Done Deals: JLL Capital Markets closes $4 million sale of 16-unit Infill multi-housing community in Miami’s Little Havana area to private investor

Friday, August 27, 2021

JLL Capital Markets closes $4 million sale of 16-unit Infill multi-housing community in Miami’s Little Havana area to private investor

Tecela Little Havana

MIAMI, FL – JLL Capital Markets announced it has closed the $4.1 million sale of Tecela Little Havana, a 16-unit, newly developed, small-scale, urban, infill multi-housing community in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

JLL marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Miami-based Tecela. 761 NW 1ST LLC acquired the property.

Jason R. Chandler

Completed in two phases between 2017 and 2019, the design for Tecela Little Havana was inspired by New York brownstones, Boston townhomes and Miami’s culture and style, designed by award-winning Florida architect Jason Chandler, built by general contractor 748 Development with construction loan from First American Bank and leased and managed by Compass.

The building, which has been featured in Forbes, ARCHITECT Magazine and Miami Herald, houses four townhouses comprising of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging from 595 to 1,171 square feet.

Calle Ocho annual music festival

Units feature high ceilings, polished concrete floors, in-unit washer and dryer and a large balcony or private backyard.

Victor Garcia

The townhouses were the first to take advantage of a city of Miami zoning change in 2015 tallowing buildings up to 10,000 square feet with no on-site parking.

Tecela Little Havana set a per-door sale record for a smaller building with no on-site parking as distinguished from larger no-parking buildings.

Located at 761-771 NW 1^stSt., the property is within Miami’s Little Havana, a vibrant enclave known for its Latin culture.

Tecela Little Havana is centrally located with convenient access to Interstate 95 and subsequent linkage to other major thoroughfares and benefits from its proximity to major transportation hubs, including a 15-minute drive to Miami International Airport and the Port of Miami and only a five-minute drive to MiamiCentral Station.

Ted Taylor

Miami Beach and downtown Coral Gables are a 20-minute drive from the property. Residents can enjoy a short walk to an abundance of shopping, dining and entertainment on SW 8^th Street aka “Calle Ocho”, one of Miami’s most dynamic and historic dining and nightlife corridors.

The JLL Capital Markets investment advisory team representing the seller included Directors Victor Garcia and Ted Taylor, Associate Max La Cava and Analyst Luca Victoria.

Max La Cava

“With most of Little Havana’s multi-housing properties being of an older vintage, this represented a very rare opportunity to acquire a newly built asset within one of Miami’s fastest growing and highly desirable neighborhoods,” Garcia said.

“I am thankful for the investors and the whole team who moved these townhouses from idea to completion to sale, especially for JLL’s adept marketing of the first-in-Miami ‘brownstones’ and walkable urbanism in general,” added Andrew Frey from Tecela.

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Luca Victoria

About Tecela

Tecela is a real estate development company founded by Andrew Frey on the idea that the best urban neighborhoods – North End, Park Slope, Georgetown, French Quarter, Little Havana, Old San Juan – are made by many local developers building many iterations of dense but small building types like townhouses, rowhouses, and brownstones.