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Pacific Investment Management Co, a Newport Beach, Calif, investment firm that's commonly referred to as Pimco, has agreed to acquire Columbia Property Trust Inc in an all-cash deal valued at $22 billion The deal, which includes the assumption of...

Equity Commonwealth has dropped its offer for Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp after its bid failed to get enough support from Monmouth shareholders The Chicago REIT had offered to buy the Holmdel, NJ, REIT in a stock swap in which it would...

Starwood Real Estate Income Trust Inc has increased its all-cash offer for Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp to $1993/share from the $1951/share it had offered earlier this month The latest offer comes two days after Equity Commonwealth, which...

Starwood Real Estate Income Trust Inc, a non-traded REIT sponsored by Starwood Capital Group, is urging shareholders of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp to reject a merger offer from Equity Commonwealth in favor of its $1951/share cash offer...

Alternative lender Ready Capital Corp, which specializes in writing small- to medium-sized commercial mortgages as well as small-business loans, has acquired Red Stone Co, an affordable-housing specialist Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed,...

MSCI Inc, a provider of investment data, has agreed to buy Real Capital Analytics, which tracks commercial property investment-sales, for $950 million in cash The transaction is slated to be completed in the fourth quarter and shows just how high...

Independence Realty Trust Inc has agreed to acquire Steadfast Apartment REIT Inc in an all-stock transaction valued at about $2 billion, plus the assumption of $22 billion of debt The transaction, slated to be completed by the end of the year, would...

Kite Realty Group Trust has agreed to acquire Retail Properties of America Inc in an all-stock transaction valued at $28 billion, plus the assumption of $2 billion of debt The resulting company, which would keep the Kite Realty name, would own 185...

The New York investment manager has agreed to acquire QTS Realty Trust Inc in a deal that values the Overland Park, Kan, data-center REIT at $10 billion, including the assumption of about $23 billion of debt The deal, which is slated to close in the...

Ares Management Corp has agreed to buy Black Creek Group, a Denver investment manager focused on the industrial sector The acquisition will bolster the size of the Los Angeles company's real estate operation by more than 40 percent to $29 billion...