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Fitch CMBS Upgrades Outpaced Downgrades in ’99
March 15, 2000 Fitch IBCA upgraded more individual tranches of commercial mortgage-backed securities last year than it downgraded.The rating agency conducted almost 200 reviews of more than $83.2 billion of CMBS. It upgraded 160 tranches within 55 deals...
U.K. Firm to Securitize Land Leases
March 15, 2000 LONDON – Standard & Poor's has assigned preliminary ratings to the first U.K. ground rent securitization, a 104 million pound ($164 million) transaction by Peverel Funding Ltd., a special-purpose entity formed by Peverel Properties Ltd.The...
Finalists Picked for San Francisco Offices
March 15, 2000 Divco West Properties and Westbrook Partners are among the finalists vying to buy 303 Second Street in San Francisco, according to the Wall Street Journal.The 700,000-square-foot office building, which is commonly known as Marathon Plaza,...
Swiss Re Leases 100,000 sf at 230 Park in Manhattan
March 15, 2000NEW YORK – Swiss Re Capital Partners has signed a 20-year lease for 100,000 square feet at 230 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The firm, a division of Swiss Reinsurance Co., will occupy four entire floors...
Minocan Buys Miami Office Building
March 15, 2000 By Paul Gereffi, IPGDirect.com CorrespondentMIAMI – Minocan Investments of Miami has purchased the 12000 Biscayne, a 150,000-square-foot office building in Miami. The purchase price could not be learned, but rents at the building, which is...
Summit Properties Ups Dividend by 5% to $0.4375/shr
March 15, 2000 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Summit Properties Inc. (NYSE:SMT) has set a 43.75 cents/share dividend payable May 15 to shareholders of record April 14. The dividend repesents an annualized dividend of $1.75/share. That compares with $1.67/share that...
Security Capital Parent Sells Investment for $96.9 Mln
March 15, 2000 LUXEMBOURG – SC-U.S. Realty (NYSE:RTY) said it has sold its investment in Security Capital Group for $96.9 million to two investors. SC had been carrying the investment at $95.8 million. Go to Previous Story in...
Arden Sells $250 Mln of Senior Unsecured Notes
March 15, 2000 LOS ANGELES – Arden Realty Inc. (NYSE:ARI) said its Arden Realty LP has priced $250 million of senior unsecured notes under Rule 144A.The two tranches consisted of a $200 million tranche of 8.875 percent notes...
Allied Capital Raising $7.4 Mln from Investor
March 15, 2000 Allied Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ALLC) has filed to sell 466,465 common shares for $7.4 million to an institutional investor. The Form 497 filing was made with the SEC.The filing said that Allied would use the capital...
Omega Assumes Assets of Bankrupt RainTree Healthcare
March 15, 2000 ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. (NYSE:OHI) has taken possession of 30 nursing home and assisted-living properties operated by RainTree Healthcare Corp. of Phoenix.At the end of 1999, Omega had $78 million invested...
Steeltech Creditors Hire Brokers to Sell Plant
March 15, 2000 Associated Press MILWAUKEE – Creditors of the bankrupt Steeltech Manufacturing Inc. have hired The Dickman Co. and Jones Lang LaSalle to market a plant they have been trying to sell independently for several months.The creditors...
Thomas McCahill Promoted to Senior VP at MONY
March 15, 2000 NEW YORK – Thomas M. McCahill, who leads the investment management team for The MONY Group's (NYSE:MNY) commercial mortgage and equity real estate portfolio, has been promoted to senior vice president at the financial services...
Malan Realty Again Offers to Increase Board Size
March 15, 2000 BINGHAM FARMS, Mich. – Malan Realty Investors Inc. (NYSE:MAL) has reiterated its offer to provide representation on its board to Kensington Investment Group of Orinda, Calif.In an amended Form 13D, Kensington expressed its dissatisfaction with...
AIMCO Plans to Buy More Properties from Dreyfuss Bros.
March 14, 2000 Apartment Investment and Management Co. (NYSE:AIV), through an operating partnership, expects to acquire five residential communities from Dreyfuss Brothers Inc. by June 30.In December and January, AIMCO bought four other communities from Dreyfuss.In total, AIMCO...
G&L Realty Corp. 4th-Qtr FFO -$0.59/shr vs -$0.95/shr
March 14, 2000 4th-Qtr 994th-Qtr 9812-mos 9912-mos 98FFO ($2.3 mln)($4.3 mln)($6 mln)$0.8 mlnFFO/shr (diluted) ($0.59) ($0.95) ($1.36)$0.17 Extra Gain (Loss) ($0.2 mln) -- ($0.2 mln) -- Net Income (Loss) ($0.9 mln) ($3.1 mln) ($2.1 mln) $4.3 mln Net...
CB Richard Ellis Considers Korean Asset Buy
March 14, 2000 SEOUL (Asia Pulse) - CB Richard Ellis said it is considering buying assets from Korea Asset Management Corp., including land, buildings and other assets taken over in connection with bad loans.The move is based on...
Canada Regional Digest
March 14, 2000 Report: Vancouver needs more convention spaceThe Vancouver Sun, March 14VANCOUVER – Vancouver officials can reap twice as much convention visitor spending by expanding the amount of facilities available, according to a report from KPMG, which...
Southeast Regional Digest
March 14, 2000 TBS starts two buildings to cement Atlanta tiesThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 14ATLANTA – Turner Broadcasting plans to add two new facilities that will total 330,000-square-feet at its 35-acre Techwood campus, where it currently has about...
LoopNet Hires Silicon Valley Vet as CFO
March 14, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO – LoopNet Inc., an online commercial mortgage lending site, has hired Robert Hull, formerly chief financial officer at Risk Management Solutions Inc. as the chief financial officer.Hull was with Risk Management, which provides...
Cornerstone Realty Sells 16 Properties for $136.5 Mln
March 14, 2000RICHMOND, Va. – Cornerstone Realty Income Trust (NYSE:TCR) completed the sale of 16 apartment communities, with 3,609 units, for $136.5 million.Proceeds of the sale will be used to pay down Cornerstone's credit line, fund a $35...
Kelvin Davis Leaves Colony, Joins Texas Pacific
March 14, 2000 Kelvin Davis, the chief operating officer and co-founder of Colony Capital Inc., has left to join its affiliate, Texas Pacific Group, in order to handle investments outside of real estate.The departure is totally amicable, according...
Kearny/Lankford Sell San Diego Office Building for $44 Mln
March 14, 2000 SAN DIEGO, Calif. – A partnership between Kearny Real Estate Co. and Lankford & Associates of San Diego has sold a recently completed office building in the Scripps Northridge Corporate Center for $44 million.The 188,275-square-foot...
Archstone to Invest $122 Mln in Long Island Complex
March 14, 2000 DENVER – Archstone Communities (NYSE:ASN) is about to close on a deal to buy 37 acres at the Roosevelt Raceway, a proposed mixed-use property in the Town of Hempstead in Long Island, N.Y.Archstone anticipates that...
Boeing Eyes Sale of Surplus Land in California
March 14, 2000 SEAL BEACH, Calif. – Boeing Realty Corp. is planning to sell 48 acres of undeveloped land next to its Space and Communications Group headquarters in Seal Beach.The property is zoned for light industrial/manufacturing. Boeing has...
U.S. Restaurants Properties 4th-Qtr FFO -$0.05/shr vs $0.08/shr
March 14, 2000 4th-Qtr 994th-Qtr 9812-mos 9912-mos 98FFO ($0.8 mln)$1.3 mln $24.9 mln $18.6 mln FFO/shr (diluted)($0.05) $0.08 $1.46 $1.23 Net Income (Loss)($12.2 mln) $4.5 mln $6.3 mln $1.2 mln Net (Loss)/shr($0.79) ($0.31) ($0.43) ($0.09) Revenue$19.8 mln $15.9...
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