October 11, 1999 CHICAGO – Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE:EOP) said it is in talks to form a joint venture with Lend Lease Real Estate Investments that would buy certain Equity Office properties.Forming joint ventures with institutional investors...

October 11, 1999 Allied Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ALLC) has filed a Form S-8 with the SEC.

October 11, 1999 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Colonial Properties Trust (NYSE:CLP) has signed Mortgage America Inc. as the lead tenant at its new 146,000-square-foot office facility in Birmingham. The mortgage company will occupy 17,000-sf at 1800 International Park in...

October 11, 1999 CREIT sweetens bid for AvistaThe National Post, October 11TORONTO – Unsure it would be able to receive the support of two-thirds of Avista REIT's shareholders, Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust has upped its offer for...

October 11, 1999 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Montgomery CV Realty LP, a subsidiary of CV REIT Inc. (NYSE:CVI), has agreed to buy Marlton Green Shopping Center in Marlton, N.J., for a combination of cash, debt and partnership...

October 11, 1999 CHICAGO – Three tenants have signed leases for more than 150,000 square feet at the Insurance Exchange Building at 175 West Jackson Boulevard.The tenants are the first three for the 87-year-old building, which is undergoing...

October 8, 1999 By Lisa Finnegan, VertiNews.com CorrespondentNEW YORK – Major League Baseball has signed a 10-year lease for 25,000 square feet of space at Chelsea Market.The unit will use the space on floors five and six for...

October 8, 1999 By Dan Whipple, VertiNews.com CorrespondentDENVER – Richmond Homes is set to purchase 320 acres of land north of Denver for $13.4 million from the Archdiocese of Denver. The deal is under contract and expected to...

October 8, 1999 Mall aims to be differentTampa Tribune, October 8TAMPA, Fla. – The Taubman Co is set to begin construction on International Plaza, a $200 million project with 1.2 million square feet of retail space and 6,000...

October 8, 1999 Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. (NYSE:SSI) has filed a Form SC 13E3/A with the SEC. The filing refers to the company's decision to go private through a merger with an affiliate of Westbrook Partners.

October 7, 1999 Walden Residential Properties Inc. (NYSE:WDN) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC regarding its proposed merger with a venture led by Olympus Real Estate.

October 7, 1999 Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:HOT) has filed a Form POS AM with the SEC. The filing is an amendment to an S-4 that Starwood had filed earlier. The amendment relates to the substitution of Vistana...

ATLANTA – Gables Residential Trust (NYSE:GBP) has sold two properties in Memphis for $30.5 million.Gables Germantown and Gables Quail Ridge, which together consist of 490 apartment homes, were sold with a capitalization rate of 8.6 percent.With the sales...

October 7, 1999 By Lisa Finnegan, VertiNews.com Correspondent NEW YORK – Aegon Realty Advisors beat out 17 other lenders and will provide a $45 million first mortgage on the SouthTrust Tower in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.The 337,000-square-foot office building...

October 7, 1999 HONOLULU (AP) – Development group Ko Olina Co. and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers have agreed to buy the Ihilani Resort & Spa from a subsidiary of Japan Airlines Inc. Ko Olina Co. and Cornerstone Real...

October 7, 1999 Montreal's commercial real estate market on reboundThe National Post, October 7MONTREAL – Montreal's commercial real-estate market seems to be on the rebound, thanks in part to the city's retooled economy. The downtown office vacancy rate...

October 7, 1999 SEATTLE – Redbricks.com LLC is launching a website that would allow prospective borrowers to query a variety of lenders for mortgage financing. The website, www.redbricks.com, will be formally launched in early November.Initially, more than 20...

October 7, 1999 Three large apartment complexes sell for $39.3 MlnBradenton Tribune-Review, October 7BRADENTON, Fla. – Town and Country Trust bought three large apartment complexes containing a total of 742 apartments for $39.3 million. The Baltimore REIT purchased...

October 7, 1999 Carramerica Realty Corp (NYSE:CRE) has filed a Form S-8 with the SEC.

October 7, 1999 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – A joint venture between Meadowbrook Golf Group Inc. and Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund IV has completed the purchase of KSL Fairways Golf Corp., which was renamed Fairways Golf Corp.Terms of...

October 7, 1999 NEW YORK – Banco Santander Central Hispano has named Cushman & Wakefield as exclusive leasing agent to sublet 280,000 square feet of office space in Manhattan.Santander has 198,000 sf at 1251 Avenue of the Americas,...

October 7, 1999BALTIMORE – The Town and Country Trust (NYSE:TCT) has acquired three garden-style apartment communities in Sarasota and Bradenton, Fla., and sold one community in Harrisburg,Pa.The two Sarasota and one Bradenton communities – Heron's Run, McIntosh, and...

October 7, 1999 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Midland Loan Services Inc., a unit of PNC Bank Corp. (NYSE:PNC) has expanded its menu of loan products with the addition of FHA multi-family and nursing home construction and permanent loans....

October 7, 1999 PALO ALTO, Calif. – Essex Property Trust Inc. (NYSE:ESS) paid $35 million, or $78,500/unit, for Avondale at Warner Center, a 446-unit apartment complex in the Woodland Hills area of the West San Fernando Valley.The property...

October 7, 1999 WASHINGTON – CarrAmerica Realty Corp. (NYSE:CRE) has postponed plans to spin off its HQ Global Workplaces affiliate because of weak market conditions.CarrAmerica planned to spin-off the company, an office outsourcing firm, through an initial public...