Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has closed the sale of Westfield Santa Anita, a super-regional mall totaling 1.5 million sq. toes in Arcadia, Calif.
The $537.5 million disposition represents the biggest sale value paid for a mall inside the U.S. during the last 4 years, in keeping with Eastdil Secured, which suggested the vendor.
The customer, a but unnamed, however “established business actual property investor” with a retail footprint in Southern California funded the acquisition by way of fairness funding in addition to mortgage debt. The Class A property final traded in late 1998, when URW paid $80 million for the multi-tenant asset, CommercialEdge knowledge reveals.
Westfield Santa Anita was 96 % leased on the time of the sale, with tenant gross sales reaching 93 % of their 2019 values within the first half of the yr.
In line with Chris Hoffmann, managing director at Eastdil Secured, the transaction bodes effectively for the mall trade as a complete because it additional demonstrates the personal capital market’s recognition of the numerous enchancment within the sector’s operational efficiency. “We see curiosity in proudly owning high-quality and irreplaceably situated malls as more and more diversifying,” he mentioned in ready remarks.
Within the second quarter, complete emptiness charges for super-regional and regional malls throughout Los Angeles County reached 9.8 %, whereas retail belongings inside the identical class within the Inland Empire had a 14.8 % emptiness fee. Nevertheless, each areas have been outperformed by Orange County, which had a 3.5 % emptiness fee, Colliers knowledge reveals.
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In the meantime, the whole emptiness fee throughout all retail property varieties in Los Angeles County plateaued at 6.1 %, with unfavourable web absorption of 170,866 sq. toes and common asking lease charges rising barely to $2.87 per sq. foot, in keeping with Colliers.
A Class A brilliant-regional mall
Situated at 400 S. Baldwin Ave. on greater than 79 acres, Westfield Santa Anita affords valet parking, complimentary wheelchairs to handle mobility wants, a household lounge, a play area, amongst different companies. The 23-building property was accomplished in a number of phases between 1974 and 2009.
The three-digit checklist of tenants contains Nordstrom, Zara, MAC, Lululemon, Macy’s and H&M, amongst others. Westfield Santa Anita is lower than a mile from Interstate 210, some 6 miles from Interstates 10 and 605. Downtown Los Angeles is lower than 18 miles southwest.
