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Latest Atlanta & Southeast Student Housing Stories
Troutman Pepper has added Anna Altizer Dix to its national real estate practice group as a partner in Atlanta, GA. Dix joins the firm from BakerHostetler. Dix’s practice spans several fields, including commercial acquisitions and dispositions, finance, real estate development and leasing transactions. She represents national developers in assembling, acquiring, developing, and financing mixed-use student …
Newmark has completed the $56-million sale of Campus Crossings, a 252-unit multifamily community in Murfreesboro, TN. The property was 98% occupied at sale. Vincent Lefler and Tarek El Gammal represented the seller, ApexOne Investment Partners, in the sale to Albion Residential. Campus Crossings was constructed in 2006 near industry-leading employers and Middle Tennessee State University. …
Latest Boston & New England Student Housing Stories
CBRE has completed the sale of a new generation, 150-unit student housing community serving the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Sunderland, MA. Athens, GA-based Landmark Properties purchased North 116 Flats from Dallas-based Fountain Residential Partners for an undisclosed price. A CBRE team of Jaclyn Fitts, William Vonderfecht, Casey Schaefer, Biria St. John and Simon Butler …
Cushman & Wakefield’s Multi-Family Advisory Group has been retained to market a Lesley University-owned portfolio of 10 historic buildings located between Harvard Square and Porter Square in Cambridge, MA. Totaling nearly 85,000 square feet, the properties are located at 7, 9, 11, 13 and 17-21 Mellen Street; 6 Sacramento Street; 1627 Massachusetts Avenue; and 815 Somerville …
Latest California Student Housing Stories
Champion Real Estate Company has invested in University of Southern California student housing projects, acquiring a pair of former fraternity houses for $17 million. The properties are located on USC’s Greek Row on 28th Street and Portland Street. “With the rise in university enrollment, Champion is confident in the investment strength of student housing especially …
Champion Real Estate Company has sold The Vines at RiverPark (pictured), a townhouse community in Oxnard, CA and Casa Laguna apartments in Los Angeles for a total of $103 million. The firm says they will use the proceeds to invest in student housing properties in strategic locations throughout the U.S. “With the sale of The …
Latest Chicago & Midwest Student Housing Stories
Andy Finn, SVP in Northmarq’s Minneapolis-based debt/equity office, arranged $41.61 million in financing for The Grove at Mankato. The 524-unit student housing property is located at 200 Briargate Road in Mankato, MN. The transaction was structured on a non-recourse basis with a seven-year term with three years of interest only followed by a 30-year amortization …
Peak Properties assisted in the purchase and oversight of a multi-million-dollar gut rehabilitation of three vintage walkup buildings in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. In the process, the company added another 57 student apartments to its management portfolio The properties are 98% pre-leased and move-ins have begun. The last two units are expected to have applications …
Latest Florida & Gulf Coast Student Housing Stories
JLL has closed the sale of a three-property, 470-unit and 1,152-bed student housing portfolio near Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL. Stewart Hayes, Scott Clifton and Jack Goldberger of JLL represented the seller, FPA Multifamily. Ancient City Capital acquired the asset. The portfolio includes the 168-unit The Hub at Tallahassee, the 168-unit The Social 1600 …
Naples, FL-based Halstatt Real Estate Partners has sold The Legacy at Baton Rouge, a purpose-built student housing complex located near Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. The community features 299 units with 898 bedrooms as well as luxury amenities including a gym, study room and three resort style pools. Halstatt partnered with Landmark Properties …
Latest Global Student Housing Stories
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demands and needs of student housing operators have changed significantly. We caught up with Ed Macey-Macleod, head of Smart Workplace Strategy at People | Technology | Space (PTS) to chat about some of the “smart tech” coming to campuses across the nation. Q. College student living needs …
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Latest National Student Housing Stories
New York City-based Vesper Holdings and funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group recently completed the joint venture acquisition of ON50 Tampa for an undisclosed sum. The property is a 156-unit, 444-bed apartment community that caters to students attending the University of South Florida and adjacent to USF’s main campus in Tampa. “Our acquisition of ON50 …
KKR & Co. has sold seven U.S. student housing properties to Harrison Street, Bloomberg News reported Monday. The price for the portfolio, with 4,500 beds, was $725 million, reported Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the deal. Compared with apartments, student housing currently offers higher returns as measured by cap rates, according to MSCI …
Latest New York & Tri-State Student Housing Stories
Champion Real Estate Company recently acquired Campus Hill Apartments, a 267-unit, 715-bed student housing community with a central leasing office located at 1201 Harrison St. in Syracuse, NY, for $65 million. The property, which will be rebranded as Victory at Syracuse, is the company’s first student housing acquisition in New York State. Victory House Syracuse, LLC, a subsidiary of Champion, will begin …
B6 Real Estate Advisors has been retained to sell a community facility with 11 parking spaces at 63-14 Queens Blvd., a recently built, eight-story mixed-use residential condominium building in Queens’ Woodside neighborhood. The property, which spans the entire second floor of the building, is listed for $7 million. A B6 team of Thomas Donovan, Eugene Kim, Tommy Lin, Robert Rappa and Bradley Rutkin …
Latest Phoenix & Southwest Student Housing Stories
The Social Fort Collins, a 68-unit, 136 bed student housing facility was sold for $25.5 million. The complex, built in 2021, is within walking distance to Colorado State University as well as the newly-built Canvas Stadium. Colliers’ Bill Morkes is not surprised the facility came in so high, “It’s getting very difficult to build in …
Safehold Inc. is closing on its third ground lease in the Phoenix area for $54 million. The ground-lease is tied to the acquisition of Rise on Apache, a Class A student-housing property near Arizona State University in downtown Tempe, Ariz. (Go Sun Devils!) Rise on Apache is a 15-story property with 384 units that include …
Latest Seattle & Northwest Student Housing Stories
Champion Real Estate Company has acquired .33 acres of land near University of Washington in Seattle in a $7 million dollar transaction. The firm has also obtained approvals for the development on the site of Victory at the U, a 110-unit, 516-bed student housing community. “Upon entering escrow in late 2019, we started to obtain …
Colliers and Foundry Commercial have partnered in the sale of the former Portland Concordia University campus to the University of Oregon. The 19-acre, 23-building complex will be transformed into a first-of-its-kind children’s mental health center dedicated to addressing children’s behavioral and mental health crises. The firms were retained by the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF) …
Latest Texas Student Housing Stories
A fund run by the Blackstone Group will acquire all outstanding shares of American Campus Communities (ACC) common stock for $65.47 a share. The transaction is valued at $12.8 billion. ACC is the largest developer, owner and manager of student housing communities in the United States. The portfolio comprises 166 owned student housing properties across …
Global Student Accommodation (GSA) has acquired Waterloo Tower, a 796-bed student housing community located near the University of Texas at Austin. The community offers fully furnished units with bed-to-bath parity and private patios overlooking the university’s West Campus area. Shared amenities include a fitness center with a spin studio, onsite coffee shop, pool with hot …
Latest Washington DC Student Housing Stories
Bethesda, MD-based Broad Street Realty, Inc., has acquired Midtown Row in Williamsburg, VA for $122 million. The mixed-use property is a recently completed development comprised of 240 student housing units with 620 beds and a retail component of 63,573 square feet of gross leasable area. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is …
Berkadia has secured a $62-million stretch senior loan for the acquisition a 157-unit/568-bed student housing property located near Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Aaron Moll of Berkadia Student Housing and Cody Kirkpatrick, Noam Franklin, Chinmay Bhatt and Matthew Tu of Berkadia Joint Venture Equity & Structured Capital arranged the loan from PIMCO on behalf …