed student housing community in College Station, Texas. TDC is planning $18.7 million in capital improvements across the three assets. TDC has developed properties in Denver, but Aspire Cherry Creek marks the firm’s first acquisition in the market. The asset was built in 2015 and includes …
13th Floor Secures $47M Construction Loan, Breaks Ground on Phase I of 250-Acre Mixed-Use Project in Greenville, South Carolina
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Miami-based developer 13th Floor Investments has secured a $47 million construction loan from CIBC and broken ground on the 222-unit Venture on the Trail in Greenville. The project, located at 301 Alston St., marks the first phase of 13th Floor’s On the Trail mixed-use development, which covers 250 acres along Greenville’s Swamp Rabbit Trail, a 28-mile multi-use greenway. Completion of Venture on the Trail is slated for 2027. Apartments will range from studios to three-bedroom units measuring between 600 and 1,350 square feet. Amenities will include a …
SAN ANTONIO AND JERSEY CITY, N.J. — An investor group led by Affinius Capital has completed its acquisition of Veris Residential (NYSE: VRE). The acquisition was announced earlier this year and is now complete. Veris, a San Antonio-based publicly traded REIT, was removed May 27 from the New York Stock Exchange. Affinius and its partners, including Vista Hill Partners, have acquired all outstanding shares of common stock of Veris in an all-cash transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately $3.5 billion. Veris shareholders will receive $19 for each share owned. …
SARASOTA, FLA. — Developer Allen Morris Co. has secured a $43 million construction loan to develop Bayside North, the second phase of the $250 million Bayside project in Sarasota. Affinius Capital and Axonic Capital provided the financing. Bayside North will include a seven-story, 96-unit building with one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Fifteen units are classified as workforce housing. Rent restrictions were not disclosed. The property will feature a top-floor clubhouse with views of Sarasota Bay. Ground-floor amenities include a pickleball court and a 3,000-square-foot restaurant. The broader Bayside community …
CHICAGO and ARLINGTON, VA. — Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) and AvalonBay Communities (NYSE: AVB) have agreed to merge, creating the largest publicly traded apartment REIT in the United States with a combined portfolio of more than 180,000 rental apartments. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2026, at which time the company’s new name and stock symbol will be announced. Based on the National Multifamily Housing Council’s 2026 Top 50 Owners rankings, the owned portfolio of the newly combined AvalonBay and Equity Residential entity will exceed …
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Asset Living has assumed management of a 17-property portfolio owned by The Paskin Group. Thirteen of the 17 communities are in Texas and transitioned to Asset Living’s managed portfolio on May 13. The remaining properties are in Colorado. Asset Living will assume management of those communities in August. The Paskin Group is a Santa Barbara, California-based real estate investment company focused on acquiring value-add multifamily properties. Asset Living was ranked second in the National Multifamily Housing Council’s 2026 Top 25 with 288,665 units under management. The Houston-based …