Scott Miller's March Commercial Real Estate Roundup



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RealShare Houston April 30th at the Petroleum Club


DATE: April 30, 2013


TIME: 07:30AM


LOCATION: The Petroleum Club of Houston


 


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BOTHELL, WA-Canyon Park Highlands II and III, a pair of life science research/office buildings located on 30th Drive in Bothell, WA, have changed hands.

 


For nearly a decade, a hospital building boom around Puget Sound has filled the skyline with cranes, driven profits for architects and contractors, and helped alter the region’s landscape.

 


Gerding Edlen, a Portland-based company, bought the historic Dexter Horton Building in downtown Seattle, company CEO Mark Edlen said Friday.

 


The pace of multifamily investments in the greater Seattle area shot up 87 percent last year, and that growth is expected to continue in 2013.

 


The Seattle area dropped to No. 17 in the U.S. in the number of energy efficient buildings in the city, falling from as high as No. 10 just a few years ago.

 


Office space in downtown Bellevue is getting harder and harder to come by……

 


The company that owns the Space Needle took to the airwaves on Tuesday to warn that the proposed rezone of the South Lake Union neighborhood could result in the construction of tall buildings that would block the views of the Needle and the Olympic Mountains.

 


Security Properties plans to start construction next year on a 316-unit apartment project in the Spring District, a 36-acre development in Bellevue, company Chief Development Officer John Marasco said Tuesday.

 


Two office buildings in Seattle's Union Station tech office complex were sold Wednesday for a total of $96.9 million.

 


 


Housing for college students, long dominated by small players willing to put up with beer pong and raucous parties, is attracting some of the biggest names in real-estate development

 


The St. Louis Cardinals have won the World Series twice in the past 10 years, and the team draws more than three million fans annually to Busch Stadium.

 


A group of lenders has agreed to make the first major construction loan for a condominium project in the Miami area since the crash, marking a milestone in the recovery of real-state financing market for condos.

 


Some of the country's biggest banks were on pace to find a higher rate of past foreclosure mistakes than regulators disclosed in January when they halted a review in favor of a $9.3 billion settlement for homeowners.

 


Add one more item to the list of products "made in China": debt backed by commercial mortgages.

 


Lots of real-estate funds that used piles of borrowed money to buy risky properties got crushed during the financial crisis.

 


Hedge fund Orange Capital LLC is trying to convince Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. BEE +2.61% to liquidate its luxury properties, and its effort partly comes down to simple math.

 


A stalled project in Hollywood is set to finally get under way in a development that will test demand for office space in the slowly gentrifying area.

 


Dan Gilbert, the billionaire Detroit real-estate investor, has shown he likes a bargain—snapping up downtown office properties for as little as $10 a square foot.

 


In the latest sign that New York City's luxury market remains hot, the developer of Manhattan's tallest residential tower said it has signed contracts to sell more than a third of its luxury condo units two years before the building is set to be completed.

 


U.S. shopping-mall owners, already hit with store closures by longtime laggard Sears Holding Corp., SHLD -1.02% are now pondering what steps to take if struggling chain J.C. Penney Co. JCP -0.47% closes some of its 1,104 stores.

 


Now that KKRKKR +0.68% & Co. has completed its seventh real-estate acquisition since 2011, one theme in its property-investment strategy is becoming clearer: The New York private-equity firm is joining the push into smaller markets in a search for higher yields.

 


Detroit's most active real-estate investor thinks he can teach the hobbled Motor City to walk…….

 


 


Historic and picturesque Heidelberg seems an unlikely spot for an ambitious, ultramodern sustainable-housing project.

 


Federal investigators subpoenaed shopping center owner Kimco Realty Corp. KIM +0.14% in a probe of alleged foreign bribery involving retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT -0.17%

 


TORONTO—After an uneven year of sales in the U.S., Target Corp. TGT +0.74% is pinning its hopes for growth on Canada, where it plans to open its first two dozen stores in the next few weeks.

 


Add one more item to the list of products "made in China": debt backed by commercial mortgages.

 


While the banking sector in Cyprus churns, the island's ailing real-estate industry is casting a hopeful eye to a large gas discovery recently off the country's southern coast.

 


Europe's biggest real-estate fund manager has started making its first investments in the U.S. market, in the latest sign of an increased appetite for risk among some European investors.

 


HONG KONG—With the government growing confident that it has halted the meteoric rise in property prices, some of this city's biggest real-estate investors are getting out.

 


SHANGHAI—When Zhang Yuliang's property company struck a deal to buy and develop a residential and hotel building in downtown Sydney, he had Chinese customers in mind.

 

MultiFamily

 


ANN ARBOR, MI- Albert M. Berriz, the chief executive officer of McKinley, Inc. and Daryl J. Carter, the chief executive officer of California-based Avanath Capital Management, announced yesterday that the two companies had formed a new partnership called “mckinley-avanath” to manage multifamily properties acquired by Avanath.

 


MIAMI—The multifamily market’s upward trajectory has given developers the confidence to start building again. But with this comes an entirely new set of concerns, as well as trends in construction.

 


SAN FRANCISCO- Those who follow @GlobeStcom on Twitter and @GlobeStLIVE may have seen a post teasing the announcement, but GlobeSt.com has learned that Archstone Fox Plaza has sold to Essex Residential Property Trust. According to Colliers International

 


MIAMI—Park Colony, a 316-unit luxury garden apartment community in Hollywood, FL, has traded hands. The multifamily asset is 95% occupied.

 


The multifamily sector is still hot, and it doesn't seem like that's going to change any time soon. That's the take of Jim McDevitt, president of Berkeley Point, a multifamily capital solutions provider.

 


Construction has started on one of Nashville, Tenn.'s first rental-apartment towers to be built in about a decade.

 


WASHINGTON—The construction cranes that have crowded this city's skyline for the past few years were symbols of its red-hot apartment market. But now, the sight of them could be an ominous sign of overbuilding.

 

DISTRESSED

 


Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. AMZN +1.50% has helped enliven Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood where it moved its headquarters in 2010, pushing up property values and sparking new construction.

 


MIAMI—Miami’s real estate market is starting the year the same way it finished 2012: strong. Rising sales and prices amid limited supply remains the storyline here.

 


PHOENIX- Seattle-based Goodman Real Estate acquired two distressed multifamily properties from Newport Beach, CA-based Sabal Financial Group, with plans to upgrade them and add them to the area rental pool.

 


Distressed Assets = 43% of Sales


IRVINE, CA-Foreclosure and short sales account for 43% of US residential sales in 2012, according to a report from RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties.


 


Heat Map Shows Foreclosure Hot Spots


IRVINE, CA-As GlobeSt.com reported earlier today, foreclosure filings increased 2% nationally in February from the previous month, reaching a 17-month high in Nevada and an even longer time period in other states, according to a report by RealtyTrac, a locally based online marketplace for foreclosure properties and real estate data.


 



 



BOTHELL, WA-Canyon Park Highlands II and III, a pair of life science research/office buildings located on 30th Drive in Bothell, WA, have changed hands. The buyer is Senior Housing Properties Trust, a Newton, MA-based healthcare REIT, which paid $38-million, or $262-per-square-foot for the 144,900-square-foot properties.


 


Related and Corvex Target CommonWealth's Management


For four decades, New York-based Related Cos. has been known primarily as a developer of apartments, retail and offices.


 


REITs Active in Healthcare Sector


LOS ANGELES-An increasing number of REITs are exploring the healthcare sector for investment opportunities, say several expert sources. The demand for properties in this asset class continues to rise as institutional investors look for safe havens in a post-recession environment.


 


MIAMI—Park Colony, a 316-unit luxury garden apartment community in Hollywood, FL, has traded hands. The multifamily asset is 95% occupied.

 


 


Sales of new homes are surging in the U.S., far outpacing results for less expensive existing homes and creating an unusual disparity in the housing recovery.

 


IRVINE, CA-There has been a lot of change in the demographic profile of Southern California communities, which has in turn impacted traditional grocery-anchored retail centers

 


Nearly every important set of government and private-sector figures show a housing market on the rebound. The recovery picked up steam in recent months with home sales jumping in January and December.

 


The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hitting record highs, and the Labor Department last week reported that employers added more jobs than expected.

 


Freddie MacFMCC +30.86% sued more than a dozen of the world's biggest banks for alleged manipulation of interest rates, in the first government-backed private litigation over the rate-rigging scandal.

 


The foray by Big Money into the single-family landlord business is becoming more sophisticated…..

 


The race is on for the distinction of tallest tower on the West Coast, which hasn't seen any buildings taller than 700 feet completed in two decades.

 

RE Blogs Education

 


Real estate developers, particularly in major metros, often rely on putting significant projects together with the acquisition of air rights from adjacent buildings that are zoned to build taller than the air that they are using

 


The idea of managing a triple net (NNN) lease property probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of real estate investors. After all, the tenant has 100% responsibility for the maintenance of the property and the owner simply receives a check on the first of the month, right?

 


“Like-kind” means I must exchange the same type of property, such as an apartment building, for

another apartment building. No! Like-kind is an unfortunate misnomer within the context of real property.

1031 exchanges are often called “like-kind exchanges” because that is the language used in the tax code.

 

RE Videos and Interactive



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