A partnership of Legal & General’s (L&G) asset management division and Taurus Investment Holdings acquired Lynnfield Commons, a 200-unit garden-style apartment community in Lynnfield, MA, within the North Shore submarket of Boston. The seller was John M. Corcoran & Company (JMC), which developed and built the property in 2009. The purchase price was not disclosed.
JMC will stay on as property manager for Lynnfield Commons. “With more than 70 years in property operations, JMC is able to deliver seamless solutions as a third-party manager and that segment of our business is growing,” said Bob Ruzzo, EVP of JMC’s property management arm.
The acquisition is the second U.S. multifamily deal the L&G/Taurus partnership has made in under a year, following Arkadia in Chicago’s West Loop. “Multifamily continues to be one of the strongest performing real estate sectors in the U.S., and by leveraging our strategic partnership with Taurus, we are meeting significant investor demand for exposure to this market,” said Bill Hughes, head of private markets, asset management, L&G.
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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