Plans are underway to convert 40 Exchange Place, a 20-story office building at the corner of Exchange Place and William Street in the Financial District, into 382 rental apartments. The development will include a mix of market-rate and affordable units, along with ground-floor retail space and amenities for residents. According to a Newmark press release, Derby Lane has provided $191.5 million in construction financing, arranged by Newmark, to support GFP Real Estate's office-to-residential conversion at 40 Exchange Place.
A Walnut Creek apartment complex with hundreds of units has been bought by an East Coast real estate firm in a deal that points to sturdy prices for multifamily residential properties in the Contra Costa County city. The 285-unit Hanover Walnut Creek apartment property, located at 3050 Del Hombre, has been purchased for $163 million by a TA Realty affiliate, documents filed on Oct. 7 with the Contra Costa County Recorder's Office show.
The Dwight apartment complex in downtown Berkeley was bought by an East Bay real estate investment firm that seeks to create affordable housing for the region's workforce. An affiliate of Riaz Capital paid $37.8 million for the seven-story building at 2121 Dwight Way, according to documents filed on Sept. 5 with the Alameda County Recorder's Office. The purchase price was about 20% below the property's value in January, as calculated by the Alameda County Assessor's Office.
Creating garage space would increase the number of homes capable of EV charging from 31 million to more than 50 million. And when we include houses where the owner thinks it's feasible to add wiring, that grows to more than 72 million homes. And that's far more than Telemetry's most optimistic estimate of US EV penetration for 2035, which ranges from 33 million to 57 million EVs on the road 10 years from now.
