Austin Developer Greenlit to Build Apartment Units at Former School Site
Why this matters
Multifamily has been the most actively underwritten sector through the rate cycle, with cap rate compression resuming in Sun Belt and gateway markets as 2024-2025 deliveries roll off and refinance demand on 2021-vintage bridge loans clears. Transaction velocity is up modestly, concentrated in stabilized Class A and grocery-adjacent garden assets. Austin is working through a multi-year supply digestion in both multifamily and office. Land values east of I-35 continue to hold despite slower entitlement activity. Allocators continue to favor residential for its income durability and its insulation from secular demand questions that still hang over commercial sectors.
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OHT Partners was recently greenlit by the Austin City Council for a zoning change to build a 435-unit apartment complex on the site of a former Austin school. The site under consideration is where the shuttered Roseda…
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