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LEM Mezzanine has hired Frank Sparrow as vice president of capital markets.Sparrow joins the Philadelphia lender from Capmark Finance Inc., where he was vice president and portfolio manager. He managed a $5.5 billion portfolio of mortgages, mezzanine loans, preferred equity...

By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterThe Soffer Organization has decided against selling Quantum 1, a 159,000-square-foot office building in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh developer, which is run by the Soffer family, had placed the property on the sales...

Australian investment manager Babcock & Brown has agreed to buy Gregory Greenfield & Associates, an Atlanta shopping mall owner and operator that has a controlling interest in eight regional malls.Babcock & Brown did not say how much it would pay...

Bank of America provided $483 million of financing to a venture between Blackacre Institutional Capital Management and Murray Hill Properties for its $550 million purchase of the 924,501-square-foot office building at One Park Ave. in midtown Manhattan.The five-year financing is comprised...

Investcorp has acquired a 96 percent interest in a portfolio of nine full-service hotels with 2,828 rooms from Procaccianti Group, in a deal valuing the properties at $450 million.Investcorp, whose parent is based in Bahrain and is capitalized largely by...

Equastone has purchased the Equitable Building, a 624,642-square-foot office building in downtown Atlanta. A purchase price was not disclosed, but a source familiar with the property said it traded for about $55 million.The La Jolla, Calif., firm purchased the 32-story...

David M. Jacobstein, who earlier this month stepped down as president and chief operating officer of Developers Diversified Realty Corp., has joined Deloitte & Touche USA as senior adviser to the consulting firm's real estate group.At Deloitte, Jacobstein will advise...

Australian investment manager Babcock & Brown has agreed to buy Gregory Greenfield & Associates, an Atlanta shopping mall owner and operator that has a controlling interest in eight regional malls.Babcock & Brown did not say how much it would pay...

A venture between Griffith Properties and Urdang Capital Management has paid $45 million for HarborSouth Tower, a 200,000-square-foot office building in Quincy, Mass.The venture purchased the property from an undisclosed local investor, who marketed the 10-story building through CB Richard...

By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterThe Soffer Organization has decided against selling Quantum 1, a 159,000-square-foot office building in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh developer, which is run by the Soffer family, had placed the property on the sales...