December 20, 1999 NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. – The Mashantucket Pequots are asking real estate and marketing firms for advice on the best use of property once considered for a Six Flags theme park. A Mashantucket spokesman says the...

December 20, 1999 Apartment Investment & Management Co. (NYSE:AIV) has filed a Form S-3 with the SEC. This filing relates to the possible sale of up to 510,613 shares of Class A Common Stock.

December 20, 1999 MGI Properties (NYSE:MGIP) has filed Form 8-K with the SEC.

December 20, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo Bank and GMAC Commercial Mortgage and five other commercial mortgage lenders have agreed to take preliminary loan applications through LoopLender, an online loan-origination service.Wells, GMAC, Artesia Mortgage Capital, Cambridge Realty...

December 20, 1999 SPOKANE, Wash – Cavanaughs Hospitality Corp. (NYSE:CVH), an owner and operator of full-service hotels in the Northwest, has agreed to acquire WestCoast Hotels Inc., a competing hotel company based in Seattle.Terms of the deal, which...

December 20, 1999 BCIMC takes on $4-Bln portfolioVancouver Sun, December 18 VANCOUVER – When a little-known arm of the B.C. government last week bought Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's real estate portfolio, the public employees' pension fund was...

December 20, 1999 (NewsTraders.com) -- McDonald Investments analyst Anatole Pevnev initiated coverage of Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) today with a "buy" rating and a 12- to 18-month price target of $31.Pevnev commented that Alexandria operates as a...

December 20, 1999 Trammell Crow is dished a plate full of projects at DisneyOrlando Sentinel, December 20LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The Celebration Co. has hired Trammell Crow to handle sales of commercial property at Celebration Place and...

December 20, 1999 By Debra Beachy, VertiNews.com CorrespondentHOUSTON – Houston's office market cooled down in the third quarter, with the vacancy rate climbing to 12.8 percent from 10.8 percent.But leasing activity should improve, primarily because 17,000 jobs were...

December 20, 1999 JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Nicholas J. Pasquerilla, executive vice president of facilities planning at Crown American Realty Trust (NYSE:CWN), will retire effective Feb. 18.Paquerilla oversaw the construction of more than 47 million square feet of space,...

December 17, 1999 WASHINGTON – REITs can now generate income from a wider variety of activities, thanks to a bill that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The law also reduces the share of taxable income,...

December 17, 1999 (NewsTraders.com) -- Camden Property Trust (NYSE:CPT) is registering to sell up to $660 million of mixed securities under an S-3 shelf filing released by the SEC this afternoon.The securities include debt, warrants, and preferred and...

December 17, 1999 AUSTIN, Texas – SiteStuff.com, a website designed to facilitate the purchase of goods and services by property owners, has raised about $5.5 million of venture-capital funding from Sevin Rosen Funds, Centerpoint Ventures, Rho Management, Ernst...

December 17, 1999 Cornerstone Properties Inc. (NYSE:CPP) is planning to issue 16.2 million common shares to holders of an equal number of shares in Cornerstone Properties LP, the REIT's affiliated limited partnership. The REIT's plan was disclosed in...

December 17, 1999 GARDEN GROVE, Calif. – Bank of America has provided The Abbey Co. with a $100 million revolving credit line backed by five properties. The line is an interest-only, variable-rate vehicle pegged to Libor."It provides for...

December 17, 1999 (NewsTraders.com) -- An investment group including Fixed Income Associates and Bracebridge Capital are unhappy with Capstead Mortgage Corp.'s (CMO) recent deal to sell a portion of itself to another investment party.The Fixed Income group, which...

December 17, 1999 Whispers of La Ronde deal go roundMontreal Gazette, December 17 MONTREAL – A deal may be near that would clear the way for the Reichmann family to build a $1-billion sports and entertainment theme park...

December 17, 1999 (NewsTraders.com) -- Two officers at Ocwen Financial Corp. (NYSE:OCN) combined to sell 117,000 shares of the savings and loan holding company in November, according to Form 4 filings released Dec. 15 by the SEC.Senior Managing...

December 17, 1999 WASHINGTON, DC – Pamela Hinton has been named president of The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Hinton replaces Bonnie S. Gottlieb, who had been president since early 1998.Hinton has been senior vice president of...

December 17, 1999 ORLANDO, Fla. – CNL American Properties Fund Inc. has provided $56.1 million of debt financing to the buyers of 54 Wendy's restaurants in the Memphis, Tenn., area.The financing was provided to Valenti Mid South Management...

December 17, 1999 CV REIT Inc. (NYSE:CVI) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC. This current report includes the Dec. 10 agreement and plan of reorganization and merger among Kranzco, KRT Trust, CV REIT and Kramont Realty...

December 16, 1999 Kilroy Realty Corp. (NYSE:KRC) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC.

December 16, 1999 CLEVELAND – First Union Real Estate Investments (NYSE:FUR) has completed the sale of six southwest regional malls to a joint venture of Whitehall Street Real Estate LP XI (a fund sponsored by Goldman Sachs) and...

December 16, 1999 BETHESDA, Md. – First Washington Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE:FRW) has sold a 63,000-square-foot shopping center in Bolingbrook, Ill., for $9.2 million.A private investment partnership bought Pheasant Hill Plaza with a combination of cash and the...

December 16, 1999 CDC Securitization Corp., Series 1999-FL1ClassAmount($mln)Sub. Level(%)RatingMoody'sRatingFitchAvg.LifePriced(BP)BnchMarkA289.647AAAAAA1.98+45LiborB4139.5AA2AA2.25+68LiborC43.731.5A2A2.98+130LiborD43.723.5BAA2BBB2.98+230LiborE21.919.5NRBBB-2.98+350Libor