Essex Apartment Value Fund sold the upscale apartment community for about $69 million. In connection with the transaction, the buyer assumed a non-recourse secured mortgage of about $40 million, with a 7.99% fixed rate which matures in 2005.

The value fund purchased the asset in August of 2001 for $62 million and the net proceeds from the sale will be distributed to the fund's investors.

"We are pleased with the Fund's first full-cycle investment, providing a good start in achieving the fund's financial goals," says Keith R. Guericke, president and CEO of Palo Alto-based Essex Property Trust.

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