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Real Estate Almanac Debuts

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Research and advisory firm T3 Sixty has released the 2020 Real Estate Almanac. The 450-page annual printed report analyzes the core components of the residential real estate brokerage industry and organizes key data about them into five sections: leaders (SP 200), organized real estate (ORE 200), technology (Tech 500), enterprises (franchise brands and holding companies) and brokerages (Mega 1000). The resource gives industry executives insight into where the industry is, where it is headed and who is taking it there. The compendium includes 2,257 companies, organizations and leaders who excelled in 2019 and lead the industry in 2020. Research and compilation of the report’s data began in September 2019 and took more than 1,200 hours. It involved poring over companies’ year-end financials and reporting, numerous surveys, interviews, verification and some audits. T3 Sixty also uses its proprietary algorithms to test and benchmark data against industry parameters and regional standards.

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Pembrook Capital Management has provided a $12.4 million loan for the acquisition and rehabilitation of 100 Belmont Place and 101 Daniel Low Terrace in Staten Island. The two adjacent rent-stabilized apartment buildings house 12 apartment units. The buildings will be converted to long-term rent-regulated properties through New York City’s Article XI Tax Incentive Program. The plan is designed to encourage new construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing. The property will be subject to a 40-year Regulatory Agreement mandating its affordability at 55%-100% of area median income. In return, the city will give the borrower an Article XI tax abatement that will help safeguard the property’s fiscal stability for decades to come. The borrower plans to use the majority of the financing package to acquire the asset and will set aside $2.3 million of the funding to implement a comprehensive capital improvement program that will include exterior and interior renovations. Pembrook is a real estate investment manager that provides financing throughout the capital structure. The firm has originated or participated in investments totaling over $1.4 billion since it began investing in 2007.

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TermSheet, a private-equity backed real estate software company, has launched an end-to-end real estate deal management platform. The company provides investors with tools for prospecting, managing and executing real estate transactions. Designed to streamline the life cycle of a real estate transaction, TermSheet provides real estate investors with a platform that manages real estate investors’ pipelines, documents, tasks, contacts and data. TermSheet COO Sahil Rattan noted that the alternative solutions their startup offers can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but TermSheet can get investors started at no cost.

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Avenue5 Residential, a multifamily property management services firm, has named Lynn Owen as its executive vice president of client strategy. In this newly created role, Owen will lead Avenue5’s portfolio services and business development teams, broaden the firm’s suite of client services, make business optimization recommendations to clients and enhance underwriting and acquisition models to assist clients in evaluating investment opportunities. Owen brings decades of multifamily and commercial property management, asset management and construction management expertise to the new role. Before joining Avenue5, she held leadership roles at Compass Acquisition Partners and TruAmericaMultifamily, among other firms.

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FCP has acquired Tides at South Tempe for $71.5 million through a joint venture with Tides Equities, a real estate investment company focused on multifamily investments. The 442-unit apartment community is FCP’s first investment in Arizona. Tides at South Tempe is located close to Superstition Freeway and Interstate 10, proximate to major job centers, downtown Tempe, downtown Phoenix and the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The community features studio, one- and two-bedroom units with luxury touches, including hardwood flooring, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances and balconies or patios. FCP is a privately held real estate investment company based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, that has invested in or financed more than $6 billion in assets since its founding in 1999. FCP invests directly and with operating partners in commercial and residential assets.

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The nonprofit research and technology group First Street Foundation has publicly released flood risk data for more than 142 million homes and properties across the U.S. The data is based on decades of peer-reviewed research. It assigns every property in the contiguous U.S. a Flood Factor score from 1 to 10, based on its cumulative risk of flooding over a 30-year mortgage. The model was developed by more than 80 of the world’s leading hydrologists, researchers and data scientists from First Street Foundation; Columbia University; Fathom; George Mason University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rhodium Group; Rutgers University; The University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Bristol. Building upon their decades of peer-reviewed research and model outputs, as well as data from FEMA, the USGS, NOAA and other government agencies, the collaborators were able to create the country’s first publicly available comprehensive flood risk model. The model identifies the likelihood of previous flooding by recreating 55 past hurricanes, tropical storms, nor’easters and major inland flooding events. A lack of disclosure laws in many states makes this information difficult or impossible to find. The model also calculates the current probability of tidal, storm surge, pluvial (rainfall) and fluvial (riverine) flooding for individual homes and properties. In addition to current risk, future risk is calculated by incorporating anticipated environmental changes like sea-level rise, changing precipitation patterns, and warming sea surface and atmospheric temperatures.