October 1, 1999 ATLANTA – Chastain Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:CHAS) said its shareholders have adopted agreements to sell a portion of the company's assets to Insignia Opportunity Partners and to BankBoston.The sale of a $21 million mezzanine loan to...

October 1, 1999 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE:PPS) has completed leasing Post Hyde Park in Tampa, Fla. The 119-unit complex cost $10 million to construct and will generate a return of 11.5 percent.Post Properties owns about 35,467...

October 1, 1999 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Valspar Corp. has paid $4.4 million for a 120,000-square-foot distribution facility in Sacramento's Power Ridge Business Park. The Minneapolis company, one of the five largest paint and coating manufacturers in the...

October 1, 1999 CHICAGO – Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE:EOP) paid $85 million for Palo Alto Square, a 320,500-square-foot office complex that is owned by a partnership controlled by financier Sam Zell.Sam Zell is Equity Office's chairman. The...

October 1, 1999 CRANFORD, N.J. – Mack-Cali Realty Corp. (NYSE:CLI) has leased 95,000 square feet of office space at its 795 Folsom Street property in San Francisco to Rent Net Inc., an internet company.The lease increases the occupany...

October 1, 1999 NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC) has decided to offer for sale its entire downtown Atlanta real estate portfolio. The railroad company has hired Insignia/ESG (NYSE:IFS) to evaluate and market the properties. Perhaps the...

October 1, 1999 Sun Life plans to sell stake in former Montreal headquartersThe National Post, October 1MONTREAL – Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada will sell a half interest in its historic former Montreal head office and its...

September 30, 1999 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Kennedy-Wilson Inc. (NASDAQ:KWIC) has acquired TRF Management Corp., a property management and brokerage firm in Bellevue, Wash.TRF manages some 4 million square feet of commercial space in the Pacific Northwest. The...

September 30, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO – TriNet Corporate Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE:TRI) has purchased a 44,600-square-foot office building in Concord, Mass., for $5.4 million and leased it back under a seven-year agreement to Sybase Inc.In addition, TriNet extended...

September 30, 1999 CHICAGO – Transwestern Commercial Services and Voit Cos. have agreed to merge their property management units creating a company with more than 90 million sf under management. The combined firm's management portfolio would be valued...

September 30, 1999Home Depot eyes site in Port OrangeDaytona Beach News-Journal, September 30PORT ORANGE, Fla. – The Home Depot is planning a 132,000-square-foot store on the city's main commercial thoroughfare, Dunlawton Ave. The company recently purchased 27 acres...

September 30, 1999 DENVER – Archstone Communities (NYSE:ASN) has acquired a total of 781 apartment units in the Chicago and Minneapolis areas for $72.4 million, establishing a beachhead in the Midwest.The company has opened an office in Oak...

September 30, 1999 NEW YORK – New York Life Insurance Co. has provided $63 million of fixed-rate mortgage financing for the HBO Building at

September 30, 1999 DENVER – Archstone Communities (NYSE:ASN) said it has sold $166.3 million of "non-core" properties during the third quarter, bringing total dispositions for the year to $364.7 million.Meanwhile, Archstone's trustees authorized the repurchase of up to...

September 30, 1999 Walden Residential Properties Inc. (NYSE:WDN) has filed a Form SC 13D/A with the SEC regarding its merger with Olympus Real Estate Corp.

September 30, 1999 Cadillac shares rise as it readies to open booksThe National Post, September 30 TORONTO – Yesterday, as Cadillac Fairview Corp. readied itself for a possible sale, the company's stock shot up 4.6%. Analysts speculate that...

September 30, 1999 Wilshire REIT (NYSE:WREI) has filed a Form 8-K with the SEC regarding its decision to become internally managed.

September 30, 1999 NEW YORK -- Hazen & Sawyer PC has signed a 15-year lease for 62,730 square feet of office space at 498 Seventh Avenue. The firm will relocate from 726 Broadway before the end of the...

September 30, 1999 IRVING, Texas – American Industrial Properties REIT (NYSE:IND) has sold the Tucson Tech Center property in Arizona for $4.4 million. The sale of the 115,000-square-foot flex property, which was acquired in May 1998 as part...

September 30, 1999 Grubb & Ellis (NYSE:GBE) has filed

September 29, 1999 Winston Hotels Inc. (NYSE: WXH) has filed a Form S-3/A related to the offer and sale of up to 879,000 common shares by certain shareholders.

September 29, 1999 NEW YORK – Metropolitan Life Insurance has provided $150 million of fixed-rate financing for

September 29, 1999 MONTROSE, Calif. – Anchor Pacifica Management Co. paid $7.1 million for a 129-unit apartment complex in Montrose, Calif.David Elliott and Peter Hauser of Charles Dunn Co.'s Orange County office represented the buyer. Elliot and Hauser...

September 29, 1999 HORSHAM, Pa. – GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. has struck a five-year deal to provide commercial mortgage banking services through Bank One offices in 13 cities. Under the agreement, which goes into effect on January 1,...

September 29, 1999 LOS ANGELES – FowlerShore & Flanagan has paid $17 million, or $53,125/unit, for Desert Oasis Apartments, a 320-unit property in Palm Desert, Calif.FowlerShore, a Sausalito, Calif., apartment owner, purchased the property from Associated Estates Realty...