Archive for ‘Trades’

February 23, 2012

Multi-Family Wire

MIDLAND, Texas — Pivotal Group bought 21 apartment communities located in Midland, Odessa and Longview, Texas totaling over 3,200 units. Francis Najafi, founder of Pivotal Group, announced the acquisition on behalf of a joint venture between an institutional investor and Pivotal Group. Justin Lanne and Sandy Alter of Grubb and Ellis represented the sellers, TRA Midland Properties, LLC, in this off-market transaction. Arrangements for assumption of the existing Fannie Mae debt were made by Arbor Commercial Mortgage.

AUSTIN, Texas – Hendricks & Partners announced the sale of Silvervale Crossing – Brookstone, an 840-unit development located at 8800-8900 North Interstate 35 in Austin. The Buyer was GE Capital Realty, Inc. ofAddison,Texas. The Seller was FPA Multifamily LLC, aCalifornialimited liability company, ofSan Francisco. The property includes the 336-unit Silvervale Crossing, built in 1981, and the 504-unit Brookstone, constructed in 1985. The complex consists of 200 studio, 456 one-bedroom and 184 two-bedroom units. The transaction was negotiated by George Deuillet III of the Austin office of Hendricks & Partners and Ellen Muskin of Muskin Commercial, on behalf of the seller.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Pathfinder Partners LLC – a San Diego-based firm which invests in distressed real estate assets and defaulted loans – announced it recently closed on two multi-family transactions in the greaterSeattleandPhoenixmarkets. The acquisitions included the $9.5 million, 29-unit Chelsea Courte II inKirkland,Wash.and the purchase, from a receiver, of the 21-unit Shorewood Apartment complex inPhoenix.  Chelsea Courte II is located 15 miles north ofSeattleand consists of two-bedroom, two-bath condominiums. The Shorewood Apartments, located just north of downtown Phoenix near a light rail station, includes seven one-bedroom, one-bath units and 14 two-bedroom, two-bath units.

CHICAGO – HFF announced it has closed the sale of Aspen Place Apartments, a 416-unit multi-housing community in Aurora, Ill. HFF marketed the property on behalf of Kensington Realty Advisors. A unit of Friedkin Realty Group of San Francisco purchased the property. Aspen Place Apartments is located at 826 Terrace Lake Drivein the western Chicago suburb ofAurora. The 96 percent leased property has 50 residential buildings with one- and two-bedroom apartment homes and townhome units averaging 1,061 square feet each. The HFF investment sales team representing Kensington Realty Advisors was led by Managing Director Marty O’Connell, Executive Managing Director Matthew Lawton and Managing Director Sean Fogarty.

KIRKLAND, Wash. – HFF announced it has arranged a $31.85 million construction loan for the development of the 196-unit Juanita Village multi-housing community in Kirkland, Wash. HFF worked on behalf of M-M Properties and BayNorth to secure the three-year construction loan through Bank of the Ozarks. The property is located at 11801 97th St. inKirkland, a suburb of Seattle. Due for completion in 2013, Juanita Village will also feature 8,700 square feet of ground-floor retail. The HFF team representing the borrowers was led by Senior Managing Director John Brownlee and Managing Director Tom Wilson.

TEMPE, Ariz. – CBRE has negotiated the sale of San Portella Apartments, a 308-unit  community located at 2155 S. 55th St. inTempe. Tyler Anderson, Sean Cunningham and Asher Gunter of CBRE’sPhoenix office represented the seller, Apartments at Fountainhead LLC of Des Moines, Iowa, in negotiating the $45.1 million sale.  The buyer is Private Portfolio Group LLC of Seattle, Wash., managed by Pillar Communities, a wholly owned company of the buyer. Developed by Mark Taylor and Principal Real Estate Investors in 2008, San Portella is located on Broadway Road east of Interstate 10. It was 95 percent occupied at time of sale.

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February 14, 2012

Office Building Sold Near Houston’s Galleria

HOUSTON – Miami-based Parmenter Realty Partners purchased 2200 West Loop South, a 201,720-square-foot, Class A office building near Houston’s Galleria.

The 2200 West Loop South building is located adjacent to the Intercontinental Hotel on the west side of Loop 610 between San Felipe and Westheimer Road.  The property was extensively renovated in 2000 and is 87 percent leased to tenants including Morgan Stanley and Tenaris.

HFF’s investment sales team, led by led by senior managing director Dan Miller and director Marty Hogan, marketed the property on behalf of the seller, KBS Real Estate Investment Trust.

KBS Realty Advisors, an SEC-registered investment advisor, and its affiliate, KBS Capital Advisors, KBS REITS’s external advisor, are one of the nation’s largest buyers of commercial real estate and structured debt investments on behalf of institutional investors and the public REITS they advise, having consummated more than $16.5 billion in transactional volume.

Parmenter Realty Partners is an institutional, privately-held real estate investment, management and development company.  Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Parmenter Realty Partners is actively involved in acquiring, repositioning, and managing real estate assets in major markets throughout the Southeast and Southwest United States on behalf of the firm’s principals and investors.  Parmenter Realty Partners has real estate professionals located in Miami, Atlanta and Dallas.

January 31, 2012

Hines/J.P. Morgan Joint Venture Buys Plano Office Building and Development Site

DALLAS — Hines –  in a new joint venture with institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets, the acquisition of The Plaza at Legacy.  Formerly known as Computer Associates, the seven-story, 215,499-square-foot office building is located in the LegacyBusinessPark, in the Far North Dallas submarket of Plano, Texas. 

A future development site,   an adjacent 12-acre corner land parcel along Legacy Drive was part of the purchase. Hines Dallas Vice President Ran Holman said the parcel can accommodate a 300,000 sf office development.

Computer Associates (aka “CA Technologies”) recently reconfigured their space and renewed for an additional 10-year term to now occupy approximately 43 percent of the leased space (77,000 square feet, with an expansion right for approximately 16,000 square feet), leaving  approximately 120,000 square feet available for  immediate multi-tenant use.

As a result of CA Technologies’ reconfiguration, the venture plans to reposition the building from single-tenant to multi-tenant office use.  Plans include:  reconfiguring and upgrading the lobby; adding a new deli/sundry shop; adding a fitness and conference center; and upgrading common areas finishes on each floor.  U.S. Bank is providing the financing for the retrofit.

“U.S. Bank is proud to support Hines & J.P. Morgan by providing a creative financing solution that allows the partnership to take advantage of the growing opportunity in theDallasmarket,” said U.S. Bank Dallas Senior Vice President Greg Kaye. “This kind of transaction is right in our sweet spot and is representative of U.S. Bank’s continued commitment to commercial real estate businesses throughout the Texas market and across the nation.” 

Renovations will be complete by year end, and Hines is actively co-marketing the remaining space exclusively with Cassidy Turley.  

Jones Lang LaSalle’s Houston Real Estate Investment Banking team acted as Hines exclusive advisor in arranging both the joint venture equity and the debt.   

The office building was developed in 2001 by Hines as a build-to-suit for Computer Associates.  In 2004, Hines sold the asset to ING-Clarion, and continued to manage the property until 2006.

January 23, 2012

Miami Group Buys 800,000-sf Brookhollow Office Complex in Houston

HOUSTON -  Parmenter Realty Partners has acquired Brookhollow Central, a three-building office complex totaling 800,000 square feet, on the northwest part of Loop 610 in Houston, according to a report by Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle.

The seller was  TPG CalSTRS, a joint venture of Thomas Properties Group and the California State Teachers Retirement System.

Miami-based Parmenter also owns the Woodland Park Plaza building in the Westchase area of Houston.

Brookhollow is a value-add acquisition. The 11-story Brookhollow Central I building, formerly home to the Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD), is 100 percent vacant.

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