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Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportGarnet Capital Advisors is marketing a $51.1 million portfolio of distressed commercial loans, mostly mortgages, on behalf of a bank client.The Harrison, N.Y., loan-sale adviser, formed three years ago by a team from investment bank...

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Douglas Emmett Inc. has paid $32 million for 1801 Century Park West, a 49,855-square-foot office building in Century City, Calif. The Santa Monica, Calif., REIT, which went public late last year, bought the fully leased building from a partnership led...

Younan Properties has completed its purchase of One Dallas Centre, a 615,000-square-foot office building in downtown Dallas. A purchase price was not disclosed, but the Los Angeles firm was said to have paid $23.5 million.Colonnade Properties of New York sold...

Glenborough Realty Trust has paid $20.5 million for the Saddleback Financial Center, a 72,980-square-foot medical office building in the Orange County town of Laguna Hills, Calif. The San Mateo, Calif., REIT purchased the four-story building from Mammoth Equities of San...

Jeffrey Havsy, former vice president of strategic research at Equity Office Properties Trust, has been named global strategist at Property & Portfolio Research Inc. As global strategist, a new position at the Boston research and consulting firm, Havsy is charged...

The long-awaited securitization of the debt that Blackstone Group used to finance its $38.7 billion acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust has finally hit the market. The private-equity giant had assumed or borrowed $31.2 billion for its acquisition. The bulk...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportA trio of private equity firms that includes real estate investor Lubert-Adler Partners is buying Central Parking Corp. for $746 million.Kohlberg & Co. and Chrysalis Capital Partners, whose investment focuses are on operating companies and...

By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterHines REIT is offering for sale Citymark, a 218,943-square-foot office building in downtown Dallas.The Houston firm has tapped CB Richard Ellis' Dallas office to market the 11-story building. It is hitting the...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportAnother three CMBS deals hit the market today and when they price, the year's total volume of domestic issuance will have exceeded $100 billion.And the thinking is that despite the evident slowdown in the market,...