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Real estate investing in older adults: What’s best?

NEW YORK – Aug. 22, 2017 – With all the talk about aging baby boomers and life- extending health care advances , it might be a bit bewildering deciding which seniors housing assets are best primed for success. Lee Everett, managing consultant at research firm CoStar Portfolio Strategy , might be able to provide some clarity. Two product types – active adult communities and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs – will be the winners in the seniors housing race both in the short and the long term, Everett says. Everett and his CoStar colleagues are bullish about active adult communities , which are age-restricted developments that offer an independent lifestyle and relatively maintenance-free housing. Growth in this segment is "just around the corner," with more baby boomers getting older and seeking alternatives to traditional homes and apartments. "We're looking at a period where there's going to be a lot of fast and explosive growth in active a...

Waterton Acquires 404-Unit Apartment Community in Arlington, Va.

CHICAGO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Waterton, a U.S. real estate investor and operator, today announced the acquisition of a 404- unit rental community in Arlington, Va., approximately 3 miles southwest of the Pentagon. Built in 1992 and formerly known as Windsor at Shirlington Village, the property at 3000 S. Randolph St. is being rebranded as The Citizen at Shirlington Village following Waterton’s acquisition. Offering a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans – 132 units in an eight-story tower and 272 in a low-rise component – the community is located within The Village at Shirlington, a small transit-oriented neighborhood with a host of shopping, dining and entertainment options. “The Citizen offers the walkable, urban-inspired lifestyle many renters seek in an accessible location close to the Pentagon and jobs throughout the D.C. metro,” said Matthew Masinter, senior vice president of acquisitions at Waterton. “Because the property was developed 25 years ago, it also prese...

Greystone Closes $550 Million Freddie Mac Loan to Refinance Moinian’s Sky, Largest Residential Tower in U.S.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greystone, a real estate lending , investment and advisory company , today announced its closing of a $550,000, 000 permanent Freddie Mac loan made to joint-venture partners The Moinian Group and SL Green Realty Corp . for Sky Residences (“Sky”), one of Manhattan’s premier mixed-use residential buildings . The Greystone Bassuk debt advisory team , led by Richard Bassuk and Drew Fletcher, represented the Borrower and assisted in obtaining the Freddie Mac loan through Greystone’s Affordable Lending team . The transaction marks the largest-ever single-asset tax- exempt financing completed by Freddie Mac and a first-of-its- kind private placement structure that includes permanent financing for hundreds of affordable housing units in New York City. Steve Rosenberg , CEO of Greystone, together with Billy Posey, Joe Mosley, and Jeff Englund, collaborated with Freddie Mac on the structure for Moinian and SL Green, and spearheaded the loan proc...

Lowe Enterprises Investors Acquires The Reserve Glenview Apartment Community

LOS ANGELES--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Lowe Enterprises Investors (LEI), in joint venture with an institutional investor, has acquired The Reserve Glenview , a 239-unit transit-oriented apartment community which opened in 2015, located in the premier North Shore submarket of suburban Chicago. Set on 7.59 acres at the intersection of Waukegan and Golf Roads, it is immediately adjacent to the Golf Transit Metra Station and a new retail center providing grocery, restaurants, shops and services. “The Reserve Glenview is a well-designed, new community with a prominent location in North Shore, one of the best performing rental markets in suburban Chicago,” said Andy Sands, managing director, LEI. “It provides easy access to the area’s major employers and is steps away from public transit for commuting to downtown Chicago.” Located at 195 Waukegan Road, the community is designed with three-story buildings wrapping around a center parking structure . The community is an attractive option for p...

Horizons at Rock Creek apartments sell for $250 million

The Horizons at Rock Creek apartments in Superior have been sold in the largest multifamily transaction in Colorado history . In a deal that closed Monday, real estate investor Bell Partners of Greensboro, N.C., will pay about $250 million for the 1,206- unit luxury apartment complex to the southeast of U.S. 36 and South 88th Street . It marks the first western U.S. acquisition for Bell Partners, whose $ 5 billion apartment portfolio is based primarily in the Southeast. “They were looking for an opportunity to get into this market and establish a beachhead,” said Terrance Hunt, executive managing director of ARA, a Newmark Co., which brokered the transaction. “This was a prime opportunity for them to set up shop here.” The 80- acre property features a 13-acre lake and a 24,000-square-foot clubhouse. Horizons at Rock Creek sits west of the Interlocken business park and the FlatIron Crossing mall in Broomfield. “They will really be able to take advantage of the Interlocken mar...

Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed.

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“And suddenly they were able to help us and to buy things that we cannot buy,” he said. “It was like a housekeeper buying your house. That is awkward.” The conditions in both countries created a perfect match: As Portugal reeled from a financial crisis a few years ago, Angolans were enjoying an oil boom that provided enormous opportunities for self-enrichment by the elite, particularly the president’s family and inner circle. Angola is often listed as one of the world’s most corrupt nations. And Portugal has been singled out for its laxness in reining in money laundering and bribery, particularly in its dealings with Angolans, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the research and policy organization of the world’s richest countries. “In Angola, they call Portugal the laundromat,” said Ana Gomes, a Portuguese lawmaker in the European Parliament and a member of Portugal’s governing Socialist Party . “It’s because it is.” But the two nations’ relationsh...