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Bisnow Deal Sheet :: Carriage House Lofts
Kiser Group’s Brian Semel repped both parties in the closing of Carriage House Lofts (shown), a historic seven-story, 81-unit multifamily property at 1545 S State, for $20.25M. The building was built in 1898 and underwent renovations in 1996. The new owner, The Laramar Group, plans to upgrade the building.
read moreSpotlight Interview: Lee Kiser: Principal/Managing Broker, Kiser Group
Leavitt Digital interviews Kiser Group's Principal and Managing Broker, Lee Kiser.
read moreRPBG October Meeting
RPBG October meeting is on Tuesday, October 27th. There will be two separate panels discussing property tax increases and cable services.
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Crain’s: Century-old South Loop apartment building sells for $20 million
Kiser Group Senior Director Brian Semel represented the buyer and seller in the sale of Carriage House Lofts.
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IREJ :: This year’s multi-family activity surpasses 2014 in just half the time
Bill Baumann, Senior Managing Director at Kiser Group is seeing much of the same. He said the incredible demand for multi-family today is across a spectrum of investor types - from opportunistic to value-add, to core investors....
read moreRPBG September Meeting
RPBG September meeting on Tuesday, September 29th celebrates the launch of new Sullivan classroom which was spearheaded by Senior Director at Kiser Group, Brian Semel.
read moreCrain’s: Goldman Sachs puts foreclosed Glenview shopping center up for sale
It suffered through the downturn because it did not have a true anchor,” said Lee Kiser, principal and managing broker at Chicago-based real estate firm Kiser Group, which brokered the sale of Carillon Square in 2008 and 2003. “In 2008, when it sold it was still Blockbuster (video store) and that drew a lot of people in, but that was a dinosaur . . . I don't think they've had a good anchor there since that would draw people into the center.”
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RPBG Makes Commitment to Sullivan High School
Senior Managing Director at Kiser Group, Brian Semel, is in charge of the fundraising efforts to convert a classroom into a functioning apartment within the school, complete with a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and laundry room. This space will be used to teach kids who are part of Sullivan’s longstanding and successful “low-incidence” program. “Low-incidence” refers to disabilities that are relatively uncommon in the general population; blindness, deafness and autism are all considered low-incidence disabilities. Because they are relatively uncommon, not every school in the CPS system has this type of program...
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IREJ’s Metro-Chicago Apartment Summit State of the Market Panel Recap
What neighborhoods outside of the downtown Class A market are showing the most strength in terms of investment interest and rent growth? Bill Baumann, Senior Managing Director at Kiser Group, shared that there are a few areas where he’s seen really strong growth—the first being the West Loop.
read moreRPBG Market Update – March 2015
Chicago and the Eastern United States have just experienced a record cold February. But, where the economy is concerned, it feels a lot more like July. Yet, despite the strong jobs and employment reports released on Friday March 6th, or perhaps because of them, the markets are in retreat. This is true for both the equity and bond markets and has made for a surprisingly ugly finish to a day that, ostensibly, got off to a really good start...
read moreCrain’s: New York firm acquires Albany Park apartments
Crain's features an Albany Park deal brokered by Bill Baumann and Mike Anguiano of Kiser Group.
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IREJ: Kiser Group’s Bill Baumann
Cap rates in the multifamily arena seem to be one of the biggest conversations right now as they are at historic lows. Some experts think cap rates could go even lower in 2015, according to Multifamily Executive. Kiser Group’s Senior Managing Director, Bill Baumann, had some enlightening comments in that recent feature discussing the cap rate limbo. Baumann will also share his state of the market outlook at Illinois Real Estate Journal‘s Apartment Summit on March 10th. But before he does that, we wanted to share a couple of cool facts about him with you…
read moreMultifamily Executive: Cap Rate Limbo: How Low Can They Go?
“When you look at the recent rent data, coupled with the demographic and lifestyle trends, people aren’t thinking about what they’ll do if they have to get to the sidelines quickly,” says Bill Baumann, senior managing director at Chicago-based brokerage Kiser Group, (no affiliation with Kiser Institutional Group). “They’ve got a much bigger fear of missing out on the ride in the first place.”
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Metro Chicago Apartment Summit
Kiser Group's Senior Managing Director Bill Baumann will be speaking at the Metro-Chicago Apartment Summit Tuesday, March 10th at Germania Place.
read moreBisnow Deal Sheet :: January 20, 2015
Bisnow highlights several recent Kiser Group closings in this week's deal sheet.
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