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).

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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 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 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 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 10, 1999 BALTIMORE – Prime Retail Inc. (NYSE:PRT) has raised $42.5 million of debt to refinance the existing mortgage on Prime Outlets at Williamsburg, Va.The REIT received an initial funding of $32.5 million and a commitment for...

December 10, 1999 NEW YORK – Loews Hotels has signed a letter of intent to build a 432-unit hotel in Boston with Sawyer Enterprises.The 28-story Loews Boston will be built on the corner of Tremont and Stuart streets...

December 10, 1999 By By Nina Suebsukcharoen, VertiNews.com CorrespondentBANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand's property market has finally turned the corner after being walloped by the economic downturn that swept the region in 1997.One sign of the broad-based recovery is...

December 10, 1999 NEW YORK – Bovis Lend Lease is the new name of the construction and project management company created by Lend Lease Corp.'s acquisition of the Bovis Group. Go to Previous Story in the VertiNews.com ArchiveBovis...

December 10, 1999 By B.J. Lee, VertiNews.com CorrespondentSEOUL, South Korea – Korea Asset Management Corp. (KAMCO) has sold $897 million of nonperforming loans to four foreign investor groups: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lone Star Korea and a venture...

December 10, 1999 Associated PressATLANTA – Turner Broadcasting is planning a $90-million expansion of its entertainment headquarters in an effort to accommodate growth and lure more talent to Atlanta. Construction of two new office buildings will begin early...

December 10, 1999 United Investors Realty Trust (NYSE:UIRT) has filed a five Form 4 statements (Statements of Changes of Beneficial Ownership) with the SEC.

December 10, 1999 Mack Cali Realty Corp. (NYSE:CLI) has filed a Form 4 (Statement of Changes of BeneficialOwnership) with the SEC.

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,...