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TORONTO / DALLAS, TX, Oct. 30, 2014 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust (MST.UN) ("Milestone" or the "REIT") today announced that it has completed the purchase of Villas at Shadow Creek ("Shadow Creek" or the "Property"), a 560- unit multifamily apartment community located in the Pearland submarket of Houston, Texas, for a purchase price of US$74.0 million. This acquisition was previously announced by the REIT on September 15, 2014. Shadow Creek was built in two phases in 2006 (296 units) and 2007 (264 units) and is currently approximately 95% occupied, with average monthly rents of approximately US$1,200 per unit. The Property's average in-place rents are higher than the REIT's portfolio average in part due to a higher proportion of two and three- bedroom apartment suites . Shadow Creek has the potential for a value- add program relating to unit interior upgrades . The Property features ...

Fewer of these, please. iStock/Thinkstock It's possible to get rich if your business only caters to rich people. But it's hard to have a massive and really successful industry in the United States today if you only cater to rich people. There are only so many people in the country with good credit and lots of cash sitting around. And this week, we got evidence that one of America’s largest industries may be running into trouble because its products appeal only to the upper crust. I’m not talking about jewelry or apparel. I’m talking about housing. On Tuesday, luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers reported a blow-out quarter, noting that contracts and sales were up 20 percent from the year before, and said it might sell more than 2,500 homes in the upcoming quarter. Advertisement On Wednesday, the Census Bureau announced that new home sales in July were down 9.4 percent from June, and down 8.9 percent from July 2016. On Thursday, the National Association of Realtors reported t...

By John-Henry Perera , Chron.com / Houston Chronicle Published 7:28 pm, Sunday, August 13, 2017 Photo: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Image 1 of 14 Close-up of lifeguard Linda Fox as she sits poolside at the Watergate complex, Washington DC, 1969. In the center rear is the Watergate East co- op apartment building . (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images) less Close-up of lifeguard Linda Fox as she sits poolside at the Watergate complex, Washington DC, 1969. In the center rear is the Watergate East co- op apartment building . (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture ... more Photo: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images Image 2 of 14 Aerial view of the Watergate complex located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood , Washington DC, 1969. Pictured are Watergate West (left), the Watergate Hotel and Office buildings (center), and Watergate West. (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE...

NEW YORK, NY -   Centerline Capital Group (“Centerline”), a provider of real estate financial and asset management services for affordable and conventional multifamily housing , and a subsidiary of Centerline Holding Company (OTC: CLNH), announced today it has provided a $12. 2 MM Fannie Mae facility to refinance the Copper Creek Apartments in Evansville, Indiana. Copper Creek Apartments is a Class A garden style multifamily facility that comprises 16, two- and three-story buildings with a combined total of 291 units.  The loan is a 10- year fixed rate facility with a 30- year amortization period . The loan proceeds will be used to pay off the combined existing debt and yield maintenance that will mature in 2012.  Centerline is one of the nation’s leading Mortgage Banking institutions in the multifamily sector . The borrower is a single asset, Indiana limited partnership that is led by a well- established property owner in this tertiary market, and a l...

PHOENIX, Aug. 21 -- Hines issued the following news release: Hines, the international real estate firm , has entered into a joint venture agreement with New York Life Real Estate Investors , on behalf of its institutional client , as its equity partner to develop the Offices at Chandler Viridian .The Offices at Chandler Viridian is a six-story, Class A office building with 250,000 square feet of space located at the intersection of Loop 101 and Loop 202 near the Chandler Fashion Center ."The Offices at Chandler Viridian is a highly desirable office building offering users the connectivity needed in today's business world. The addition of New York Life Real Estate Investors ' institutional client creates a powerhouse partnership for this project," said Chris Anderson, managing director and Arizona leader for Hines. "Without leaving the Chandler Viridian campus , tenants will be able to stay at a beautiful new hotel, live at a luxury multifamily complex , ea...

As you do more banking by smartphone, that bank branch you used to visit may soon turn into a restaurant, a day care center or even a condo tower. After a branch building boom a decade or so ago, banks are closing offices by the thousands as more of their customers bank online . They're leaving behind space ready to be transformed into something else, whether an urban storefront or a free- standing brick building with a drive-thru in the suburbs. "If the real estate is strong, any number of things can happen to the property," says Kim McGuire, senior vice president in the Chicago office of CBRE. It's a problem or an opportunity, depending on your perspective, that will be here for a while. Banks operate about 89,300 branches in the United States today , down 8 percent over the past decade, according to Chicago- based real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle . JLL expects an additional 20 percent drop over the next decade. In the Chicago area, the number of branches d...

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...

BERKELEY, CA - Archstone, a leader in apartment investment and operations, today announced the start of construction on its first apartment community in Berkeley, Calif. The 94- unit apartment community , Archstone Berkeley on Addison, will be located at the corner of Third and Addison, just blocks from the Berkeley Marina and the San Francisco Bay . The apartment community ’s location offers easy access to a vast array of professional jobs, shopping destinations , dining options and public transportation. “Berkeley is an incredible city and an excellent fit for an Archstone apartment community . It is a highly desirable place to live, has limited land on which to build new housing and has a strong, diversified economy,” said Amir Massih, Archstone’s group vice president of development for the San Francisco Bay Area . “We’re excited about starting this project and look forward to providing an outstanding addition to the neighborhood and for our future residents.” ...

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...

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