Miami Commercial Real Estate News October 27, 2021: Dadeland Multifamily Sells for $114M; Brickell Church Votes to Sell to Developer; More…

Lerner Acquires Miami Tower for $114M

Looking to build up a portfolio of South Florida communities, Lerner Enterprises has acquired a 294-unit high-rise community in Miami. The company purchased Motion at Dadeland from a joint venture led by Adler Group and 13th Floor Investments, in partnership with Barings LLC, for $114 million. Lerner also received an undisclosed amount of financing…

Joint Venture Sells Motion at Dadeland Apartments in Miami for $114M

Adler Group and 13th Floor Investments, in partnership with Barings LLC, has sold Motion at Dadeland, a transit-oriented multifamily development in Miami. Maryland-based Lerner Enterprises purchased the 25-story property for $114 million. Located at 8400 South Dixie Highway, Motion at Dadeland features 294 market-rate rental apartments and approximately 8,000…

Foundry Commercial, GLP Kickstart Doral Industrial Project

Foundry Commercial and Modlo, the logistics platform of GLP Capital Partners, have commenced development of the Modlo Air Logistics Center in Doral, Fla. The project will add approximately 495,000 square feet of next-generation logistics space to the high-demand Miami-area market. The Modlo Air Logistics Center will take shape on a nearly 24-acre site that…

Foundry, Modlo Break Ground on 495,000 SF Modlo Air Logistics Center in Metro Miami

Foundry Commercial, in partnership with Modlo, the logistics platform of GLP Capital Partners, has broken ground on the Modlo Air Logistics Center, a three-warehouse property near Miami spanning over 495,000 square feet. The 23.7-acre site located at 7777 NW 41st St. in Doral once housed a PepsiCo bottling facility. The three structures include Building 1…

The Rational Exuberance Around Industrial Real Estate

The industrial sector is hotter than ever, no matter how you measure it. Soaring demand and plummeting vacancy rates are showing no signs of letting up in both traditional industrial subsectors and niche subtypes, including cold storage, data centers, multistory warehouse, domestic light manufacturing, and facilities that can accommodate just-in-time delivery.

Miami Beach mayor facing ethics complaint for Ocean Drive meeting

A recently filed ethics complaint accuses Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber of breaking a city law that prohibits elected officials from soliciting campaign contributions from real estate developers. On Wednesday afternoon, Ronnie Eith, one of four candidates running against Gelber in the Nov. 2 city election, filed a complaint against Gelber with the Miami-Dade…

SkyRise Miami developer settles lawsuit with theme park company over $1M refund

A quickly settled lawsuit offered new details about the planning of SkyRise Miami and developer Jeff Berkowitz’s efforts to recoup some of the pre-construction expenses for the canceled project. Over the summer, Berkowitz announced he scuttled the 1,000-foot observation tower that was going to be built next to Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami.

Brickell church votes to sell waterfront land to developer for condo tower

An up to 80-story condo tower could rise on one of the few remaining waterfront lots in Brickell, after members of the church that owns the land voted to sell part of the parcel. The majority of First Miami Presbyterian Church members agreed to hammer out a deal with developer 13th Floor Investments for the parking lot as well as the elementary and middle…

City Of Miami To Build Patria Y Vida Condos, Sell Them At Cost

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and City Commissioner Joe Carollo announced Monday that the city will develop a 104-unit condominium and sell off its units at cost. The city is seeking a builder for the project, dubbed Patria y Vida. A rendering of the Patria y Vida condos to be built by the city of Miami. Suarez said the project was spearheaded by Carollo, known for…

A Tight Market For Industrial Service Facilities Is About To Get Tighter And Investors Sense Opportunity

Everyone is becoming more accustomed to seeing small trucks roam their neighborhoods, delivering goods ordered online. But even as the coronavirus pandemic greatly intensified demand for these services, most municipalities are reluctant to approve proposals to develop new industrial service facilities where distributors and other businesses can store…

Swire Properties Inc. Sells EAST, Miami to Trinity and Certares

Swire Properties Inc., one of South Florida’s leading international developers, announced today that it has completed the sale of the 352-key EAST, Miami hotel to a joint venture among funds managed by Trinity Fund Advisors LLC, an affiliate of Trinity Real Estate Investments LLC (“Trinity”), and funds managed by Certares Real Estate Management LLC…

Music exec and songwriter buys Edgewater building in Opportunity Zone

Music label executive Carl Austin Rosen, whose hit song co-writing credits include rapper Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” paid $5.6 million for an Edgewater building at 235 Northeast 29 Street that could house his music studio. Rosen, who is founder and CEO of Electric Feel music management, purchased the vacant building through his Electric Feel Realty QOZB. Los Angeles-based…

Seagis Property Group buys warehouse near Miami Gardens for $8M

In a continuation of its South Florida industrial real estate shopping spree, Seagis Property Group scooped up a former manufacturing facility near Miami Gardens for $8 million. Seagis bought the 60,577-square-foot warehouse at 255 Northeast 181st Street from an affiliate of Intima, a wholesaler of bedding, according to broker Jonathan Salk of Vanguard…

CRE has biggest-ever sales quarter, surpasses pre-pandemic levels by 19%

The boom is largely fueled by investors snagging a large number of single properties in a multitude of deals, rather than previous booms featuring plentiful portfolio sales, or sales of entire companies. Investors purchased $193 billion in commercial real estate during the third quarter, marking a reported record that surpassed pre-pandemic spending by 19%.

PE firms LarrainVial, DaGrosa Capital invest in Miami real estate companies

Two financial firms acquired stakes in South Florida real estate companies as the region continues to attract significant investment. LarrainVial, a Chilean-based financial services firm, purchased a 33 percent stake in Black Salmon and TSG, a Coral Gables-based commercial real estate investment firm and developer, respectively, both led by managing partners Camilo…

Jet Aviation signs $120M Opa-Locka airport deal

An international private jet operator is setting up a base near Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in a deal valued at more than $120 million, The Real Deal has learned. Jet Aviation, led by President David Paddock and a subsidiary of publicly traded General Dynamics, signed a 40-year sublease at AVE Aviation & Commerce Center at…

Miami Multifamily Report – Fall 2021

Miami’s rental market is overperforming in 2021, largely on the back of accelerated demand generated by incoming residents. Despite solid supply additions throughout the cycle, demand has maintained rent growth at some of the highest levels in the nation, with improvement at 2.8 percent on a trailing three-month basis. Meanwhile…

Windstar Cruises moving HQ to Doral from Seattle, tech firm inks Wynwood lease

Windstar Cruises I Doral Concourse Windstar Cruises will move its headquarters to Doral from Seattle, as South Florida remains a magnet for out-of-state companies. The cruise ship line inked a long-term, 9,100-square-foot lease at Doral Concourse, according to a news release from the landlord’s broker. Gordon Messinger of CBRE represented the building…

Expressway authority seeks 2,000 acres for Kendall Parkway

The Kendall Parkway corridor, a 14-mile multimodal transportation project with an estimated cost of over $1 billion, is in the planning reevaluation phase and awaiting funds as the Miami Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) fights in court its own existence. While the litigation is ongoing, no bonds can be issued, and the project can only move forward as funds…

Miami weighs plan to redevelop its Hyatt Regency site on river

Plans to improve and redevelop a long-standing Hyatt hotel site on the Miami River in downtown Miami have been proposed for years but never realized. That may change now that Hyatt intends to bring a new partner onboard. The fate of the high-profile property owned by the City of Miami is scheduled to be considered by the city commission today (10/28). On the…

93-story Waldorf Astoria of glass boxes wins Miami OK

A tower of glass boxes rising 93 stories on Biscayne Boulevard downtown as home to a Waldorf Astoria hotel has been recommended for approval by the city’s Urban Development Review Board. PMG Downtown Developers LP presented the elaborate plans. The site at the northwest corner of Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast Third Street, directly across…

Key Biscayne’s big victory in coastal risk areas

Key Biscayne’s inclusion in the Miami-Dade Beach Coastal Storm Risk Management project, headed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, to shore up the county’s vulnerable beachfront is a big win for the community, said Village Manager Steve Williamson. “A good percentage of our population, now grown to 15,000, lives on the coast,” he said, “all the while…”

Toll Brothers, CanAm Capital Get $103M loan for luxury student apartments at FIU

Swanky student housing is coming to Florida International University after Toll Brothers and CanAm Capital snagged a $103 million construction loan. The developers secured the loan from Ocean Bank on Monday to build Lapis, a 21-story luxury apartment building north of FIU at 765 SW 110th Avenue, according to a news release. It will have smart-electronic…

Developer buys OZ land in bet on Homestead as “future” of real estate

Many Miami developers covet waterfront sites and locations in bustling neighborhoods like downtown and Wynwood, but Armando Bravo is among those investing in south Miami-Dade. Bravo, through his Bravo and Partners 11 Acres LLC, bought an Opportunity Zone development site at 503 South Krome Avenue in Homestead for $5.4 million, he said. The 11 acres…

Wynwood nightlife pioneer sued over $1.5M in allegedly unpaid rent

The Wynwood nightlife pioneer who owned the popular Wood Tavern is being sued over $1.5 million in allegedly unpaid rent for four food and beverage establishments. The landlord, a joint venture led by New York-based Centurion Realty, recently filed three eviction lawsuits in Miami-Dade Circuit Court against Cesar Morales and two of…

New lease on life: Apartment projects popping up at distressed South Florida shopping centers

A rendering of Terra’s CentroCity development with David Martin of Terra Residential redevelopment of South Florida shopping centers is becoming more common, amid solid demand for rental housing and a slack market for retail space. This month, Houston-based developer Morgan Group won a land use change to build 356 apartments on the site of a former…

Landlords beware: Office tenants procrastinating on hybrid planning

A majority of office-using businesses are yet to decide what their hybrid future should look like. Hybrid work is underway in 72 percent of office-based companies and 65 percent said they don’t anticipate having any one dominant work location in the future, according to a new survey from Ernst & Young. A majority of business leaders believe a hybrid work…

Chart: Inflation Watch 2021 Intra-Quarter Update; Inflation Expectations Climbing

The 5-year TIPS spread, after almost calmly sitting a bit elevated over pre-pandemic levels, of a sudden spiked from its prior month close of 2.51% to 2.95% on October 25th. There has been much talk in the financial press of inflation pressures, but except for an initial move to the 2.5% range this has not registered in the TIPS. This may be but a blip itself, but of course…

This week on ‘Deconstruct’: The death of the cubicle

Are you a Marvel fan? Not the comics, of course, but the architect. You may be after this week’s episode of “Deconstruct,” TRD’s new podcast for all things real estate. Host Isabella Farr is joined by top architects Jonathan Marvel and Bernardo Fort-Brescia to talk about paradigm shifts in office space and where architecture firms fit in. With a portfolio showcasing…

The Importance of Commercial Building Permits

What’s lurking under the surface of your building? If work was done without commercial building permits, you could be in for an unfortunate surprise.   You’ve found the perfect commercial property to invest in: it has the right number of office suites, the perfect amount of square footage, and plenty of parking spaces. It’s just what you’ve been looking for! But…

Video: PwC Real Estate Leader Byron Carlock Discusses PwC & ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2022

In this video, the annual PwC – ULI (PricewaterhouseCoopers – Urban Land Institute) Emerging Trends Report, which is the result of surveying thousands of commercial real estate participants for their perspectives on the industry, is discussed with Byron Carlock, Real Estate Leader at PwC. Discussed are some of the most valuable takeaways from the report.

Active Miami construction lenderBank OZK loan originations reach highest level since 2017

Bank OZK, one of New York and Miami’s most active construction lenders, saw loan originations reach their highest levels in nearly four years. Arkansas-based Bank OZK’s Real Estate Specialties Group closed $2.21 billion of new loans during the third quarter, marking the highest quarterly level of originations since the fourth quarter of 2017. The bank also…

Miami River’s western bank poised for growth with $7M dev site purchase

Two Miami-based investors paid $6.5 million for a development site along the western bank of the Miami River, as growth along the river creeps inland. Andrew Korge’s Korgeous Development bought the nearly 2-acre industrial-marine property at 3007 Northwest South River Drive, with plans to eventually redevelop it, according to the deal’s broker. The property is…

Real estate powers Blackstone’s best quarter ever

Blackstone reported a blockbuster third-quarter this week — the best in its 36-year history. Earnings more than doubled year-over-year to $1.28 per share, trouncing the average Wall Street analyst estimate of 91 cents. And assets under management swelled 25 percent to $731 billion, besting industry records, said Stephen Schwarzman, the firm’s chairman…

One Thousand Museum doppelganger condo tower with helipad approved for Miami’s Edgewater

A partnership that includes the developers of One Thousand Museum have the green light to construct a 649-foot-tall waterfront condo tower in Edgewater with a helipad on the roof. Miami’s Urban Development Review Board approved the design of the proposed tower at 710 Northeast 29th Street by a vote of 3 to 1 on Wednesday. Called 729 Edge, it will be built…

Haute rent: What Gucci, Dior and others pay in Miami’s Design District

Shoppers keen on “revenge buying” this holiday season need look no further than Miami’s Design District, an 18-block cluster of luxury retailers, art galleries and restaurants. Gucci, Balenciaga and Dior Homme are just a few of the luxury outposts where shoppers can console themselves with fine threads for a healthy markup. A trio of developers and investors…

MMG Refinances Miami Gardens Shopping Center for $17M

MMG Equity Partners has secured $16.8 million to refinance Miami Gardens Shopping Center, located at 18350 NW 7th Avenue in Miami Gardens, FL.  Guardian Life Insurance Company of America provided the loan for the shopping center. JLL Capital Markets team, which included Chris Drew, Brian Gaswirth, and Reid Carleton…

WeWork stock up on first day, but profitability still fuzzy

Two years after WeWork’s planned IPO imploded in spectacular fashion, the co-working company is now a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The flex-office provider pitched itself to investors as WeWork 2.0. Gone were the hard-partying, pot-smoking days of founder Adam Neumann. No more self-interested side deals and pet projects…

Planned Waldorf Astoria Miami wins design approval

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences, planned for downtown Miami, won approval from Miami’s Urban Development Review Board on Wednesday. Property Markets Group, led by Kevin Maloney, Ryan Shear and Dan Kaplan, is proposing to construct a tower at 300 South Biscayne Boulevard that is 1,049 feet tall. The 100-story Waldorf Astoria in Miami…

Mall operator Washington Prime Group back from bankruptcy; CEO out

Just a few months after filing for Chapter 11, mall operator Washington Prime Group has emerged from bankruptcy. When the real estate investment trust, which owns more than 100 malls across the country, filed for bankruptcy protection in June, it listed $4 billion in assets and $3.5 billion in debts. Through the process, the company has reduced its debt…

Miami board rejects design for massive Wynwood mixed-use project, N29

It looks like it is back to the drawing board for the developers of a massive, nearly 1 million-square-foot, mixed-use project in Miami’s Wynwood. L&L Holding Company and Carpe Real Estate Partners were dealt a setback on Wednesday, when the Miami Urban Development Review Board voted 4 to 0 to reject its proposed design for N29, an office, retail, and apartment…

Miracle Mile double play: Terranova pays $8M for two Coral Gables retail sites

Stephen Bittel’s commercial real estate firm made a double play in Coral Gables, acquiring two Miracle Mile storefronts for $7.8 million. An entity tied to Miami Beach-based Terranova Corporation bought the retail sites at 232 Coral Way and 330 Miracle Mile, records show. The seller is Will of Mildred W Brown, LLC. In a statement, Bittel said the firm now owns…

Why Miami is a Magnet for Multifamily Developers, Lenders

South Florida’s multifamily market continued its expansion—bolstered by in-migration from major metros and a business-friendly climate—throughout the health crisis. What’s more, private capital investors are cashing in, banks are closing on sizable construction loans and rental rates are on the rise. Lending and development power players in the area…

Investment duo pays $41M for Fort Lauderdale shopping plaza

Steven Hudson and Charles Ladd Jr. are not slowing down their Broward County retail shopping spree, as they scooped up the South Harbor Plaza in Fort Lauderdale for $40.5 million. The real estate honchos, through their Chapter Two Investments, along with co-investors Las Olas Capital Advisors and Foreward Management, bought the retail-office property…

Palm Beach Gardens shopping center fetches record $102M

The Legacy Place shopping center traded for $101.7 million, marking the biggest Palm Beach County retail deal this year. Yet, the plaza also traded at a loss of nearly 44 percent compared to its last price in 2007. A joint venture of private equity mammoth Lone Star Funds and retail investor Woolbright Development bought the property…

TA Realty sells Palm Beach Gardens office building for $17M

Real estate investment behemoth TA Realty sold the Merrill Lynch-anchored Gardens Pointe for $16.8 million. Sunnyfield South bought the property at 3507 Kyoto Gardens Drive in Palm Beach Gardens, according to a release from one of the brokers. Sunnyfield South is affiliated with Fort Lauderdale-based Levy Realty Advisors and also is managed by…

In good hands: Allstate reels in $12M for office-retail plaza in West Palm Beach

Allstate Investments cashed out of a West Palm Beach retail and office center it acquired nearly 30 years ago. The Northbrook, Illinois-based national asset management firm, which falls under the Allstate Corporation umbrella, sold the two-story Palm Gate Plaza at 3899 North Haverhill Road for $12.4 million, according to records. The buyer is an affiliate of…

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Chart: Inflation Watch 2021 Intra-Quarter Update; Inflation Expectations Climbing

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 5-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate, commonly referred to as the TIPS Spread, a measure of expected inflation derived from 5-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Securities and 5-Year Treasury Inflation-Indexed Constant Maturity Securities, for the 5 years ending 10/26/21

The 5-year TIPS spread, after almost calmly sitting a bit elevated over pre-pandemic levels, of a sudden spiked from its prior month close of 2.51% to 2.95% on October 25th. There has been much talk in the financial press of inflation pressures, but except for an initial move to the 2.5% range this has not registered in the TIPS. This may be but a blip itself, but of course most paying attention will assume the markets are now further discounting higher inflation.

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

~Ronald Reagan

Real Money at Stake

Real money is at stake with these spreads. TIPS pay interest every six months, based on a fixed rate that is calculated by multiplying the adjusted principal by one-half the calculated interest rate (i.e. half a year’s worth of inflation at that rate). Thus, a “bet” that an investor makes in with these bonds has real financial implications. If actual inflation is higher than priced in the markets, a TIPS buyer will make more that a straight treasury buyer. If it is lower, that TIPS buyer will make less. How much money is at stake? In 2017 Morningstar pegged the market at $1.2 trillion. Thus, every 1/10% difference is a $1.2 billion swing. That is real money by my count.

Generally on Inflation and Commercial Real Estate

What is the impact of inflation on commercial real estate? In the near term, higher inflation tends to bring higher interest rates. Higher interest rates are a negative for commercial real estate. Higher rates means larger debt service payments, reducing the buying power of purchasers, and negatively impacting deal economics. It also means makes fixed income investments a more competitive investment, likely pulling capitalization rates (cap rates) up, and thus prices down. Over a longer period, however, the prospect of inflation leads to a principal benefit of commercial property investment, that of its potential as a hedge against inflation. After all, more inflation should lead to higher rent, at least in time.

MIT published an excellent whitepaper on real estate’s ability to keep pace with inflation with data to 2016. They looked at then tendency of retail, multifamily, industrial, and office income and values to keep pace with inflation. The best at keeping pace income-wise was retail, with rent growth of 102% of inflation. Office was the worst performing at a quite dismal 18%. Values across the property types were more consistently kept pace, with retail again doing the best appreciating at 107% of inflation, office again the worst at 74% of inflation. I’ll speculate that the fairly drastic difference between income and value keeping pace with inflation is driven by vacancy. If you’re interested in the topic, read the paper.

Expectations for inflation also come into play with lease structure and due diligence. A lease structure with a fixed rent increase becomes less attractive for a landlord with higher inflation expectations. Similarly, a commercial property being acquired with existing leasing in place that have fixed or capped rent increases looks less attractive as inflation expectations increase. Also, a property being purchased with fixed rate financing will look increasingly attractive if a buyer anticipates inflation fueled increases in income. Inflation, in short, is very important to commercial property investors.

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Video: PwC Real Estate Leader Byron Carlock Discusses PwC & ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2022

In this video, the annual PwC – ULI (PricewaterhouseCoopers – Urban Land Institute) Emerging Trends Report, which is the result of surveying thousands of commercial real estate participants for their perspectives on the industry, is discussed with Byron Carlock, Real Estate Leader at PwC. Discussed are some of the most valuable takeaways from the report. Topics include top commercial real estate markets, promising commercial property sectors, and trends that are expected to impact various commercial real estate sectors, and finally risks to avoid and opportunities to exploit.

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Miami Commercial Real Estate News October 20, 2021: Wynwood Site Trades, Short Term Rentals Planned; Former Johnson & Wales Lots Flipped; More…

Rilea, Promanas buy Wynwood dev site, plan short-term rentals

The development site at 100 and 94 Northeast 29th Street and 101 Northeast 28th Street in Miami, Co-developer Rilea Group’s owner and CEO Alan Ojeda and president Diego Ojeda and co-developer Promanas Group’s president and CEO John Bogdasarian are pictured.  A short-term rental project with 127 units is coming to Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Developers…

PMG flips former Johnson & Wales lots in North Miami for $10M

Michael Newman (President & CEO, Golub & Co.), 1660 Northeast 127 Street and 12600 Northeast 17th Avenue highlighted behind are pictured. Property Markets Group cashed out of three former Johnson & Wales properties in North Miami that the company acquired over the summer. The New York and Miami-based luxury residential developer sold a vacant lot…

Developer Lissette Calderon’s $100M Apartment Project Tips Cap To Miami’s History

Lissette Calderon, one of Miami’s only female developers, is breaking ground on a new $100M multifamily project and naming it after the woman who founded the city, Julia Tuttle, a widow who in the 1890s persuaded railroad magnate Henry Flagler to extend tracks into Miami and build a hotel, thus triggering a development boom. The Julia, a 14-story, 323-unit…

Developer Asi Cymbal Has $1B In Projects In The Pipeline In South Florida

Asi Cymbal is a trained lawyer, a developer and a licensed general contractor, but after a few years on the development sidelines, he is back in a big way. Cymbal worked on prominent New York projects like Downtown by Philippe Starck before moving to Miami and developing several office, retail and restaurant projects in and around the Design District through…

New York developers unveil plan for South Beach office project

Two New York-based development firms are teaming up to build a Class A office project in Miami Beach. Sumaida + Khurana and Bizzi & Partners are planning a five-story building with 56,177 square feet at 944 5th Street and 411 Michigan Avenue in the city’s South of Fifth neighborhood, according to a press release. An entity managed by principals of…

KKR and Parkway Sign 74,000 SF Lease with Millennium Management at 1111 Brickell in Miami

KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Parkway Property Investments, LLC (“Parkway”) announced the signing of a long-term lease with Millennium Management (“Millennium”) for more than 74,000 square feet across three floors at 1111 Brickell, a 30-story Class A office tower located in the heart of Miami’s Brickell submarket. Millennium plans to staff the…

Washington Nationals Owner Buys Apartment Tower In Miami

Lerner Enterprises, the Rockville, Maryland-based investment firm that owns the Washington Nationals, has picked up a 25-story apartment building at 8400 South Dixie Highway in Miami, adding to its portfolio of Florida properties. Lerner, a 70-year-old company with a portfolio of offices and 5,000 multifamily units, mostly around Washington, D.C., bought…

Spanish Private Equity Giant Sets Sights On U.S. In Partnership With Miami-Based Exan Capital

A major European private equity firm is joining forces with a Miami-based fund manager, giving them both international capabilities. Azora Capital, based in Madrid, with €4B of assets under management, is teaming up with Exan Capital through a joint venture, Azora Exan. The new JV will focus…

Israel Englander’s Millennium Management inks 74K sf Brickell lease

Billionaire Israel Englander’s Millennium Management is the latest Northeastern financial firm to head to South Florida, with plans to open an office in Miami’s Brickell. New York-based Millennium Management inked a long-term, more than 74,000-square-foot lease at the Sabadell Financial Center at 1111 Brickell Avenue, where the hedge fund will open an…

Surfside collapse mediation hits standoff, as rival sides dig in heels on disbursements

Mediation talks on divvying up disbursements among victims of the Surfside condo collapse have hit a stalemate, revealing two opposing sides that pit survivors who lost their homes against those who lost loved ones. In total, roughly a dozen views have been expressed on how funds should be allocated. But ultimately, opinions fall into three major groups…

Wholesale club wins $4M in suit over shoddy construction at Flagler Station warehouse

The biggest membership warehouse club operator in Central America and the Caribbean won a roughly $4.4 million award in a lawsuit alleging faulty construction at its Flagler Station warehouse at 11441 Northwest 107th Street. PriceSmart claimed in its complaint that the concrete floor slab at its 323,494-square-foot facility at the sprawling industrial complex…

Nearly 20 Acres Of Heavy Truck Land In Hialeah Gardens Sells For $872,000 Per Acre

A New York-based company paid a combined $17.25 million in three deals for 19.78 acres of heavy truck parking land a t15701 NW 127th Avenue near Hialeah Gardens. Both properties are outside the Miami-Dade County Urban Development Boundary, meaning major development requiring water and sewer services is not permitted. However, truck parking…

Brightline testing Miami to West Palm Beach to be ready to roll

Brightline passenger rail service is back on track. Stalled by the global pandemic, the fledgling rail service is ready to get moving again and has announced a relaunch for November. Brightline, which bills itself as the only provider of modern, eco-friendly high-speed rail in America, began testing its full operating train schedule between West Palm Beach…

$40 Million Coral Gables Mobility Hub targets self-driving, electric vehicles

Coral Gables city commissioners got the opportunity to see official renderings and a glimpse of how the Coral Gables Mobility Hub is going to change and elevate the city into the future.  During last week’s city commission meeting, design and architecture firm Gensler presented in detail all the features the estimated $40 million mobility hub at…

Mexican owner of 32 aquatic parks wins Miami Seaquarium lease

County commissioners on Tuesday authorized assignment of the lease to operate and maintain the Miami Seaquarium on Virginia Key, a major county tourist attraction, from Festival Fun Parks LLC, a Delaware company, to MS Leisure Company Inc., a Florida corporation based in St, Augustine.  The parent of MS Leisure is The Dolphin Company…

Video: Atlanta Fed’s Brian Bailey Presents View on Commercial Real Estate 2021

Brian Bailey, Real Estate Subject Matter Expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, shares his view on the commercial real estate market, including retail and office properties, supply chain issues, inflation expectations and the jobs outlook. He talks about the effects of vaccination rates on manufacturing and issues with people not being yet able to reenter…

The Fed on How Widespread Price Increases May be in the U.S.

In the first blog post of this two-part series, I discussed the recent surge in inflation and identified some upside and downside risks for future inflation. In this second blog post, I will focus on evaluating whether higher inflation can be attributed to a small group of goods and services or whether it is a more generalized event. This exercise is motivated by…

Dan Gelber uncut: Miami Beach mayor caught on tape courting developers for Ocean Drive takeover

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and his predecessor, Philip Levine, courted unidentified developers to raise money for city commission candidates who favor Gelber’s agenda for Ocean Drive, and offered them carte blanche access to city staff for redevelopment proposals in the Art Deco Entertainment District. He also promised to push through unpopular…

Developers, Lenders Are Betting Big on Miami Multifamily

South Florida’s multifamily market continued its expansion—bolstered by in-migration from major metros and a business-friendly climate—throughout the health crisis. What’s more, private capital investors are cashing in, banks are closing on sizable construction loans and rental rates are on the rise. Lending and development power players in the area…

Don Peebles drops remaining $160M claims tied to Overtown development lawsuit

Don Peebles dropped his three pending claims for $160 million, ending his litigation alleging that he was duped out of developing in Miami’s Overtown. His decision came after his entity, Overtown Gateway Partners, which had filed the lawsuit last year, lost two counts over the course of the case. Following Overtown Gateway putting to rest all of its remaining…

Housing Trust Group Opens $25M Affordable Housing Community in Miami

Housing Trust Group (HTG) has opened Max’s Landing Apartments, a 76-unit affordable housing community located in the West Kendall neighborhood of Miami. The development cost was $25 million. Located at 8905 SW 169th Court, Max’s Landing Apartments is a three-story building with 56 one-bedroom, one-bath units and 20 two-bedroom, two-bath…

Ytech buys historic Nolan House in Brickell for $6M

A developer paid $6 million for the historic Nolan House, one of the few remaining original mansions that lined Miami’s Brickell Avenue in the 1920s. Ytech, a Miami-based company led by Yamal Yidios, bought the property at 1548 Brickell Avenue with renovation plans, according to a press release. Ytech declined to disclose its vision for the building…

Developer completes $70M Grand Station apartments — with A-Rod as an investor

The Grand Station Apartments tower is completed, built by a partnership that counts retired Yankees shortstop Alex Rodriguez as an investor. Residents have been moving into the 30-story, 300-unit downtown Miami building at 240 North Miami Avenue, according to developer Oscar Rodriguez. Rodriguez and his partner, Ricardo Vadia, both of…

Industrial space “effectively sold out” amid leasing frenzy, Prologis says

Global supply chain disruptions have sent industrial tenants into a leasing frenzy, pushing warehouse vacancy to unprecedented lows. Prologis’ portfolio was 98 percent leased and just under 97 percent occupied at the end of the third quarter, the San Francisco-based warehouse REIT reported Friday. Moreover, its development pipeline was already 70 percent…

Masoud Shojaee’s Shoma sells Doral apartments for $103M

Doug Andrews, Chairman, Avanti Residential; Masoud Shojaee, President & Chairman, SHOMA Group; Christian Garner, CEO, Avanti Residential; Sanctuary Apartment Complex at 9400 Northwest 41st Street, Doral, FL are pictured. Shoma Group sold its recently completed and fully leased Sanctuary apartment building in Doral for $102.5 million, marking…

Moishe Mana buys more land in Miami’s Allapattah

Moishe Mana is continuing to assemble land in Allapattah, as he says he is prioritizing his downtown Miami and Wynwood developments. Mana paid about $5 million for the industrial properties at 2300 to 2340 Northwest Seventh Avenue and 3100 Northwest Seventh Avenue in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, which is west of Wynwood and …

CRE survived Covid with flexibility, focus on convenience: report

Commercial real estate’s resilience through the pandemic hinged on its surprising flexibility and new focus on convenience — themes that will remain vital going forward, a report concludes. The industry held up far better than most professionals expected at the outset of the economic shutdown in March 2020, according to Emerging Trends in Real…

First-time fund managers bet $480M on self-storage across US

A pair of first-time real estate fund managers are betting half a billion dollars on the ever-resilient self-storage sector. Concord Wilshire, a Los Angeles-based developer, and Summit Investment Management, a Denver-based distressed debt investor, will put $480 million to work over the next four years buying and developing 40 self-storage facilities. The Miami…

End of eviction moratorium did not result in mass evictions

The mass eviction event feared by many when the federal moratorium ended in August has not come to pass — not yet, at least. Court eviction filings increased by 8.7 percent in the United States from August to September in more than 30 cities tracked by Princeton’s Eviction Lab. While that figure marks an increase, the Wall Street Journal reports the 36,796…

An alleged Miami Ponzi hustle

Like most alleged Ponzi schemes, a Miami-based troika’s plan to tap South American investors to fund their real estate projects started off with non-criminal, ambitious intentions. Ernesto Weisson, a Coconut Grove businessman and architect who spent time as a developer in his native Ecuador, teamed up with fellow Ecuadorian and financial manager…

Nuveen pays $110M for industrial buildings in Weston

Nuveen Real Estate bought two warehouses within the Weston Business Center for $110 million, marking the second biggest South Florida industrial deal this year. San Francisco-based real estate investment trust Prologis sold the properties at 2935 and 2945 West Corporate Lakes Boulevard, records show. The deal breaks down to $275 per square foot. Constructed…

Forte Capital Management buys Hollywood medical offices for $11M

Forte Capital Management bought a Hollywood medical office building adjacent to Memorial Regional Hospital South for $11 million. The Miami Beach-based company purchased the property at 3702 Washington Street, according to Chaim Cahane, president of Forte. A group of five doctors, including at least three with offices at the property, sold the building…

Pinnacle Housing to build affordable rentals in Hollywood

Rendering of the site on the southwest corner of Johnson Street and State Road 7 with the Regional vice president of Pinnacle Housing Timothy Wheat (Pinnacle Housing) Pinnacle Housing got the green light to build an eight-story, affordable apartment complex in the long-neglected U.S. 441 corridor in Hollywood, and may expand the project on an adjacent site.

From Macy’s to multifamily: Apartments planned for former department store site at Pompano Beach shopping center

Morgan Group won a land use change to develop 356 garden apartments on part of a shopping center in Pompano Beach, amid vacancies at the retail property. Houston-based Morgan plans to demolish a former Macy’s store and parking lot on a 12.1-acre site along the west side of Pompano Citi Centre, a shopping center on the southwest corner of Copans Road…

Crow Holdings pays $33M for Coral Springs’ Turtle Crossing

Michael Levy, CEO, Crow Holdings; Turtle Crossing Shopping Plaza, Coral Springs, FL (Crow Holdings, Google Maps, LoopNet) Crow Holdings bought the Turtle Crossing shopping plaza in Coral Springs for $32.5 million. A joint venture of Ross Realty Investments and SunCap Real Estate Investments sold the buildings at 5860-5884 and 5760-5772 Wiles Road as well as…

Art Falcone’s Encore Capital sells Plantation Walk office building for $58M

Vision Properties paid $57.5 million for the office building that is part of the Plantation Walk mixed-use development. Art Falcone’s Encore Capital Management, which developed Plantation Walk, sold the offices at 261 North University Drive, according to a news release. Records show the buyer, through an affiliate, took out a $37.4 million loan from…

Fort Lauderdale Beach hotel portfolio trades for $27M

Seven hotel properties at 3601, 3621, 3623, 3711, 3801, 3811 and 3821 North Ocean Boulevard on North Ocean Boulevard are bought for $27M. A family-owned, Coral Springs-based real estate investment firm is making a big splash in Fort Lauderdale Beach. Affiliates of LWHT Property Management, headed by Tom Assouline, paid a combined $27.2 million for six…

Rockpoint, InSite buy B Ocean Resort Fort Lauderdale for $127M

The beachfront B Ocean Resort Fort Lauderdale — formerly known as the Yankee Clipper — sold for $126.9 million, marking one of the biggest South Florida hotel deals this year. Boston-based Rockpoint Group and Fort Lauderdale-based InSite Group, through an affiliate, bought the 481-key resort for $117.9 million, records show. They paid an additional $9…

Jim Moran Foundation revs up Fort Lauderdale HQ plan with $10M site acquisition

A philanthropic organization founded by a late, prominent South Florida car dealer picked up an office development site for $9.8 million. The Jim Moran Foundation bought a 2.43-acre lot at 4545 North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, according to records. The foundation plans to start construction next year on a new 50,000-square headquarters…

Cutting costs: Via Mizner mixed-use project in Boca Raton scores $335M financing

Penn-Florida Companies nabbed $335 million in new financing for the luxury mixed-use development Via Mizner in Boca Raton. New York-based Blackstone Mortgage Trust provided a $195 million senior loan secured by 101 Via Mizner, a 14-story, 336-unit apartment building at 101 East Camino Real. In a separate $140 million mortgage deal, Toronto…

IRA Capital makes $16M medical office play in Boca Raton

An Irvine, California-based private equity firm that focuses on medical real estate bought an outpatient center in Boca Raton. IRA Capital paid $16 million for a nearly 3-acre site with a single-story office building at 501 West Glades Road, according to records. The buyer took out a $12 million mortgage with Siemens Financial Service. The property is fully leased…

JB Capital and partner pay $26M for Fresh Market-anchored Jupiter retail center

A three-year-old, Boston-based commercial real estate firm led a $25.5 million joint venture purchase of Fresh Market Village in Jupiter. JB Capital Management acquired the 55,046-square-foot retail center at 311 East Indiantown Road, in partnership with Royce Properties LLC, a Woodbury, Connecticut-based family office, according to a release. The seller is…

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Video: Atlanta Fed’s Brian Bailey Presents View on Commercial Real Estate 2021

Brian Bailey, Real Estate Subject Matter Expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, shares his view on the commercial real estate market, including retail and office properties, supply chain issues, inflation expectations and the jobs outlook. He talks about the effects of vaccination rates on manufacturing and issues with people not being yet able to reenter the workforce. He also provides thoughts and a personal opinion on inflation.

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