April 25, 2000 Asset Investors Corp. (NYSE:AIC) and Commercial Assets Inc. (AMEX:CAX), which have agreed to merge, have filed a joint proxy statement with the SEC.A majority of shareholders from both companies must approve the plan for Commercial...

April 25, 2000 MGI Properties (NYSE:MGI) has recovered $22.6 million from the sale of an Aurora, Ill., shopping center. The 362,000-square-foot shopping center was sold to M&J Wilkow Properties Inc. The sale, which was detailed in a Form...

April 25, 2000 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Boddie-Noell Properties Inc. (Amex:BNP) has changed its name to BNP Residential Properties Inc.The REIT made the change to better reflect its business operations. When it was founded in 1987, the firm owned...

April 25, 2000 Go To Fitch IBCA Pre-Sale Report.Go To S&P Pre-Sale Report.First Union National Bank Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2000-C1ClassAmount($mln)Sub. Level(%)RatingS&PRatingFitchAvg.LifeGuidance(BP)BnchMarkA-19625.75AAAAAA5.6L+24-26Int. Swap*A-2485.525.75AAAAAA10L+38-40Int. SwapB39.220.75AAAA10L+50-55Int. SwapC35.216.25AA10L+62-70Int. SwapD11.714.75A-A-10L+72-75Int. SwapE25.511.5BBBBBB10+240 areaTreas.F-11.710BBB-BBB-10+285 areaTreas.X**783.09N/AAAArAAA10+400Treas.* Guidance was issued against the interpolated swap spread in classes...

April 25, 2000 After years of trouble, Terremark sells Grove headquartersThe Miami Herald, April 25COCONUT GROVE, Fla.– Terremark Centre has been sold for $58.8 million. which calculates to $200 per square foot, a record price for commercial Miami...

April 25, 2000Scaled down convention proposal exploredThe Ottawa Citizen, April 25 OTTAWA – Planners are developing a cheaper, less controversial proposal for expanding convention facilities at the Rideau Centre, scrapping plans to bury part of Colonel By Drive...

April 24, 2000 ROCKVILLE, Md. – Criimi Mae Inc. (NYSE:CMM) has sold $289.7 million of commercial mortgage-backed securities from First Union-Lehman Brothers-Bank of America, 1998-C2 to an affiliate of Lehman Brothers for about $140 million.Criimi had carried the...

April 24, 2000 Tishman Speyer Properties and Travelers Group are looking to sell a piece of the Chrysler Building and the adjoining 666 Third Avenue, which comprise some 2 million square feet in Midtown Manhattan.Eastdil Realty and Salomon...

April 24, 2000 CHICAGO – Prime Group Inc. has agreed to sell 3.9 million shares of Brookdale Living Communities Inc. (Nasdaq:BLCI) to Fortress Investment Fund for a total of $58.8 million, or $15/share.Fortress can buy an additional 87,500...

April 24, 2000 LOS ANGELES – PhatPipe.com Inc. has launched an online service that gives property owners access to a variety of discounted services.The Carlsbad, Calif., firm aggregates technology products and services such as broadband access to the...

April 24, 2000CB Richard Ellis Investors is buying One North Lexington Ave. in White Plains, N.Y., on behalf of a separate account client.The pension fund adviser did not disclose a purchase price, but the 525,000-square-foot building is believed...

April 24, 2000 Triangle landlords offer creative leases to tech start-upsThe Charlotte Observer, April 24CHARLOTTE, N.C. – To bring in new technology companies, Triangle landlords are shortening lease lengths, easing up on security deposits and even considering accepting...

April 24, 2000 Texas job picture still glowsDallas Morning News, April 24 DALLAS – Texas added 45,000 jobs last month and recorded its lowest Marchunemployment rate in twenty years. The statewide unemployment rate was unchanged from March 1999....

April 24, 2000Joseph G. Beard, through entities he controls, has taken a 6.6 percent stake in Glenborough Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE:GLB).The Dallas investor detailed his 2 million-shares interest in the REIT in a Form SC 13D/A that was...

April 24, 2000SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A venture between Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE:RPT) and Investcorp International has paid $16.5 million for East Town Plaza in Madison, Wis.The shopping center, the third acquisition by the joint venture, is anchored by...

April 24, 2000 ATLANTA – Abrams Industries Inc. sold its former manufacturing facility in Douglas County, Georgia, for about $11 million to Gazelle LLC. Gazelle of Redwood City, California, intends to convert the property to an Internet infrastructure...

April 24, 2000 NEW YORK – Standard & Poor's raised the servicer ratings of CapMark Services LP and Lend Lease Asset Management LP.The ratings of the two former Amresco Inc. units were removed from CreditWatch, where they were...

April 24, 2000 Impac Commercial Holdings Inc. (AMEX:ICMH) has made $11.6 million available to buy back more than 2 million shares of its outstanding stock at $5.75 per share.The offer stands until May 19, at which time Impac...

April 24, 2000 TORONTO – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has invested in Elevator News Network, which provides news via monitors installed in office building elevators.Elevator News is one of several Internet, or new media companies that Goldman has...

April 20, 2000 DENVER – Archstone Communities (NYSE:ASN) has paid $58.5 million for Studio Colony, a 450-unit apartment complex in West Los Angeles. The purchase is part of Archstone's plan to purchase apartment properties in urban "in-fill," or...

April 20, 2000 FORT WORTH, Texas – Dennis Alberts, president and chief executive of Pacific Retail Trust, has been named president and chief operating officer of Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. (NYSE:CEI)As president and COO, Alberts will work...

April 20, 2000 Downtown office space at a premium, study shows TORONTO – Toronto had the lowest vacancy rate in 13 years, down to 7.7 percent for the first quarter of 2000, according to a new study from...

April 20, 2000 PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:PEI) sold a 294,000-square-foot industrial property in Alexandria, Va., for $8 million. But the REIT received an additional $4 million when it terminated a lease on the property.The...

April 20, 2000 City still shaping deal with downtown on Blue Cross officesThe Florida Times-Union, April 20JACKSONVILLE, Fla – The city continues to talk with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida about its $36 million downtown offices...

April 20, 2000 MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Center Trust Inc. (NYSE:CTA) sold the AMC Theater in Covina Town Square shopping center in Covina, Calif., for $23 million, or $242/sf.Center Trust obtained a $17.4 million mortgage for the property,...