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 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 12, 2001 AMLI Residential Joint Venture to Develop and Own Atlanta Apartment CommunityPRNewswire, January 11ALPHARETTA, Ga. – AMLI Residential and Northwester Mutual will develop and own AMLI at Milton Park. Plans call for 461 apartment homes set...

January 12, 2001 (NewsTraders.com) – Mall-focused real estate investment trusts, which are up 6.5 percent since mid-December, will continue to outperform through mid-May, a UBS Warburg analyst said today.May is an important month to mark on the calendar...

INDIANAPOLIS – Duke-Weeks Realty Corp. (NYSE:DRE) has begun building 2.4 million square feet of new developments across the country that are 61 percent pre-leased with a budgeted cost of $150 million.About $66 million of these developments will be...

January 12, 2001LAS VEGAS – Vestin Group Inc. (Nasdaq: VSTN) has tapped NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to be the firm's new spokesman.Namath will soon be accompanying Vestin CEO Michael V. Shustek on a 41-city national...

January 12, 2001SAN FRANCISCO – VerticalNet Solutions is providing some of the technology behind MortgageRamp's Web site.VerticalNet Solutions is providing the online lender with its eMarketplace Suite platform, which includes commerce, community and content modules for MortgageRamp. VerticalNet's...

January 12, 2001 DENVER, – The board of trustees at ProLogis Trust (NYSE:PLD) has approved a share repurchase program under which ProLogis may buy back up to $100 million of the company's common shares of beneficial interest.At today's...

January 12, 2001NEW YORK – A syndicate of three banks has provided Millennium Partners with a $215 million construction loan for the development of the Four Seasons Hotel and Tower in Miami.Fleet National Bank, Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank and Ocean...

January 12, 2001 Maurice A. Halperin has taken a 13.8 percent stake in Prime Retail Inc. (NYSE:PRT), up from a previous stake of 12.2 percent reported in November.The investor, who is now actively seeking representation on the REIT's...

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...