Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Distinguished ICSC CDP Designation Received by Gary M. Ralston, Managing Partner of CBC Saunders Ralston Dantzler Realty


Gary M. Ralston
LAKELAND, FL – Gary Ralston, CCIM, managing partner of Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Ralston Dantzler Realty, LLC in Lakeland, recently received the ICSC Certified Development, Design, and Construction Professional (CDP) designation.

The ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc.) certification programs focus on raising the industry’s professional standards globally. 

There are 6,000 ICSC designees in 55 countries – representing fewer than 10% of the commercial real estate professionals in the shopping center industry. Of this elite group, only 500 designees have achieved CDP status.

Michael P. Kercheval, President and CEO of ICSC said of Ralston, “A mark of excellence, ICSC certifications give special recognition to shopping center professionals like you who demonstrate the highest levels of competency in their specialty as proven through solid professional education, experience, ethics and passing a rigorous examination.

“You have a proven record of accomplishment, experience, and success and are now counted among the most professional of your peers.”

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



Monday, January 27, 2014

HFF arranges sale of $31.6 million loan secured by Southfield, MI multi-housing properties




Wickliffe Kirby
DALLAS, TX – HFF announced today that it has arranged the sale of a senior mortgage loan secured by three multifamily properties located in Southfield and Oak Park, Michigan. 

Providence Green, Providence Tower and Providence Place contain a total of 1,312 units built between 1965 and 1968. 

HFF marketed the $31.6 million loan on behalf of a major financial institution. 

The loan was originated by the lender in 2006 to fund the acquisition of the three collateral properties and an additional property that was later sold by the borrower. 

The loan had an original funding balance of $41.3 million before it was later reduced from the sale of the fourth property.  The loan is set to mature in May 2014.

William O'Donnell
As of August 2013, Providence Green (723 units), Providence Tower (242 units) and Providence Place (347 units) had a combined occupancy of 65 percent.  The properties are located near the intersection of West 9 Mile Road and Greenfield Road approximately 10 miles northeast of the Detroit CBD.

               The HFF team representing the seller was led by managing director Daniel O’Donnell and associate director Wickliffe Kirby.

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

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | One Post Office Square, Suite 3500 | Boston, MA 02109
Main: 617-338-0990 | Direct: 617-848-1572 | Cell: 617-543-4873 | www.hfflp.com


HFF arranges $5.4 million financing for single-tenant industrial facility in Carteret, NJ


700 Blaire Road, Carteret, NJ

Jon Mikula

FLORHAM PARK, NJ – HFF announced today that it has arranged $5.4 million in financing for 700 Blair Road, a 234,325-square-foot, single-tenant, light industrial building in Carteret, New Jersey.

HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, The Hampshire Companies, to secure the seven-year, fixed-rate financing through Nationwide Real Estate Investments.  HFF previously sold the property to The Hampshire Companies in August 2013.

700 Blair Road is fully leased to, and functions as the corporate headquarters for Berjé Inc., a global leader and distributor of essential oils and aromatic chemicals with more than 60 years of experience supplying the flavor, fragrance, pharmaceutical and allied trades.

 The recently renovated property is situated on 12.41 acres close to Interstate 95/NJ Turnpike, Newark Liberty International Airport and Port Elizabeth/Newark.

The HFF team representing the borrower was led by senior managing director Jon Mikula and director Michael Klein.

Michael Klein
“The property’s recent upgrades, proximity to an extensive transportation infrastructure, and long term lease made this an attractive deal for Nationwide,” said Klein.  “As a result HFF was able to secure a very attractive rate and full-term, interest-only loan that best met Hampshire’s needs.”

The Hampshire Companies is a full-service, private real estate firm with equity in assets valued at more than $2.5 billion, based in Morristown, New Jersey.

 The Hampshire Companies is a vibrant, dynamic organization that combines creative vision and superior execution, thereby enabling it to create and enhance value in real estate investments.
  
For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Kristen M. Murphy
Associate Director
HFF | One Post Office Square, Suite 3500 | Boston, MA 02109
Main: 617-338-0990 | Direct: 617-848-1572 | Cell: 617-543-4873 | www.hfflp.com



EDGEHome System installation

SAN DIEGO, CA and ORANGE COUNTY, CA (Jan. 27 2014) – Green Edge Technologies, creators of EDGEhome, has announced an agreement with Irvine, Calif.-based TRI Pointe Homes to offer EDGEhome, the most advanced home intelligence system available, in four of the builder’s new communities in Southern California.

Scott Steele
 “This is a very exciting endeavor for our firm and a milestone for the EDGEhome product,” said Scott Steele, CEO and founder of Green Edge Technologies.

 “This agreement with TRI Pointe Homes will allow its homebuyers to be the first to experience the power of EDGEhome’s user-friendly, cost efficient and green home intelligence system.”

 Designed by a team of highly experienced former Motorola executives, designers, and engineers, EDGEhome provides consumers with real-time energy monitoring and control of every point of electricity usage in the home through a modern and intuitive user interface. 

The system is comprised of wireless devices, a tablet, and mobile applications that allow homeowners to conveniently monitor and control electrical usage and lighting throughout their home. The wireless devices are installed in every junction box and behind every switch and outlet in a home, providing ubiquitous coverage.

 To learn more about this revolutionary system and how to put it into your next development, visit www.edgehome.com or visit the EDGEhome booth (S1862) at the upcoming International Builders Show in Las Vegas on February 4 – 6.
   
For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Mark Thomton, mthomton@taylorjohnson.com, 312-267-4523

Emerson International negotiates new long-term lease agreement in Maitland Center Parkway office building


2600 Maitland Center Parkway, Maitland, FL
Altamonte Springs, Fla. --- Emerson International recently negotiated a new long-term lease agreement with Excel Mortgage Servicing, Inc. at 2600 Maitland Center Parkway.

Kenneth Koch, director of leasing at Emerson International, said Excel Mortgage Servicing leased 3,464 square feet of office space at the Maitland Center building.

Koch negotiated the lease agreement representing Emerson International, the landlord.  David Lundberg, managing partner of Commercial Equity Partners represented the tenant, Excel Mortgage.

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

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com

Arbor Appoints Patrick Boyle as Vice President

 
Patrick Boyle
UNIONDALE, NY (Jan. 27, 2014) – Arbor Commercial Mortgage, LLC (“Arbor”) today announced the appointment of Patrick Boyle as Vice President.

 Mr. Boyle is responsible for originating multifamily loans nationwide utilizing Arbor’s entire product line, including FHA, Fannie Mae, CMBS, Bridge, Mezzanine and Preferred Equity.

He is based in the company’s Bel Air, MD, office and reports to Ken Fazio, Senior Vice President, National Production Manager.

Mr. Boyle brings more than 13 years of commercial real estate financial services to Arbor. Most recently, he served as Vice President of a private Washington, DC-based lender specializing in commercial real estate financings nationwide.

Mr. Boyle began his career with J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking Division in New York, where he focused on leveraged buyouts in the retail and manufacturing sectors.  During the past 12 years in the industry, Mr. Boyle has closed more than $2 billion in financings.

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

Christopher Ostrowski

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Emerson International negotiates new long-term lease agreement in Maitland Center Parkway office building in Maitland, FL


Kenneth Koch
Altamonte Springs, FL--- Emerson International recently negotiated a new long-term lease agreement with Excel Mortgage Servicing, Inc. at 2600 Maitland Center Parkway.

Kenneth Koch, director of leasing at Emerson International, said Excel Mortgage Servicing leased 3,464 square feet of office space at the Maitland Center building.

Koch negotiated the lease agreement representing Emerson International, the landlord.  David Lundberg, managing partner of Commercial Equity Partners represented the tenant, Excel Mortgage.

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


 Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 Lvershelco@aol.com

Steve Hyatt of Berger Commercial Realty Brokers Sale of Downtown Fort Lauderdale, FL Office Building for More Than $2 Million

  
Former AIDS Healthcare Foundation Inc. headquarters,
 955 South Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  
Steve Hyatt
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL- Berger Commercial Realty Senior Vice President Steve Hyatt announced the sale of a 24,000-square-foot office building in Fort Lauderdale from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. to Sapphire Investment Fund, LLC.

Located at 955 S. Federal Highway, the four-story building and adjoining parking lot sold in two separate transactions for a total of $2,025,000.

 "I had tremendous interest in this property and showed it close to 60 times," said Hyatt, who represented the Foundation in the transaction. 

"The buyer is an Australian developer who plans to spend more than $2 million to extensively renovate the building for speculative office space."  There were three other buyer groups in line as back- ups"

 The high-visibility building along Federal Highway , which formerly housed the Broward County Building and Zoning department, was completely gutted on the inside prior to the sale.

 "This sale marks our seventh in downtown Fort Lauderdale since October 2012, bringing our recent sales volume in the area to $26 million," Hyatt added.

"This sub-market of Broward County has seen a big surge in sales of well-located office buildings under 50,000 square feet. There is not much available product left in this size range for the owner/user or the speculative investor."

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

Marielle Sologuren
(954) 776-1999, ext. 226

Crossman & Co. Closes Sale on Marketplace Shopping Center in Tennessee

        
John Zelinski
MADISONVILLE, TN -- Marketplace Shopping Center, a 39,400 square foot neighborhood shopping center anchored by a dark Food Lion, has been acquired by a private buyer. This transaction represents the second property sold in Tennessee and the eighth property sold in the last nine months by Crossman & Company.

Senior Vice President John Zielinski said “the dark anchor space created some challenges but we were able to find an owner-user while simultaneously negotiating a buyout of the anchor lease.  This structure helped ensure that we achieved the best price for our institutional client.” 

“Retail anchors, both traditional and non-traditional, have increasingly sought to buy the entire shopping center rather than just leasing their individual space,” said Director, Brian Carolan.


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

Claire Pagán
Phone  407.581.6223 |


Saturday, January 25, 2014

IPA Adds Leading Arizona Apartment Broker to National Team


Steve Gebbing
PHOENIX,  AZ—Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, is pleased to announce the expansion of its national team of senior advisors with the addition of Steve Gebing, according to Brian Murdy, national director of IPA.

            Gebing has been a leading broker of major multifamily properties with Marcus & Millichap for more than seven years, completing over $532 million in transactions in the last two years.

Gebing’s clients include some of the nation’s largest institutional and major private multifamily investors. As a senior director, he will be responsible for IPA’s Arizona office.

“We are excited to have Steve join IPA,” says Murdy. “He will continue building our presence in serving the robust Arizona markets and Nevada as well.”

Brian Murdy
Gebing and his business partner, Cliff David, a Marcus & Millichap vice president investments, are one of the strongest investment sales teams in Arizona.

David will remain focused on the private client segment of the market while Gebing will focus on serving the needs of institutional clients through the IPA division.   Gebing and David will be located in IPA’s Phoenix office along with Peter Katz, whose primary responsibility is overseeing student housing for IPA nationally.

“The addition of Steve to our team is an important part of our strategic plan to provide comprehensive and integrated investment advisory services to major apartment investors through an expanding national collaborative platform,” says Hessam Nadji, Marcus & Millichap’s chief strategy officer.

Gebing joined Marcus & Millichap in 2006 as an associate in the firm’s Phoenix office, rising to vice president investments in July 2012. Gebing has earned three national achievement awards and three sales recognition awards.

Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Gebing spent nearly seven years working for IBM, where he served as the worldwide sales and marketing manager for IBM’s emerging storage virtualization software.

Cliff David
In this role, Gebing had responsibility for identifying new market opportunities, coordinating go-to-market activities, as well as developing, communicating and strengthening the portfolio's value proposition. 

Since its introduction, IPA’s sales volume of major apartments has nearly doubled, positioning IPA/Marcus & Millichap among Real Estate Alert’s top five institutional apartment brokers nationally.

 In October 2013, the firm expanded its services by introducing IPA Capital Markets, which works in an integrated fashion with the firm’s investment sales advisors to provide institutions and major private investors with a full range of financing services from a global suite of capital providers.
  
For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Gina Relva
Public Relations Manager
(925) 953-1716

Chatham Lodging Trust Announces Marketing of Joint Venture Hotel Portfolio

  
Jeffrey H. Fisher
PALM BEACH, FL —Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE: CLDT), a hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in upscale extended-stay hotels and premium branded select-service hotels, today announced that the Chatham/Cerberus joint venture is offering for sale the 51-hotel, 6,847 room Innkeepers portfolio. Eastdil Secured is exclusive advisor for the offering.

The offering represents a rare opportunity to own a highly-diversified portfolio of newly renovated hotels that are supported by superior locations, leading brands, strong property performance, substantial recent capital investment and compelling, long-term value enhancement opportunities.

The portfolio is being offered unencumbered by management contracts and has a $950 million interest-only loan in place with a floating interest rate of LIBOR + 4.8 percent that is assumable subject to certain conditions.

The portfolio benefits from $171 million in capital expenditures since 2007 or approximately $25,000 per room. Operating performance has been strong in 2013 with estimated RevPAR growth of 5.5 percent, a RevPAR penetration index of 129 and estimated EBITDA of approximately $101 million.

“Having owned or operated the portfolio for quite some time, we know these hotels very well, its results are very strong, and with industry experts projecting attractive growth in the future, we would expect the portfolio to continue to produce great results” said Jeffrey H. Fisher, Chatham’s chief executive officer.

 “The joint venture has already returned 92 percent of our original capital investment, so if a sale occurs, the potential value that may accrue to Chatham because of our promote interest could be meaningful.”

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

Jerry Daly, Carol McCune                                 
Daly Gray Public Relations                                  
(Media)                                                                 
(703) 435-6293                                                    


Dennis Craven
Chief Financial Officer
(Company)                
(561) 227-1386              

NAI Realvest Negotiates Four Leases totaling 8,377 SF at South Park Business Center in Orlando, FL

 
Tom R. Kelley II

 ORLANDO, FL– NAI Realvest recently negotiated four new leases – two new ones and two renewals --  totaling 8,377 square feet at South Park Business Center, a flex,  office and warehouse center located at 8600 Commodity Circle in Orlando. 

 Tom R. Kelley II, CCIM, principal at NAI Realvest, brokered all four transactions on behalf of the Miami-based Landlord South Park, LLC.  The tenants include:

 Mat Life LLC, signed a new lease for Unit 115 with 2,307 square feet;  PPT Strength & Conditioning renewed its lease of Unit 116 with 2,146 square feet;

Vacation Innovations LLC  renewed the lease of Unit 119 with 2,094 square feet and Ding Bikes LLC, is a new tenant in unit 124 with 1,830 square feet. 

 The 57,000 square foot business center was built in 2008.

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

Beth Payan or Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142  lvershelco@aol.com

Emerson International reports big jump in occupancy in 11 Central Florida office properties


Kenneth Koch
Altamonte Springs, FL--- Emerson International reports that occupancy in 11 Class A commercial office properties it owns and manages in Maitland, Longwood, Altamonte Springs and Orlando increased from 75 percent to more than 84 percent in 2013.

Kenneth Koch, director of leasing at Emerson International, said Emerson International’s portfolio group of office properties totals 1,127,788 square feet of space.

“Office occupancy is a reliable long-term measure of overall economic health and clearly the regional economy is improving,” Koch said. 

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

Beth Payan or Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 


NAI Realvest Negotiates Office Lease Agreement for 7-Eleven Regional Office in Maitland, FL


Tom R. Kelley II
ORLANDO, FL. --- NAI Realvest recently completed a new long term lease agreement with 7-Eleven Corporation for a regional office in the 800 Trafalgar Court building in Maitland Center.

 Tom R. Kelley II, CCIM, a principal in the firm and Associate Chris Adams negotiated the transaction representing the landlord, Maitland-based FFVA/Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association.

 Kelley said 7-Eleven will be using the 2,185 square foot office facility for administration and training.   Gina LeMaster of Avista Retail & Development was the cooperating broker. 

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

Beth Payan or Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 


Friday, January 24, 2014

Sacramento, CA-Area Multifamily Asset Sells for $14.25 Million

  
Parkwood Apartments, 6930 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael, CA
 
Eric Price
CARMICHAEL, CA, Jan. 24, 2014 – Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, the nation’s largest real estate investment services firm, has arranged the sale of Parkwood, a 197-unit apartment complex in Carmichael, a city within the greater Sacramento, Calif. metropolitan area. The $14,250,000 sales price equates to $72,335 per unit.

            Eric Price, a senior associate in Marcus & Millichap’s Sacramento office, represented the buyer and seller, two family trusts.

            “The sale of Parkwood demonstrates the demand from private investors for core assets in Sacramento’s premier rental markets,” says Price. “The new owner is in an excellent position to benefit from the area’s resurgent housing market and continued movement in rents.”

            The property is located at 6930 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael across the street from the largest park in the area, Carmichael Park, which features six tennis courts, four baseball diamonds, a large children’s play area and an off-leash dog park.

Safeway, Bel Air and Big Lots are nearby and Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael’s main thoroughfare, is home to many other retailers and restaurants, services and employment opportunities.

            Constructed in two phases on 7.2 acres in 1973 and 1985, Parkwood’s unit mix features one- and two-bedroom floor plans. Many units have additional half- or quarter-baths and 10 have had washers and dryers installed. 

All of the apartments feature well-equipped kitchens with dishwashers, disposals and electric appliances. Select units have vaulted ceilings and outside storage space.

            Parkwood’s community amenities include access gates, two swimming pools, a fitness and recreation center, four laundry rooms and reserved parking for every apartment.

            Recent renovations include parking lot resurfacing, siding repair and new exterior paint.

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

Gina Relva
 Public Relations Manager
(925) 953-1716