January 13, 2000 LOS ANGELES – Glen Esnard, senior managing director of investment properties for CB Richard Ellis, has been given oversight of 15 additional CB offices.Esnard now overseas investment properties operations at 33 offices in the West....

January 13, 2000 S.L. Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG) has registered to raise up to $400 million through the sale of common and preferred shares. The REIT's plans were outlined in a Form S-3A that was filed with the...

January 13, 2000 LUXEMBOURG – Security Capital-U.S. Realty (NYSE:RTY) has completed the sale of its special opportunity investment portfolio, which had generated a compound annual return since 1995 of 9.3 percent.Security Capital has been selling off the portfolio...

January 13, 2000 Associated PressFRANKFURT, Germany – More than 200 German prosecutors and police searched offices and homes Thursday connected to an investigation into troubled construction company Philipp Holzmann AG. In addition to Holzmann offices, prosecutors searched the...

January 12, 2000 MacKenzie Patterson Inc. and related entities have accumulated 36 percent of the outstanding shares of Host Funding Inc. (AMEX:HFD)MacKenzie is headquartered in Moraga, Calif., and manages real estate investments for clients. It owns 11 limited-service...

January 12, 2000 Associated PressWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Boston-based GFI Partners paid an undisclosed sum for the former Stroh Brewery, which it plans to convert into a multi-tenant building for light manufacturing and warehousing.The developer has formed a subsidiary,...

January 12, 2000 Duke-Weeks to build Florida Chase complexAtlanta Journal-Constitution, January 12TAMPA, Fla. – Duke-Weeks Realty Corp. will develop a three-building, 450,000-square-foot campus for Chase Treasury Solutions at Highland Oaks Business Center in suburban Tampa. Construction began last...

January 12, 2000 BOSTON – Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE:BXP) has paid about $31 million for an office complex that is being constructed in Needham, Mass.The complex sits on a 14.3-acre site and will contain three buildings with 381,000...

January 12, 2000 Stellar Management and Chetrit Group have agreed to pay about $120 million for Park West Village, a 2,517-unit apartment complex that sits next to Manhattan's Central Park.According to the Wall Street Journal, the property is...

January 12, 2000 Cigna Investments provided $40 million of equity financing for the third and fourth phases of the Summit Office Complex in Aliso Viejo, Calif.The two phases will total 1 million square feet in several low- and...

January 12, 2000 HOUSTON – William C. Tyler has joined L.J. Melody & Co. as senior vice president in the firm's Atlanta office. Tyler was formerly senior director of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler. He founded the firm's Atlanta office...

January 12, 2000 Phil Vincent has resigned as president and chief operating officer of Wilshire Financial Services Group (OTC:WFSG).Vincent resigned in order to "pursue personal interests." His responsibilities were immediately assumed by Stephen Glennon, chief executive of Wilshire....

January 12, 2000 NEW YORK – Manhattan's office market was on fire last year.According to Cushman & Wakefield Inc., vacancies hit their lowest levels and asking rents their highest in more than a decade.The real estate firm attributed...

January 12, 2000 HOUSTON – L.J. Melody & Co. has hired Harold (Hal) C. Rose as first vice president in its Los Angeles office.Rose most recently was executive vice president of ARCS Commercial Mortgage, a Fannie Mae lender....

January 12, 2000 WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Keystone Property Trust (AMEX:KTR) has completed a 496,000-square-foot distribution facility in Indianapolis for Brightpoint Inc.The project, which is leased to Brightpoint for 20 years, is projected to generate an 11.5 percent...

January 12, 2000 BOSTON – Riverside Center, a new office building that Equity Office Properties Trust is developing in Newton, Mass., is now 74 percent pre-leased, four months before completion. Two companies – Allaire Corp. and Harvard Vanguard...

January 12, 2000 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE:PPS) has leased up phase II of Post Riverside, a 328-unit apartment building here.Phase II of Post Riverside had a total build-out cost of $46 million, with a funds from...

January 12, 2000 Dutch pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds voor de Gezondheid, Geestelijke en Maatschappelijke Belangen has taken a 5.2 percent interest in JDN Realty Corp. (NYSE:JDN)The fund owns 1.8 million shares of the REIT, as detailed in a...

January 12, 2000 Capital Growth Management LP, a Boston money manager, has accumulated a 10.52 percent interest in Home Properties of New York Inc. (NYSE:HME).In a Form SC 13G/A filed with the SEC, Capital Growth said the shares...

January 11, 2000 Entities of French-based AXA have filed a Form SC 13G/A with the SEC that relates to the companies' combined 4.2 percent stake in Correctional Properties Trust (NYSE:CPV).

January 11, 2000 Amresco Inc. (Nasdaq:AMMB) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC. The report relates to Amresco's sale of its asset management, commercial mortgage banking and real estate structured finance businesses to Lend Lease.

January 11, 2000 Dreman Value Management LLC has accumulated an 11.25 percent interest in Prison Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE:PZN) over the past three months. The firm's purchases were outlined in a Form SC 13D that was filed with...

January 11, 2000 CARY, N.C. – Konover Property Trust Inc. (NYSE:KPT) has sold two of its shopping centers to two private owners for a total of $5.4 million. A 142,000-square-foot property located in Casa Grande, Ariz., and built...

January 11, 2000 Associated PressMILFORD, Conn. – Westfield America (NYSE:WEA) and the city of Milford, Conn., are suing New Haven to stop the construction of a new mall on New Haven's Long Wharf.Their lawsuit alleges that the groups...

January 11, 2000 Criimi Mae will be receiving an estimated $380 million of financing from Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank under a proposed recapitalization plan.Go to Previous Story in the IPGDirect.com ArchiveTerms of the debt call for $100...