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June 30, 2000 ATLANTA – Wells Real Estate Funds has purchased a fully leased, single-tenant office building in Troy, Mich., for $19.8 million, or about $185/sf.A subsidiary of Delphi Automotives Systems Corp. has signed a seven-year lease for the 107,200-square-foot...

June 29, 2000 (NewsTraders.com) – Apartment Investment & Management (NYSE:AIV) was upgraded to "buy" from "outperform" today by Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jonathan Litt, according to a source at the brokerage concern.The analyst has a $52 price target on the...

June 29, 2000 DALLAS – Milestone Hotel Investments Inc. and Regency Hotel Management Inc. have purchased a portfolio of eight Clubhouse Inn hotels and six Wyndham Garden Hotels, as well as the Clubhouse Inn brand, from Wyndham International (NYSE:WYN). Terms...

June 29, 2000 DALLAS (Primezone) – Richard Douglas and Larry Harley have resigned from the boards of Transcontinental Realty Investors Inc. (NYSE:WYN) and Income Opportunity Realty Investors Inc. (AMEX:IOT), effective June 15 and June 19, respectively. In a joint announcement...

June 29, 2000 NORTHBROOK, Ill. – A unit of Grubb & Ellis Co. (NYSE:GBE), has been hired as facilities manager for IBM's 1 million-square-foot e-commerce call center in St. Louis.The unit, Grubb & Ellis Management Services Inc., now manages 4.5...

June 29, 2000 By Paul Gereffi, Commercial Real Estate Direct CorrespondentJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Duke-Weeks Realty Corp. (NYSE:DRE) is planning to develop 200,000 square feet of office space in Southpoint, an office complex in Jacksonville.The $20 million project, Gemini Place, will...

June 29, 2000 CHICAGO – CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, DTZ and Reed Business Information have teamed up to develop a European commercial real estate portal, which is code named Project Pathway.The portal's focus will be on developing a...

June 29, 2000 By Brad Berton, Commercial Real Estate Direct Contributing EditorJonathan "Jack" Spound, a veteran Southern California real estate executive, has joined AEW Capital Management as director of AEW Partners in Los Angeles.Spound previously was with JER Partners, a...

June 29, 2000 ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Captec Net Lease Realty (Nasdaq:CRRR) has retained Prudential Securities Inc. to explore ways to increase shareholder value, including a sale or merger of the company.The move follows the company's announcement last month that...

June 29, 2000 Go To Initial Price Guidance.The following table shows final pricing for the top eight tranches of a 32-tranche floating-rate deal – a variant of the "A-B" structure, in this case an "A-B-C" structure (see figure below pricing...