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Construction starts on $80M apartments in Chesterfield
The developer of an estimated $80 million apartment building in Chesterfield County’s Springline at District 60 mixed-use development broke ground at the site on Sept. 28. The James at Springline will have 298 apartments and 28,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. Connecticut-based Collins Capital Partners is the lead[...]
Hampton Roads real estate veteran to retire
Lisa Chandler, president and principal broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Property Management, announced her retirement Wednesday. Chandler will leave at the end of October after more than 40 years in real estate. Berkshire Hathaway and Virginia Beach-based Rose & Womble Realty merged in March, bringing more [...]
Hampton industrial site sells for $2.3M
A vacant industrial site on 2.8 acres in Hampton has been sold for $2.3 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer said. Moir Park Industrial III LLC purchased the site, which includes warehouses, from Armistead & Riprap for development. The property is located at 402 Rip Rap Road off Interstate 64. Robert L. Phillips Jr.,[...]
Space race
Leaders of a regional engineering firm figured finding office space in the Town Center of Virginia Beach would be a breeze. Newspapers were reporting that demand for offices was down nationally. But that isn’t the case in the Hampton Roads area, where the office vacancy rate was 8.1% for the first quarter of 2023, according [&[...]
Residential roller coaster
Last year began on a high note for the Hampton Roads residential real estate market, with home prices and apartment rents soaring. According to the Real Estate Information Network, monthly median rent costs rose 20.4% compared with 2021, with median rents of $1,800. But by the fourth quarter of 2022, rent growth slowed and sales[...]
August NoVa home price growth outpaces national rate
Home prices grew faster in Northern Virginia than nationally in August, according to a Northern Virginia Association of Realtors report released Monday. The Northern Virginia market also had lower inventory than the nationwide market, but sales declined in both markets. “Despite mortgage rate increases, demand for housing is o[...]
Henrico office building sells for $66M
Richmond-based Kinsale Insurance has sold a 291,000-square-foot Class A office building on Staples Mill Road in western Henrico County for $66 million. The office, located at 2103 Staples Mill Road, was sold to Salus Federal Properties, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based limited liability company, commercial real estate firm Newm[...]
Henrico shopping center sells for $18.4M
Merchant’s Walk Shopping Center in Henrico County has sold for $18.4 million. Qi Lin, a local investor who in 2022 purchased the Southpark shopping center in Chesterfield County for $5.4 million, purchased Merchant’s Walk, according to Divaris Real Estate. Located at 7580 W. Broad St., Merchant’s Walk is at the[...]
NoVa home prices increase, Hampton Roads sees inventory boost
Median home prices in Northern Virginia continue to increase, hitting $700,000 in August, an 11.6% percent increase over the previous year, according to the latest report from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. At the same time, year-over-year sales declined, decreasing 12.4% from August 2022, but month-over-month sales increased as the summer reaches its end. […]
Glen Allen shopping center sells for $9.5M
A shopping center anchored by a Michaels craft store in Glen Allen sold for $9.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced. Airport Hotel LLC, of Ellicott City, Maryland, bought Broad Street Plaza, located at 9856-9864 W. Broad St. in Henrico County, on Sept. 12. The four-tenant retail center is 100% leased and incl[...]
Fed Fifth District economy grows slightly
The economy in the Federal Reserve’s Fifth District (a multistate region including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland) grew slightly in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, released Wednesday. Published eight times per year, the Beige Book is ba[...]
Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer hire Richmond VP
Brian Felton has joined Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Richmond office as a first vice president focused on industrial sales and leasing, the real estate firm announced Tuesday. Felton was previously a senior leasing manager with San Francisco-based Prologis, where he oversaw a 3.6 million-square-foot portfolio of indus[...]
