Three Orange County offices and an industrial park are trading hands this month, as part of nearly $160 million in Southern California sales by Newport Beach-based investor ZMI Real Estate Inc.
ZMI Real Estate, a privately held firm led by President Stephen Zotovich, sold off the four properties, totaling more than 640,000 square feet, in two transactions.
In the larger deal,$125 million,ZMI Real Estate sold a 384,815-square-foot office portfolio to Los Angeles-based Jamison Properties Inc., a privately owned investment group.
A separate $34.5 million deal saw ZMI Real Estate selling a 257,637-square-foot industrial park to Boston-based investor Colony Realty Partners LLC.
The two sales consisted of the majority of ZMI Real Estate’s holdings, said Kevin Shannon, vice chairman for the Torrance office of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., who brokered the two deals.
The investor has been a more active seller than buyer locally as of late. Last year, ZMI Real Estate sold a 12-building, 251,219-square-foot portfolio of industrial buildings to San Juan Capistrano-based Birtcher Anderson Realty LLC for $29 million.
ZMI Real Estate is likely to be on the hunt for acquisitions, both in Southern California and Arizona, Shannon said.
The office holdings sold to Jamison Properties traded hands at about $325 per square foot. It includes six offices, including three buildings in OC.
Local properties include the 58,370-square-foot Tustin Corporate Plaza, an office and medical building at 1401 N. Tustin Ave. in Santa Ana.
Also trading hands: two buildings in Newport Beach totaling about 56,000 square feet, 1151 Dove Street and 1000 Quail Street. The two-story Quail Street property includes ZMI Real Estate’s headquarters.
For more on this story, see the Sept. 10 issue of the Business Journal.
