(Mark Your Calendars: RealShare Apartments 2011, October 20 in Los Angeles).
LOS ANGELES-Owners of apartment complexes totaling 2,635 units have financed them with more than $275 million in Freddie Mac loans arranged by the Los Angeles office of NorthMarq Capital. One borrower is Lake Forest, CA-based Advanced Real Estate Services, which refinanced a portfolio of 1,753 units in Southern California for $178 million, with cash out on all of the properties. The other deal was $97.1 million in acquisition financing for 882 units in Redmond, WA, for which NorthMarq did not name the borrower but a previous GlobeSt.com report and an announcement by the borrower identified it as a JV of Palo Alto-based Essex Property Trust called Wesco I LLC.