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...

December 14, 1999 NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Allied Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ALLC) has sold a 160,000-square-foot office building in Columbia, Md., for $22 million, or $138/sf.The building, which serves as Amerix Corp.'s headquarters, was purchased by Corporate Property Associates 14...

December 14, 1999 CHICAGO – Prime Group Realty Trust (NYSE:PGE) has completed its $238 million purchase of IBM Plaza, a 1.4 million-square-foot office building in Chicago.The REIT financed its acquisition with a $160 million first mortgage from Westdeutsche...

December 14, 1999 AMB Property Corp. (NYSE:AMB) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC.

December 14, 1999 First Union National Bank, Commercial Mortage Trust, Series 1999-C4ClassAmount($mln)Sub. Level(%)RatingS&PRatingDuff & PhelpsAvg.LifePriced(BP)Bnch.MarkA-120626.25AAAAAA5.4+100.5Treas.A-2447.326.25AAAAAA9.7+119.75Treas.B through F*144--AA to BBB-AA to BBB-------G33.26.25BB+NR**10.8----H11.15BBNR11.6----X885.8--AAArAAA9N/A**N/A* Classes B through F, rated AA to BBB-, were pre-purchases and therefore not available.** Not available.

December 14, 1999 Kranzco Realty Trust (NYSE:KRT) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC. The filing includes the Dec. 10 Agreement and Plan of Reorganization and Merger, which details how Kramont, the company formed by a merger...

December 13, 1999 HOUSTON – Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE:WRI) has sold, for $59 million, an 80 percent stake in a 2 million-square-foot portfolio of industrial properties in the Houston area.The portfolio also included 131 acres of unimproved land...

December 13, 1999 NEW YORK – Millennium Partners has secured a $307-million construction loan from a consortium of banking institutions for the development of its mixed-use development at Millennium Place in Boston. The banking institutions providing the loan...

December 13, 1999 Palm Beach Gardens sale could set new recordSouth Florida Business Journal, December13PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Lost Tree Village Corp. has reportedly signed a contract to buy the year-old PGA Financial Plaza in Palm Beach...

December 13, 1999 B.C. funds grab CIBC propertiesThe Globe and Mail, December 11 TORONTO – In what some observers say is the largest real estate sale in the country's history, the British Columbia government's investment arm scooped up...

December 13, 1999 WASHINGTON – New York City has been named the best place in which to invest by foreign real estate investors.For the first time ever, New York topped such U.S. cities as Washington, which came in...

December 13, 1999 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (NYSE:HOT) has formed a venture with Ritz Plaza Hotel Associates, the owner of the Ritz Plaza Hotel in Miami's South Beach area, to renovate and redevelop...

December 13, 1999 CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – CV Reit Inc. (NYSE:CVI) and Kranzco Realty Trust (NYSE:KRT) have agreed to merge. The resulting company will be called Kramont Realty Trust.Under the agreement, each Kranzco and CV REIT share will be...

December 13, 1999 NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. – Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE:KIM) paid $57 million for eight stores that were rented to Hechinger Stores under a master lease agreement.The REIT acquired the fee position of seven stores and...

December 13, 1999 LOS ANGELES – Kilroy Realty Corp. (NYSE:KRC) is launching a share repurchase program for up to three million of the company's common shares.The potential repurchase equals about 11 percent of the company's outstanding shares. The...

December 13, 1999 Capital Group International and Capital Guardian Trust Co. have filed a Form SC 13G with the SEC detailing their holdings in Indymac Mortgage Holdings Inc. (NYSE:NDE). Capital Group holds 7.83 million shares, or 10.2 percent,...

December 13, 1999 NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Equity One Inc. (NYSE:EQY) has completed a tax-deferred exchange of a shopping center in Texas for one in Jacksonville, Fla.The REIT sold Four Corners Shopping Center in Tomball, Texas, for...

December 13, 1999 Wallace R. Weitz & Co. has filed a Form SC 13G/A with the SEC that relates to Weitz's acquisition of 2.1 million common shares in Redwood Trust Inc. (NYSE:RWT).

December 13, 1999First Union National Bank, Commercial Mortage Trust, Series 1999-C4ClassAmount($mln)Sub. Level(%)RatingS&PRatingDuff & PhelpsAvg.LifePricetalk(BP, Treas.)PriceTalk(BP, Libor)A-120626.25AAAAAA5.4+98-100+28-30A-1447.326.25AAAAAA9.7+118-120+37-39.B through F*144--AA to BBB-AA to BBB---Not offered--G33.26.25BB+NR**10.8----H11.15BBNR11.6----X885.8--AAArAAA9N/A**N/A* Classes B through F, rated AA to BBB-, were pre-purchased and therefore not available.** Not...

December 10, 1999 CHICAGO – Cargan City, which is headed by Mike Greco and Fred Fellows, plans to launch a commercial mortgage website next month.The site, MortgageSelector.com will allow borrowers to receive soft quotes on commercial mortgages from...

December 10, 1999 DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners has filed Form 13D with the SEC. The filing details its acquisition of a 16.3 percent interest in Anthracite Capital Inc. (NYSE:AHR) through the purchase of convertible preferred securities.In addition,...

December 10, 1999 CNL plans offices in east OrlandoOrlando Sentinel, December 10ORLANDO, Fla. – CNL Corporate Properties Inc. will build at least half-a-million square feet of offices on 48 acres in east Orlando. Phase I of the development...

December 10, 1999 CHICAGO – Banyan Strategic Realty Trust (NASDAQ:BSRTS) has agreed to sell the Sarasota Commerce Center in Sarasota, Fla., for $13 million, or $160/sf.The buyer is a private investor.Banyan had acquired the 81,250-square-foot building in 1994...

December 10, 1999 NEW YORK – Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. has paid $62 million, or $268/sf, for 201 Spear Street Terrace, an 18-story office building in San Francisco.The property was purchased from Lend Lease Real Estate Investments,...

December 10, 1999 LONDON – LaSalle Investment Management has raised 100 million euros ($100 million) for its Euro 5 Property Fund, an investment vehicle that will buy properties in the recovering real estate markets of France, Italy, Spain,...