Multifamily 2-8 Unit Market Update

This is Jonathan Aceves with an update on Multifamily Transactions in the 2-8 Unit Space for 2019.  Here’s the Spreadsheet: 4th Quarter Market Report.   

 

Overall, the market was steady in small multifamily for the year.   The average price per door was $58,256, with an average Gross Rent Multiplier of 7.56.  Anecdotally, we have seen overall interest in Downtown multifamily increase significantly.  

Downtown, we’re seeing rents increasing, and I think this is helping to drive investors to renovate buildings and put make new product available.  The 8-unit complex we sold on Fourth Street I don’t think would have sold two years ago, but rising rents made the property compelling for an investor willing to upgrade the units and reposition the property to students and young professionals.  

 

We reviewed 36 transactions from 2-8 Units, with an average of $58,256 per door, and an average GRM of 7.56.  Average price per foot was 64.07. We did find that GRM went down slightly over the year.  There was one outlier, and when removed the Average GRM was 7.77. 

 

We’ve shown Days on Market by this box and whisker graph, and it shows that 50% of all transactions closed betwen 50-150 days.  There were some transactions that closed over a much longer period, one over 300 days and one at over 700 days.  The overall average was 116 Days.  I think what this shows is that if priced correctly and adequately marketed a multifamily property should close within 4-5 months.  

 

My experience has been that if priced correctly, a multifamily property in this category should go under contract relatively quickly.  We tend to suggest pricing a property with a fair margin to an investor, using market financing assumptions.  Here’s a simple spreadsheet you can use to help think through a multifamily deal: Basic Multifamily Underwriting Worksheet.  

Thanks for reading!  What do you make of the numbers?  What’s your opinion of the market?  

 

 

 

Downtown Market Update–3rd Quarter 2019

It looks like the market in Downtown Augusta is continuing to improve!  There have been some notable sales downtown, with murmurings of decent deals being considered and hunted for.  It appears that the investors are bullish on Downtown, and that prices have not peaked.  It also appears that although there is talk of a recession, most people don’t believe Augusta will be significantly impacted.  It appears that some notable buildings are potentially transacting–Bonnie Ruben has put her portfolio on the market, and the Lamar building and the Marion building are both said to be under contract.  Ironwood Apartments sold the first week of August, and 1500 apartments are either just delivered or in development.  

 

Recent Notable Sales:

714 Broad Sold to Rafy Bassali at $39.66 per foot

1109 Broad: Security Federal bought the Geneological society for $900,000, or $126.30 per foot

1361 Broad: The Kendrick Group bought this at $170,000, or 42.92 Per foot

401 Greene: Heard Robertson purchased the building at 401 Greene Street to develop into Apartments

701 Greene:  Street sold for 2.5M from DWT Properties (Donnie Thomson) to Greene St Real Estate Investments.  

46 Thirteenth Street–the new Domino’s Pizza sold to Lead Dog LLC

 

Recent Notable Leases:  Notable leases include

Toaste of Augusta @ 722 Broad

State Farm @ 1126 Broad Street

Constantine Engineering @ 608 Broad

Best Lawyers at 801 Broad. 

Not included in the report are leases from the GA Cyber center.  

 

Here’s links to some of our downtown listings:

305 Eighth Street

822 Broad Street

1427 Broad Street

1295 Broad Street

King Mill Industrial

502 Greene Street

 

What are you seeing downtown?  What are your thoughts about the downtown market?  Are there transactions or activity that we’ve missed?  

 

Lease Report

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Sale Report:

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