January 17, 2001 By Thomas J. Walsh, Commercial Real Estate Direct Senior WriterARCap, the private Dallas-based REIT and a major investor in subordinate-class commercial mortgage-backed securities, has wrapped up an agreement to buy the B-piece of a large...

January 17, 2001 NEW YORK – Standard & Poor's has raised its ratings on two classes of Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp.'s commercial mortgage pass-through certificates series 1998-FL1 and affirmed one other class.The rating agency has...

January 17, 2001 Westbrook Partners LLC has promoted three of its team to the added position of managing principal.Those promoted are: Rachel V. Brannan, chief financial officer, Mary I. Harris, director of investor relations; and Scott R. Fitzgerald,...

January 17, 2001 NEW YORK – A 38,000-square-foot parking lot, the last undeveloped parcel in Times Square, has been sold for $111 million, according to reports today in New York City's daily newspapers.The family of Paul Milstein beat...

January 17, 2001 RioCan begins third phase of RioCan Colossus CentreBusiness Wire, January 17TORONTO – RioCan REIT and Trinity Development Group Inc. have purchased 5.56 acres of land for a $12.5 million expansion of RioCan Colossus Centre in...

January 16, 2001 WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Keystone Property Trust (NYSE:KTR) has leased a 798,096-square-foot distribution facility in the Indianapolis submarket of Plainfield to Belkin Components under a ten-year agreement.The project, a joint venture with Browning Investments Inc.,...

January 16, 2001 Commercial Mortgage Lease-Backed Certificates, Series 2000* CMLB-1ClassAmount($mln)Sub. Level(%)RatingS&PRatingMoody'sAvg.LifePriceTalk(BP)BenchMarkA-145.417.5AAAAAA3+30 areaSwapsA-2136.317.5AAAAAA10+54 areaSwapsA-3183.317.5AAAAAA16.7+85 areaSwapsA-428.617.5AAAAAA19.7+105 areaSwapsB9.515.5AA-NR20.3+140 areaSwapsC9.513.5A+NR20.8+160 areaSwapsD9.511.5ANR21.3+180 areaSwaps* Deal was originally due to launch in December.

January 16, 2001 By Brad Berton, Commercial Real Estate Direct Contributing EditorTwo West Hollywood, Calif., developers have received $12 million in permanent financing for the recently completed Bristol Farms, an upscale market built on the former site of...

January 16, 2001 BOSTON – Mark Albertson has joined Lend Lease Real Estate Investments Inc. as a principal in the pension adviser's Boston-based multifamily group. In his new post, Albertson is responsible for portfolio management and client relations,...

January 16, 2001 Childress Klein to build Charlotte, N.C., industrial parkThe Business Journal of Charlotte (N.C.), January 16CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Childress Klein Properties Inc. plans to develop 1 million square feet of warehouse and distribution space off Westinghouse...

January 16, 2001Jersey firm advances into the local real estate marketBoston Business Journal, January 16BOSTON – Advance Realty Group of Bedminster, N.J., has purchased the Westborough Executive Park, a 216,000-square-foot, three-building office site, and Southborough Executive Park, a...

January 16, 2001 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE:PPS) has secured a new $320 million three-year revolving credit line and a $185 million 364-day credit line.The three-year line replaces the REIT's previous line of credit, which was scheduled...

January 16, 2001Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds and the senior management of Wellsford Commercial Properties Trust have formed WP Commercial to rehabilitate buildings into prime office, research and development and flex space in the Baltimore-Washington, New Jersey and...

January 16, 2001 ATLANTA – IRT Property Company (NYSE:IRT) has completed the $25 million stock repurchase program authorized by its board of directors in November 1999.The company repurchased 3.03 million shares at an average price of $8.26 per...

January 16, 2001 GREENWICH, Conn. – Credit rating agency Fitch has upgraded the credit rating on the $35 million of cumulative perpetual preferred stock for Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBP) to double B from double B minus.Chairman...

January 16, 2001(NewsTraders.com) – AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) received a boost from Lehman Brothers analyst David Shulman today, as he upgraded the REIT to buy from outperform after having recently raised his price target on the stock to $54.The...

January 16, 2001 CLEVELAND – Boykin Lodging Company (NYSE: BOY) has sold its 206-room Daytona Beach Radisson Resort for $12.5 million to Oceans Resorts, a company that owns other hotels in Daytona Beach, Fla.The property was called the...

January 16, 2001 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – G&L Realty Corp. (NYSE:GLR) has retained Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Financial Advisors Inc. to advise the health care REIT on a recent proposal by two top executives to buy the...

January 16, 2001 Genstar Development sold to management, investorsCanada Newswire, January 15CALGARY – Genstar Development Co. Ltd. has been sold to a group including its management and Canadian investors. The company has offices and residential land developments in...

January 12, 2001NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Grubb & Ellis Co. (NYSE:GBE) is extending its tender offer to purchase 7 million shares of its common stock at $7 per share to Jan. 24, at 5 p.m. EST.The period is being...

January 12, 2001 CHARLESTON, S.C. – Golf Trust of America Inc (AMEX:GTA) has closed on the sale of two 18-hole golf courses located near Akron, Ohio, for $10.65 million.The Raintree Golf Course and the Ohio Prestwick Country Club...

January 12, 2001 BETHESDA, Md. – Crestline Capital Corp. (NYSE:CLJ) has closed on the sale of the leases it held on certain full-service hotels owned by Host Marriott.Host Marriott Corp. (NYSE:HMT) paid $201 million in cash for the...

January 12, 2001 RioCan, Trinity Development begin work at Montreal centerPRNewswire, January 11MONTREAL – RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust and Trinity Development Group have begun construction on Centre RioCan in Montreal, Quebec. The first phase calls for 180,000...

January 12, 2001 (NewsTraders.com) – Lodging stocks won't provide shelter in a slowing economy, as trading opportunities linked to the Fed's recent interest rate cut have already come and gone, a Merrill Lynch analyst said.Traditionally, the price of...

January 12, 2001NEW YORK – Fitch has removed Commercial Capital Access One Inc.'s bond series 3, $17.3 million class 3G from rating watch negative and affirmed six other rated classes.The class 3G has been affirmed at single-B.The class...