Tuesday, February 19, 2013

HFF closes $13 million sale of Decatur, GA multi-housing communities



Jason Nettles
ATLANTA, GA – HFF announced today that it has closed the sale of Birch Grove and Sycamore Chase, multi-housing communities totaling 332 units in Decatur, Georgia.

                HFF marketed the properties on behalf of the seller, an affiliate of Resource Real Estate.    Audubon Communities purchased the assets for $13 million in an all cash transaction.

David Wagner
Birch Grove and Sycamore Chase are situated on a combined 28.35 acres less than one mile apart at 3073 Cedar Creek Parkway and 3117 Cedar Brook Drive, respectively. 

The properties are located about nine miles east of downtown Atlanta within the perimeter of Interstate 285.  Birch Grove has 168 units and Sycamore Chase has 164 units with a combined occupancy of 94 percent.  Units are primarily two- and three-bedrooms with an average unit size of 1,142 square feet.

Birch Grove Apartments, Decatur, GA
The HFF investment sales team representing Resource Real Estate was led by senior managing director Jason Nettles and director David Wagner.

                Resource Real Estate manages a real estate portfolio with an aggregate value of approximately $1.7 billion, which includes over 24,000 apartment units across 66 multifamily communities in 18 states. It has over 550 employees across the United States with primary offices located in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Denver and Omaha.

Sycamore Chase Apartments
Decatur, GA
                Audubon Communities is an Atlanta-based real estate firm with regional offices in New York City and New Orleans that specializes in the redevelopment and repositioning of multi-family assets.  Audubon Communities will manage the property and oversee a major renovation and repositioning of the two communities.  This acquisition marks the fifth Atlanta apartment community acquired by Audubon and its investment partners in the past 16 months.


For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | 9 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 | Houston, TX 77046
tel 713.852.3500 | cel 617.543.4873 | fax 713.527.8725 | www.hfflp.com

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