Multifamily Investors Attracted to Bay Area Submarkets for Mid-Market Buys

SAN FRANCISCO and OAKLAND CA, May 8, 2019 – JLL multifamily experts recently completed the sale of two apartment buildings in hot Bay Area residential submarkets, indicating an attractiveness for midmarket apartment buys among multifamily investors and a growing willingness to sell among long-time owners.

The two buildings – 2640 Greenwich St. in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood and Perkins Manor at 270 Perkins Street in Uptown Oakland’s Adams Point neighborhood – were both owned separately by private families. Neither building had changed hands in more than thirty years. Stephen Jackson and Joe Owens of JLL represented both sellers.

“Bay Area apartments continue to have wide appeal among investors and this is prompting more long term owners to unlock the value in their assets through a sale,” said Stephen Jackson, Senior Vice President, JLL.

2640 Greenwich St. is a seventeen unit multifamily property built in 1964. The building was purchased by Ballast Investments for $10.515M or $618,529 per unit.

Perkins Manor is a 26-unit, property built in 1966. It was purchased by a venture between two Oakland-based investors, Rubenstein Capital and Friedkin Investments, for $7.9M or $303,846 per unit. 

JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers. The firm’s in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients — whether a sale, financing, repositioning, advisory or recapitalization execution. In 2017 alone, the firm’s 2,000 Capital Markets specialists completed $170 billion in investment sale and debt and equity transactions globally.

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