January 25, 2021 12:00 PM
Newmark announces the sale of the Midwest MHC Portfolio, a 21-property, 2,789-site manufactured home community portfolio located throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The $100 million portfolio had a physical occupancy of 83 percent.
Newmark Executive Managing Director Andrew Shih and Senior Managing Director Todd Fletcher, co-founders of Newmark’s Manufactured Housing Group, in cooperation with local brokers, represented an undisclosed seller. The Midwest MHC Portfolio traded to buyer, OZ Impact Funds, a Salt Lake City-based private investment group focused on acquiring and rehabilitating distressed manufactured home communities. The $100 million acquisition increased OZ Impact Funds’ portfolio by 30 percent.
“Our institutional client created a lot of value in filling sites and transforming operations at the properties over the last few years, but they eventually decided they were not going to remain long-term in these markets,” said Shih. “It allowed this private fund buyer an opportunity to quickly gain scale in their fast-growing portfolio.”
“While this attractive five-state portfolio was stabilized near 80 percent occupancy, it still provides value-add upside through filling sites, kick-started by the vacant park-owned home portfolio that came with the sale,” added Fletcher.
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, due to the global pandemic slowing construction, the U.S. is experiencing a shortage of more than seven million homes for extremely low-income renters. Every state and metropolitan area across the nation faces a shortage with only 36 affordable and available rental homes existing on average for every 100 extremely low-income renter households.
“By acquiring these 2,789 sites across the Midwest, OZ Impact Funds hopes to help ease the gap of affordable housing by improving the communities and providing safe, clean living for low-income renters,” said Shih.
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