March 1, 2000 (NewsTraders.com) – J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Lee Schalop initiated coverage of three industrial REITs today, first tagging AMB Property Corp. (NYSE:AMB) with a top-tier "buy" rating and a $22 price target.AMB is set to outperform...

March 1, 2000 By Nina Suebsuksharoen, Associated PressBANGKOK, Thailand – Big foreign investors who bailed out of Thailand and its neighbors during the Asian currency crisis are back and looking for bargains in the depressed real estate market....

March 1, 2000 HARRISBURG, Pa. – Hersha Hospitality Trust (AMEX:HT) has entered into a portfolio refinancing deal worth $23.5 million with Lehman Brothers Bank.The loan, which is collateralized by eight of its hotel properties, will be used to...

March 1, 2000 DALLAS – Olympus Real Estate Corp. has completed its previously announced $1.7 billion acquisition of Walden Residential Properties Inc., the large multifamily REIT.The transaction was completed after receiving the approval of Walden shareholders at a...

March 1, 2000 MENLO PARK, Calif. – Spieker Properties Inc. (NYSE: SPK) has acquired two West Coast office properties for $74.5 million. Quadrant Plaza in Bellevue, Wash., was purchased from a small local partnership called SPP Investments. It...

March 1, 2000 PHOENIX – InnSuites Hospitality Trust (AMEX:IHT) has appointed Anthony B. Waters to the additional position of CFO.Waters joined the REIT early last year as controller.

March 1, 2000 By Thomas J. Walsh, IPGDirect.com Senior WriterA $201 million collateralized bond obligation from CGA Investment Management that was to have priced earlier this week has been pushed back to next Monday or Tuesday (March 6-7)....

KyodoTOKYO – The government on Wednesday sold all its shares in the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) to an international group led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC in a deal Japan's financial chiefs say will aid...

March 1, 2000 By Thomas J. Walsh, IPGDirect.com Senior WriterThe Japanese securitization market, as predicted, is now in full swing. At least three large-scale securitizations have been announced within the past two weeks – one office, one multifamily...

February 29, 2000 Huge towers may rise at Miami River mouthMiami Herald, February 29MIAMI – Jorge Perez, chairman of Related Group of Florida, wants to build twin high-rise towers containing 400 apartments and 500,000 square feet of offices...

February 29, 2000By Karen Chan, The Hong Kong StandardHONG KONG – The Hong Kong government is expected to generate as much as $794 million (U.S.$102 million) from three residential sites up for auction Wednesday. It will be the...

February 29, 2000 NEW YORK – Wellsford Real Properties Inc. (AMEX:WRP) has repurchased about 2.6 million shares of its outstanding common stock from an institutional investor. The shares were repurchased at $8 per share, for total consideration of...

February 29, 2000 Standard & Poor's will replace Walden Residential Properties (NYSE: WDN) in the S&P REIT Composite Index with Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE), an industrial and office REIT, after the close of trading today. Olympus...

February 29, 2000 BALTIMORE – Prime Retail Inc. has closed on the second installment of its agreement to sell three factory outlet centers to an existing joint venture between itself, an affiliate of Estein & Associates USA Ltd....

February 29, 2000 ARLINGTON, Va. – The Mills Corp. (NYSE: MLS) and Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS) have agreed to open five new OFF 5TH Saks Avenue Outlet stores in Mills centers currently being developed. The first of the...

February 29, 2000 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ventas Inc. (NYSE:VTR) has completed the second phase of an amended long-term senior credit facility and is looking for a new CFO.Bank of America and J.P. Morgan are co-agents under the amended...

February 29, 2000 PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Cedar Income Fund Ltd. (Nasdaq:CEDR) is changing its name to Uni-Invest (U.S.A.) Ltd., effective today. As a result, the name of Cedar Income Fund Partnership LP – the umbrella partnership REIT...

February 29, 2000 Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. – New York's government worker pension fund will be putting less stock in Wall Street and more in the real estate sector. State Comptroller H. Carl McCall is the sole trustee of...

February 28, 2000 LOS ANGELES – LAACO Ltd. has agreed to a one-year lease arrangement to operate 10 self-storage facilities located in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California and has obtained an option to purchase the properties for about...

February 28, 2000Associated PressWEST NYACK, N.Y. – The Palisades Center Mall in Rockland County apparently owes $17.5 million in property taxes. Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef says the mall hasn't paid its school taxes since September 1998....

February 28, 2000 Associated PressTOKYO (Kyodo) – Tokyu Hotel Chain Co. will sell the site of the hotel it operates in Tokyo's Ginza district to Jiji Press Ltd. in May next year for ?9.5 billion (US$85.5 million). The...

February 28, 2000 Asset Investors Corp. has provided an independent auditors' report of its $36.8 million purchase of four manufactured home communities in Florida from Community Acquisition and Development Corp. Go to Previous Story in the IPGDirect.com Archive.

February 28, 2000 Blue Lake draws interest as telecom hubSouth Florida Business Journal, February 28BOCA RATON, Fla. – An MCI Worldcom switching station or one similar could be in the works for the Blue Lake Corporate Center. Partners...

February 28, 2000 (NewsTraders.com) – Kennedy-Wilson Inc. (NYSE: KWIC) today received another analyst downgrade on its stock due to its lackluster fourth-quarter 1999 earnings, despite the company's reported record revenues for the year overall. Wedbush Morgan analyst Derek...

February 28, 2000 NEW YORK – A partnership between Investcorp, Crow Holdings and Lincoln Equities Group has bought a seven-property, 1.5 million-square-foot office portfolio in Northern New Jersey for more than $150 million. The exact sale price was...