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 LABELLE, Fla.– Alico Inc., an agricultural company in Florida, has agreed to sell 2,500 acres of land in Lee County to Naples/Dallas Venture Inc. for $50 million.Naples/Dallas, whose principals include Florida Real Estate Consultants, will...

December 16, 1999 Miami firm offers bid on Equitable BuildingAtlanta Journal-Constitution, December 16ATLANTA – Parmenter Co. is negotiating with Jones Lang LaSalle and Nippon Landic Co. to buy the 594,000-square-foot Equitable Building on Peachtree Street in downtown. The...

December 16, 1999 Franchise Finance Corp. of America (NYSE:FFA) has filed a Form S-8 with the SEC. This registration statement relates to an additional 1.5 million shares of the company's common stock including the preferred share purchase issuable...

December 16, 1999 B.C. Pension fund eyes Sun Life buildingNational Post, December 16TORONTO – Fresh off the massive purchase of the property portfolio of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. has made an...

December 15, 1999 Ohio firm to start work on Southpoint office developmentFlorida Times-Union, December 15JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Ohio-based Miller-Valentine Group plans to start construction this month on an $11-million office development in Southpoint. Plans call for a three-story,...

December 15, 1999 Bell sells property unit National Post, December 15TORONTO – Bell Canada will sell its wholly owned property management unit to Profac Facilities Management Services Inc., a joint venture owned by Bracknell Corp. and SNC-Lavalin Inc....

December 15, 1999 ATLANTA – JDN Realty Corp. (NYSE:JDN) has sold three North Carolina shopping centers with a total of 1 million square feet of space to a private REIT affiliated with a pension fund for $78.5 million.JDN...

December 15, 1999 Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $100 million to Colgate-Palmolive for three development sites on 20 acres on the Jersey City waterfront.According to the Wall Street Journal, the investment bank will construct a massive mixed-use...

December 15, 1999 Tishman Speyer Properties has agreed to pay $540 million, or $415/sf, for 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, according to the Wall Street Journal.The 1.3 million-square-foot office building is being purchased from Sumitomo Realty &...

December 15, 1999 CHICAGO – Lend Lease US Office Trust, a unit of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments Inc., has completed the purchase, for $533.9 million, of an interest in seven office buildings owned by Equity Office Properties...

December 15, 1999 NEW YORK – Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. has upgraded $591 million of cumulative preferred stock of Apartment Investment and Management Co. (NYSE:AIV) to double-B-plus from double-B.The upgrade is based on improvement in AIMCO's...

December 15, 1999 Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE:EOP) has filed a Form 8-K (Current Report) withthe SEC.

December 15, 1999 LOS ANGELES – GIC Real Estate Inc., the real estate investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investmetn Corp., has committed to invest $20 million to Commercial Mortgage Investment Trust Inc., a private REIT managed...

December 15, 1999 NEW YORK – Lexington Corporate Properties Trust (NYSE:LXP) has sold a 133,861-square-foot retail property in Federal Way, Wash., for $15.2 million.The property is net-leased to Eagle Hardware & Garden Inc., which pays $1.23 million of...

December 15, 1999Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO – Oil giant Chevron Corp. has sold its two San Francisco headquarters buildings to a venture between Tishman Speyer and Travelers Insurance for $189 million, or $252/sf.The two buildings are at 555 Market...

December 15, 1999 SEATTLE – Franchise Finance Corp. of America (NYSE:FFA) has struck an agreement to sell loans that it originates to Washington Mutual Inc. (NYSE:WM). But the lender is still planning to securitize up to $400 million...

December 14, 1999 Wellington Properties Trust (AMEX:RPPa) has filed a Form DEF 14A with the SEC. The proxy has been filed in preparation for Wellington's annual shareholders' meeting in Minneapolis on Dec. 29.

December 14, 1999 Franklin Select Realty Trust (AMEX:FSN) has filed a Form DEFS14A with the SEC. The proxy is filed in preparation for a special shareholders' meeting to be held on Jan. 25 in San Mateo, Calif.

December 14, 1999 REIT to focus on Orlando holdingsOrlando Sentinel, December 14ORLANDO, Fla. – Highwoods Properties is closing next week on the sale of 21 properties in Orlando and Tampa for $165.3 million. But the REIT is moving...

December 14, 1999 NEW YORK – Cornerstone Properties (NYSE:CPP) paid a private investment partnership $36 million for Parkside Towers, a fully entitled development project in Foster City, Calif.At the same time the REIT sold Belmont Shores, a 142,000-square-foot...

December 14, 1999 BALTIMORE – Municipal Mortgage & Equity LLC (NYSE:MMA) has structured $14.2 million of tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds for the property known as Meridian at Bridgewater, an assisted-living facility in Bridgewater, N.J.The 30-year bonds, issued by...

December 14, 1999 Wellington Properties Trust (NYSE: RPP) has filed a Form DEF 14A (Definitive Proxy Statement) with the SEC.

December 14, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO – T. Robert Burke, chairman and a founder of AMB Property Corp. (NYSE:AMB) will retire at the end of the year. His retirement was one of several executive changes announced by the REIT...

December 14, 1999NEW YORK – Stephen B. Hansen, former senior vice president with Boston Financial, has joined Clarion Partners as a director responsible for portfolio management and investment activities.Clarion, a pension-fund adviser, manages some $8 billion of real...