Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMission Capital Advisors is offering a pair of loan portfolios with a combined balance of $20 million.Both portfolios, which are offered by different sellers, are expected to be sold before the end of...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportHines REIT has agreed to buy a 197,135-square-foot office building in Seattle for $72.2 million from Touchstone Seattle Venture II.The building at 5th and Bell streets, which was developed by a venture of...

Crescent Hotels & Resorts has acquired two suite hotels with a combined 477 units in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., and Richmond, Va.The Fairfax, Va., investor plans to make a combined $6 million worth of improvements to the properties: the...

Ryan Krauch, a vice president with Somera Capital Management, has joined Mesa West Capital as principal.Krauch, who had been charged with making investments on behalf of Somera's joint venture equity platform, will focus on originating structured finance packages...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportInvestors that purchased former Equity Office Properties Trust buildings from Blackstone Group should be successful in raising rental rates.That's largely because Equity Office, a REIT, had followed a strategy of keeping its 580...

Jones Lang LaSalle has added two former Trammell Crow Co. executives to its Dallas office.The two, Jeff Eckert and James Esquivel, who were named senior vice presidents, will focus on increasing the firm's third-party agency leasing business and...

Triple Net Properties has sold the Buschwood Office Park III, with about 78,000 square feet in Tampa, Fla., to Eola Capital. The two-story property, which was built in 1989, was sold by the Santa Ana., Calif., firm on...

Shorenstein Properties has raised $1.3 billion in equity for its latest investment fund. With leverage, the fund is likely to have about $3 billion of buying power.The fund is targeting value-add office and mixed-use property investments in major...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportInvestors that purchased former Equity Office Properties Trust buildings from Blackstone Group should be successful in raising rental rates.That's largely because Equity Office, a REIT, had followed a strategy of keeping its 580...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportHines REIT has agreed to buy a 197,135-square-foot office building in Seattle for $72.2 million from Touchstone Seattle Venture II.The building at 5th and Bell streets, which was developed by a venture of...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMission Capital Advisors is offering a pair of loan portfolios with a combined balance of $20 million.Both portfolios, which are offered by different sellers, are expected to be sold before the end of...

Jones Lang LaSalle has added two former Trammell Crow Co. executives to its Dallas office.The two, Jeff Eckert and James Esquivel, who were named senior vice presidents, will focus on increasing the firm's third-party agency leasing business and...

Ryan Krauch, a vice president with Somera Capital Management, has joined Mesa West Capital as principal.Krauch, who had been charged with making investments on behalf of Somera's joint venture equity platform, will focus on originating structured finance packages...

Westbrook Partners has taken an equity position in a portfolio of four Washington, D.C., office buildings with nearly 390,000 square feet in a recapitalization valued at $100 million.The investment manager becomes a venture partner in the properties with...

American Assets Inc. has completed the $312 million purchase of the Fireman's Fund headquarters, a 710,330-square-foot complex in Novato, Calif.The San Diego investment firm purchased the property from American Financial Realty Trust, which was represented in the sale...

John Bell, executive vice president and principal of Trammell Crow, has joined DTZ Rockwood as managing director and will head the company's new Miami investment sales operation.Donald B. Cartwright, who was principal and area director for South Florida...

CB Richard Ellis has launched a unit to advise clients, primarily foreign investors, seeking to buy properties in the United States.It has placed Joseph Callanan, who had been head of Trammell Crow Co.'s Northeast region, to head the...

Acadia Realty Trust is well on its way to raising $500 million of equity for its third investment vehicle. The White Plains, N.Y., REIT, which pursues properties with substantial retail components that it can add value to, will...

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,...

John Bell, executive vice president and principal of Trammell Crow, has joined DTZ Rockwood as managing director and will head the company's new Miami investment sales operation.Donald B. Cartwright, who was principal and area director for South Florida...

CB Richard Ellis has launched a unit to advise clients, primarily foreign investors, seeking to buy properties in the United States.It has placed Joseph Callanan, who had been head of Trammell Crow Co.'s Northeast region, to head the...

FortGroup is offering for sale a five-property, 4,477-bed student housing portfolio for $201 million.The St. Augustine, Fla., student housing developer has tapped Marcus & Millichap to market the properties, which are located in Gainesville, Fla., Athens, Ga., Columbia,...

Acadia Realty Trust is well on its way to raising $500 million of equity for its third investment vehicle. The White Plains, N.Y., REIT, which pursues properties with substantial retail components that it can add value to, will...

Westbrook Partners has taken an equity position in a portfolio of four Washington, D.C., office buildings with nearly 390,000 square feet in a recapitalization valued at $100 million.The investment manager becomes a venture partner in the properties with...

American Assets Inc. has completed the $312 million purchase of the Fireman's Fund headquarters, a 710,330-square-foot complex in Novato, Calif.The San Diego investment firm purchased the property from American Financial Realty Trust, which was represented in the sale...