“The city will be rolling out the red carpet sometime next year for Edwardsville Town Center and Whispering Heights, part of a long-term plan to attract millennials to the city.” Click the link below to read more about Edwardsville’s newest developments. Click Here for Original Article

Fireside Financial made front-page news in the Advantage today discussing our $28 million project, Whispering Heights. This 6-floor complex will feature retail space on the first floor and 152 residential units of the remaining 5 floors which will be available from millennial’s to seniors. Whispering Heights will include amenities such as a residential fitness center, private parking, as well as offer self-contained living for the residents convenience. Click Here for Original Article

 The buildings, at 12200 and 12250 Weber Hill Road, total more than 109,000 square feet of Class A office space with lease rates of about $23 per square foot.   Click Here for Original Article

Michael Bailey’s Fireside Financial, a private equity firm based in Edwardsville, has acquired Madison at Aspen Woods, a 452-unit apartment complex in Florissant, for $28.5 million. Equus Capital Partners was the seller. Berkadia provided the buyer a fixed-rate, 10-year loan with a 30-year amortization. Berkadia’s Mid Markets team — which includes Senior Directors David Gaines and Alex Blagojevich, Director Michael Sullivan and Associate Director Patrick Sullivan along with Berkadia’s Andrea Kendrick and Ken Aston — helped

Michael Bailey, an Edwardsville, Illinois-based private equity manager, has raised $25 million for a limited liability company called FREP Debt I, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The money came from a single, undisclosed investor. The funds, Bailey said, will be used to buy commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) tied to multifamily housing development commercial loans. “(CMBS) are somewhat out of favor right now, but we see it getting back into favor

Michael Bailey’s Fireside Financial, a private equity firm based in Edwardsville, has launched a third real estate investment fund. And already, $75 million of the planned $500 million fund has been raised, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bailey said the rest of the money is likely to be raised over the next 18 months. Similar to the last two Fireside funds, Bailey said he’ll use the money to invest in

Fireside Financial has raised $75 million for its Fireside Real Estate Partners III fund. The fund is seeks to raise $500 million in equity commitments. Fireside focuses on value-added investments in multifamily and self-storage properties, primarily in the Midwest. Fireside Real Estate Partners II, the fund’s predecessor, launched in 2011 and was targeting $100 million in equity commitments.   Click Here for Original Article

Michael Bailey’s Fireside Financial, a private equity firm based in Edwardsville, is on the market to grow its real estate portfolio, looking to buy two to three apartment properties as well as 300,000 square feet of self-storage space this year. In addition to Fireside’s expected acquisitions in 2012, the company also plans to launch two new investment funds totaling a combined $500 million in assets in early 2014, according to Bailey, who founded Fireside in