Champion Real Estate Company has acquired a portfolio of six student housing communities encompassing 292 units and 524 beds near Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, for $42.26 million.

The communities are located at 635 Abbot Road, 129 Burcham Drive and 731-787 Burcham Drive.

This is the first acquisition for Champion Real Estate Company in Michigan but fourth student housing community purchase in 2021. Champion MSU, a subsidiary of Champion, will begin immediately on a complete rebrand and gut renovation of the student housing communities.

Stewart Hayes of JLL represented Champion Real Estate Company as well as the sellers.

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Student housing operators were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to a report issued Monday by the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC).

The 2021 NMHC Student Housing Income and Expense Survey includes detailed descriptive statistics for the 2020 calendar year income and expense statements of 953 private off-campus student housing properties, encompassing nearly 185,000 units and 529,000 beds across 47 states.

In 2020, many properties incurred higher vacancy costs and offered increased concessions in order to attract tenants.

Among a set of same-store properties, vacancy expenses as a percentage of gross potential rent increased between 2018 and 2020 by a median of 1.4 percentage points.

More specially, a majority (61.5 percent) of properties recorded an increase in vacancy costs over the two- year period. Similarly, nearly half (44 percent) of properties increased their concession offerings as a percentage of GPR over the last two years, compared to just 28.1 percent of properties that lowered their concessions (the remaining 27.9 percent of properties did not offer concessions in either 2018 or 2020).

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FAMILY-OWNED INVESTOR CHAMPION BACK IN OC
By Katie Murar | Monday, April 19, 2021

A private Los Angeles investor has paid $44.4 million for a 100-unit, 346-bed student housing community near Cal State University, Fullerton… (Read Article)

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L.A.-based Champion Real Estate Company has acquired a 47-unit, potential 102-bed, student housing community located at 2353 Portland St. in Los Angeles from Century Park, LLC for $14.1 million.

Champion will rename the property ‘Victory on Portland’. It is the third addition to the company’s student-housing portfolio near the University of Southern California campus.

Work will begin immediately on a complete overhaul of the 1964-constructed apartment complex. The renovation will consist of modernizing unit interiors with new stainless steel appliances, HVAC units, stone countertops, modern cabinetry and laminate wood flooring in each unit.  Champion will also fully furnish the units to include beds, couches, chairs, coffee tables, dining tables, flat screen televisions, cable, Internet, WiFi, Sonos soundbars and other amenities.

John Taksa of RE/MAX Commercial & Investment Realty represented Champion and the seller.

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Champion Real Estate Co. has acquired Valleywood Apartments, a 42-unit multifamily property in Northridge, for $14.9 million.

The Brentwood company, which purchased the property from an undisclosed private owner, also announced plans for Valleywood Apartments LLC, a subsidiary of Champion, to invest $2.3 million into capital improvements. The complex was formerly called Willows Apartments.

The property is located at 17806 Lassen St. and features six one-bedroom/one-bathroom units and 36 two-bedroom/two-bathroom units.

Renovations, which will begin immediately, include new countertops, flooring, cabinets, stainless steel appliances and washer and dryers.

The company will also make improvements the courtyard pool deck area as central amenity space.

In addition to these cosmetic improvements, Champion will undertake large-scale infrastructure repairs to the plumbing and electrical systems, plus roof replacement. The company added that it intends to hold onto and manage the property.

“Champion was attracted to this community because of its proximity to California State University – Northridge, which has the largest undergraduate population of the 23-campus Cal State University System,” said Champion Real Estate Company Senior Vice President Garrett Champion. “CSUN has transformed from a commuter school to a traditional university with students seeking a correlative lifestyle reflecting that change, which includes campus-adjacent housing.”

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Champion Real Estate Co. CEO Bob Champion said the state is seeing a housing shortfall of 3.5 million to 4 million units, a number that could grow to 6 million units by 2030. Champion estimates Los Angeles needs to manufacture 2 million units of housing in the next 10 years to keep up with demand. He said currently the city is only producing 22,000 units of the 180,000 units needed annually to meet the minimum demand…. “It’s not an affordability problem,” Champion said. “It’s a supply problem. The lack of supply is pushing up the cost of housing in areas that are most desirous to live.”

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CBRE announced that Supertoro and HiroNori Craft Ramen have signed leases at Brick Works, a retail collective in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Zachary Card, Erik Krasney and Jamie Rogers of CBRE represented the landlord, Champion Real Estate Company, in the lease agreement. Located in the heart of Echo Park at 1485-1501 W. Sunset Boulevard, Brick Works is a new adaptive reuse development, comprised of several transformed mid-century buildings with more than 15,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

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In January 2019, Champion SLU, LLC successfully completed the refinance of the Acquisition Bridge Loan with the Senior Refinance Loan. We are excited to own Union Bay Apartments over the long term. The property is a low leverage, Class A property in the core South Lake Union submarket with strong and growing annual cash distributions with forecasted continued asset appreciation.

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In 2019, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy celebrates its 90th anniversary. This momentous occasion represents a major milestone in the history of the School. At an awards dinner earlier this week, Bob Champion was recognized as a Price Pioneer in Real Estate development. A video showing those recognized can be found here.

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