Los Angeles

A partnership of Capri Capital Partners and TruAmerica Multifamily just completed the larges multifamily, mixed-use transaction in the state of California for the current year. The partnership closed on a deal worth $283 million, for the recently completed The Vernon high-rise apartment complex in the Los Angeles submarket of Koreatown. Property management duties at the complex will be carried out by Lincoln Property Company, the entity being hand-picked by the new ownership group.

KB Homes has unveiled two new communities in the Playa Vista submarket. The company, one of the largest home builders in the United States, recently presented its plans for Skylar and Asher, two communities totaling 129 new residential units that will be added to the area’s housing stock upon completion.

Four buildings in downtown Pasadena were recently part of a $42.6 million mixed-use deal as Old Pasadena Collection traded hands between two private investors. A team of representatives from real estate company Institutional Property Advisors arranged the sale on behalf of both parties.

An affordable housing community catering to seniors was recently sold by the Christ Unity Church in a deal worth approximately $22.5 million. The property in question is Christ Unity Manor in Koreatown, an asset that waited approximately 15 months, eight months of which the property spent in escrow, to be traded. The sale was handled by real estate brokerage Colliers International. Although a large number of companies inquired about the property, the winning bid belonged to Vitus Group.

MacFarlane Partners has recently completed the acquisition of a high-profile development site located in the growing residential market of downtown Los Angeles. The developer has two residential buildings line up for the piece of land, as well as a retail component and large amounts of open space. The buyer acquired the development site from Africa-Israel USA, in a deal brokered by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank representatives from New York and Los Angeles.

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor A major retail development project in Huntington Beach recently received a serious fund injection as developer DJM landed approximately $93 million in financing. The funds were arranged by George Smith Partners Principal and Managing Director Steve Bram and Senior Vice President David Pascale. The funding is divided between a $56.5 […]

One of the most active commercial real estate companies in the Los Angeles market has unveiled plans for a large creative media mixed-use office campus at the recent Hollywood Economic Development Summit. Kilroy Realty Corporation will be developing its proposed project known as The Academy on a site acquired in Q4 of 2013 from The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The site is an entire Los Angeles city block located between Vine Street, DeLongpre Avenue, Ivar Avenue and Homewood Avenue.

International real estate firm Hines recently announced the purchase of Brea Place, a sprawling office campus that also includes a plot of mixed-use development land, part of its ongoing partnership with Oaktree Capital Management. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed to the press.