Bronx, NY Wavecrest Equities has purchased a portfolio of five buildings in the Little Italy section of the city for $28 million and assumed two existing loans on the properties totaling $20 million.
The Belmont-Venezia Apartments are a 160,537 s/f project-based Section 8 portfolio comprised of five separate buildings within one quarter mile of each other. The buildings that consist of a total of 180 apartments and two commercial spaces include: 2404-2416 Crotona Ave., 2476 Hughes Ave. and 2431 Belmont Ave. It sold for a cap rate of 5.85%, $174 per s/f and 156,000 per unit.
Rosewood Realty Group’s Ben Khakshoor and Alex Fuchs represented both Wavecrest and the undisclosed seller.
New York tri-state multifamily investors are increasingly reallocating capital to less-regulated markets across the U.S. as rent control and legislative risk erode returns at home. With over 60% of New York City’s rental housing stock classified as rent-stabilized, the traditional value-add model — buying under-performing buildings,