April 3, 2000 Kennedy-Wilson Inc. (Nasdaq:KWIC) has purchased another portfolio of Japanese loans. This time, the Beverly Hills, Calif., firm bought $100 million of distressed loans from a "major Japanese trust bank," according to the firm. It paid...

April 3, 2000 NEW YORK – Starwood Financial Inc. (NYSE:SFI) has increased its quarterly common stock dividend to 60 cents/share from 42 cents/share. The dividend is payable April 28 to holders of record April 14.

April 3, 2000 A high-tech haven for Toronto?The Globe and Mail, April 3TORONTO – Robert Fung, an investment banker and chairman of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Task, wants to turn an unused stretch of land along the city's...

April 3, 2000 (NewsTraders.com) -- Prime Retail (NYSE:PRT) sagged to "market perform" from "accumulate" in the opinion of Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Charles Post, who cited a host of difficulties, including the company's weakened fundamentals and its non-compliance...

April 3, 2000 NEW YORK – CapitalThinking Inc., a mortgage-lending site, has raised $15 million of capital, its second round of venture capital financing, from a group led by Bessemer Venture Partnes and RRE Ventures. Starwood Financial Inc....

April 3, 2000 Following are excerpts from PricewaterhouseCoopers' inaugural issue of Real Estate Value Cycles, which was put together by the firm's Strategic Real Estate Research Group.The national office market has undoubtedly reached its peak and begun its...

April 3, 2000 PaineWebber Group's real estate investment banking unit has been consolidated under the helm of Jack Taylor, who formerly co-headed the group with Terry Fancher. Both are managing directors.Taylor now oversees the firm's commercial mortgage-backed securities,...

April 3, 2000 NEW YORK – Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) has received a $59 million secured financing line from Dime Savings Bank of New York FSB.About $30 million was used to pay off what remained of a $53...

March 31, 2000 Associated PressREDSTONE, Colo. – The Redstone Castle, which sits on a 150-acre parcel here, is set to be auctioned once again on Sunday.Auctioneers were uncertain how much money the property, which has had three owners...

March 31, 2000 LOS ANGELES – Infonet Services Corp. has paid $33 million, or $211.50/sf for its newly built corporate headquarters in El Segundo, Calif.The 156,000-square-foot office building was purchased from Kearny Real Estate Co., which developed it...

March 31, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO – Cornerstone Properties Inc. (NYSE:CPP) has sold two Walnut Creek, Calif., office buildings for $27 million through two separate transactions.An unidentified local investor paid $14.4 million, or about $173 per square foot, for...

March 31, 2000 KENNILWORTH, N.J. – The largest stockholder of real estate developer Castle and Cooke (NYSE:CCS) is looking to take the company private in a deal valued at $214 million, or $17 per share, in cash. David...

March 31, 2000 By Watcharapong Thongrung, The Nation BANGKOK, Thailand – The SSP Group is negotiating with some interested investors to sell part of its stake in five hotels, according to company director Somchai Leeswadtrakul. The SSP Group,...

March 31, 2000 Convention center heads west The Vancouver Sun, March 31 VANCOUVER – A task force studying ways to bring more convention space to Vancouver unveiled a plan for a smaller project on the west side of...

March 31, 2000 Florida REIT puts business park on market The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 31ATLANTA – Crocker Realty Trust of Boca Raton is shopping 1.2 million square feet of business park space throughout six projects in the area...

March 31, 2000Associated PressPITTSBURGH – Oxford Development Corp. has signed a contract to purchase CNG Tower and received permission to move forward with plans to build a new FBI office building in the city. While neither deal is...

March 31, 2000 By Phil West, AP Business Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The executive who became synonymous with private prisons likely will be on the outside looking in after Prison Realty Trust Inc.'s annual meeting. Doctor R. Crants...

March 31, 2000 Crocker Realty Trust of Boca Raton, Fla., is looking to sell seven commercial properties with 1.2 million square feet in the Atlanta region, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The firm is marketing the space through Cushman...

March 31, 2000 By Phil West, AP Business WriterNASHVILLE, Tenn. – The world's largest for-profit prison operator reported a 1999 loss of $53.3 million and said losses and pressure from creditors put its future in doubt. Prison Realty...

March 30, 2000 DALLAS – Amresco Capital Trust (Nasdaq:AMCT) is calling it quits.The mortgage REIT's board has approved a plan of liquidation that, if approved by shareholders, will result in the gradual disposition of some $261 million of...

March 30, 2000 GREAT NECK, N.Y. – One Liberty Properties Inc. (Amex:OLP) has paid $14 million for a 110,179-square-foot retail center in El Paso, Texas. The property, which was purchased with a $10 million mortgage, is occupied by...

March 30, 2000 Lender, hotel chain secured for Convention Center hotel project The Miami Herald, March 30FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Peebles Atlantic Development Corp. of Miami is set to break ground for the long-delayed Broward County Convention Center...

March 30, 2000 Trendy City Square may have buyerVancouver Sun, March 30 VANCOUVER – Colliers International has reportedly found a buyer for City Square, an upscale office-retail complex at Cambie and West 12th streets owned by Oxford Properties...

March 30, 2000CHICAGO – Horizon Group Properties Inc. (Nasdaq:HGPI) has agreed to sell a portfolio of seven shopping centers to Triple Net LLC, a Santa Ana property manager, for $93.5 million.The properties total 1.6 million square feet and...

March 29, 2000 MEXICO CITY – Nicholas R. Criss III, former director general of Staubach/CMI International, has joined Cushman & Wakefield as director of industrial services for Mexico. Criss will be in charge of the firm's industrial brokerage...