JLL has arranged equity placement for The Residences at Lexington, a 382-unit garden-style multifamily development project in De Soto, Kansas.
JLL represented Alcove Development. The investor was Red Starr Investments. The Residences at Lexington, located at 34040 W 90th Cir., is positioned close to both the new 4.7 million-square-foot Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant and the $895 million expansion of Merck Animal Health’s manufacturing facility.
The Residences at Lexington, a two- and three-story garden-style community, will offer 325,811 square feet of rentable space across 382 units. JLL’s Capital Markets Debt Advisory team was led by Director Kevin Barron.
“The successful arrangement of equity for The Residences at Lexington highlights the strong demand for multifamily housing in this rapidly growing area,” said Barron. Alcove Development, a local real estate development company with extensive experience in the De Soto market, plans to complete construction in October 2026, with the first units delivered in June 2025.
Multifamily owners with loans coming due are faced with higher refinancing costs. While this isn’t news, Newmark put numbers to the issue, indicating that loans maturing in Q3 2026 carried an average interest rate of 4.04%, compared to 5.69% on new loans at an average cap rate of 5.5%, resulting in negative leverage. At the...
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An increase in mortgage rates is cooling home sales, with multifamily the biggest beneficiary, according to John Chang, senior vice president at Marcus & Millichap. In a recent video, Chang said that the 10-year Treasury has risen by more than 100 basis points, and the 30-year mortgage rate is up about 130 bps to the...
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The city of Revere is eying a large redevelopment plan that would create 1,700 new affordable and market-rate homes about five miles northeast of downtown Boston. The Revere Housing Authority presented a proposal to the Revere City Council last week requesting a zoning change that would allow for development on a 40-acre site at Cooledge...
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