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Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties Announce Joint Venture Partnership with Collins Capital Partners and Kaufman Jacobs and Closing of Construction Financing for Multifamily Opportunity Zone Development in Chesterfield County, VA
Affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., (“Cantor Fitzgerald”), a leading global financial services firm and real assets investment company, and Silverstein Properties (“Silverstein”), a leading global full-service real estate development, investment, and management firm, announced that they have entered into a joint venture with Collins Capital Partners (“Collins”), a nationally recognized real estate firm and Kaufman Jacobs, a real estate private equity firm. The venture will develop The James at Springline, a mixed-use project including 298 rental units and 28,000 square feet of ground-level retail located in a qualified opportunity zone in Chesterfield County, near Richmond, VA…
Cultivating Wealth via Specialty Farmland
Smart investors are always on the hunt for the ideal asset class to diversify their portfolios without sacrificing returns. Traditional stocks and bonds have their merits, but true diversification and outperformance requires thinking outside the box. Enter farmland, an underfocused asset class offering strong, stable and uncorrelated returns to drive portfolio diversification….
Shopoff Sells Del Taco-Anchored Retail Center in Fullerton
Shopoff Realty Investments (“Shopoff”) has sold the hard corner of the current Sunrise Village Shopping Center located in the City of Fullerton, California. The sold property includes the Del Taco drive-thru ground lease, and a 6,355-square-foot three-tenant pad, with current lessees, Papa John’s Pizza, Sunrise Optometry, and Coffee Code. The buyer is Dream ERE: Real Estate, a local Orange County investor…
Urban Catalyst Floats Housing Instead Of Offices At Icon/Echo
Urban Catalyst is now considering adjusting plans for Icon/Echo by replacing the office component with more housing in Downtown San Jose, Santa Clara County. The plan was floated by the developer founder, Erik Hayden, and reported by George Avalos for the Bay Area News Group. If altered, Icon/Echo could create over a thousand units from the two-acre parcel.
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ExchangeRight’s $110 Million Offering Designed for Recession-Resilience Achieves Full Subscription
ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced that the company has fully subscribed its Net-Leased Portfolio 62 DST, a $110.12 million offering totaling 428,605 square feet net-leased to grocery, pharmacy, medical, and other necessity-based national tenants operating essential businesses…
Blackstone Sells Control of 11-Property Apartment Portfolio
Blackstone Group has sold a majority stake in an 11-property multifamily portfolio in New York as the world’s largest commercial real estate owner focuses more on residential rental investments across growing Sun Belt markets and other property types such as data centers.
ExchangeRight Fully Subscribes a $109 Million Offering Designed for Economic Resilience
ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced the company fully subscribed its Net-Leased Portfolio 61 DST, a $109.37 million offering totaling 377,666 square feet net-leased to grocery, pharmacy, medical, and other necessity-based national tenants operating essential businesses…
Capital Square Closes on Construction Loan for Seventh Opportunity Zone Fund Development
Capital Square, one of the nation’s leading sponsors of tax-advantaged real estate investments and an active developer of multifamily communities, announced today that the firm has secured financing from United Bank to fund construction of a 352-unit, Class A multifamily development in the Scott’s Addition qualified opportunity zone in Richmond, Virginia…
Capital Square Fully Subscribes DST Offering of Multifamily Community Near Huntsville, Alabama
Capital Square, one of the nation’s leading sponsors of tax-advantaged real estate investments and an active developer of multifamily communities, announced today that its offering, CS1031 FarmHaus Apartments, DST, has been fully subscribed…
Blackstone Group retail push returns after property fund redemption panic – reports
Blackstone Group has revived plans to enter the retail market and launch a private equity fund for wealthy investors, according to reports. The company’s ambition to launch the Blackstone Private Equity Strategies fund were scuppered in 2022 after it was forced to limit redemptions from its flagship $67bn property fund.
Arixa Capital Announces Strategic Joint Venture With Oaktree
Arixa Capital Advisors, LLC (“Arixa Capital” or “Arixa”) today announced the launch of a $100M strategic joint venture, with the ability to upsize in the future, with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”) to originate senior secured loans backed by residential and commercial real estate….
Realty Income to invest about $950 million in Bellagio Las Vegas
Realty Income (O.N) signed an agreement with Blackstone’s real estate investing firm to invest about $950 million in the Bellagio Las Vegas resort, valuing the assets at $5.1 billion, the companies said on Friday…
Blackstone Is the First Alternative Asset Manager to Hit $1 Trillion AUM. So Where Does It Go From Here?
In July, Blackstone BX reported that it had surpassed $1 trillion in total assets under management during the second quarter of 2023, being the first alternative asset manager to cross that threshold. A bit of background to start: “Alternative asset management” is an umbrella term for asset managers that specialize in private market investment strategies like private equity, private debt, or real assets, or in strategies that invest in publicly traded securities in a nontraditional manner, like hedge funds or funds of funds. (I am oversimplifying a bit—there is some overlap between these groups.)
Legendary Capital Expands Team with Two New Wholesaling Vice Presidents
Legendary Capital, LLC, a leading Alternative Investment Sponsor, is delighted to announce the recent addition of Devon Gasparovic and Robin Boccardi to its distribution team as wholesaling vice presidents. These strategic hires mark another significant step in the company’s ongoing commitment to strengthening its distribution capabilities and providing superior partnering services to financial advisors across the country…