September 8, 1999 NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Bradley Real Estate Inc.'s (NYSE: BTR) affiliated operating partnership has placed $25 million of 8.875 percent series C cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred with an institutional investor.The units are callable after five years,...

September 8, 1999 Summit finally gets hostile in Avista bidThe National Post, September 8 TORONTO – As expected, Summit Real Estate Investment Trust has made a hostile bid for Avista REIT. However, Avista's board of trustees has already...

September 8, 1999 LAS VEGAS – A unit of Kennedy-Wilson Inc. (NASDAQ: KWIC) has been hired by Pacific Properties and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance to manage and lease the Pacific Business Center, a 676,000-square-foot industrial complex that was...

September 8, 1999 CLEVELAND – Associated Estates Realty Corp. (NYSE: AEC) has sold the Desert Oasis Apartments for $17.1 million or nearly $53,500/unit.The sales price gives the buyer a capitalization rate of 7.6 percent based on this years...

September 8, 1999LOS ANGELES – Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: AXM) has set a third-quarter dividend of 46 cents/share payable Oct. 15 to shareholders of record Sept. 30. The dividend is 70 percent higher than the one paid...

September 8, 1999 PALO ALTO, Calif. – Essex Property Trust Inc. (NYSE: ESS) paid $62 million, or $84,700/unit, for Coronado at Newport, a 732-unit apartment complex in Newport Beach, Calif.Essex is evaluating forming a joint venture with another...

September 8, 1999LOS ANGELES – Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: AXM) has offered to acquire Impac Commercial Holdings Inc. (AMEX: ICH) in a stock swap that values Impac at $78 million, or $7.09/share.Each Impac share would be swapped...

September 8, 1999 By Hans Greimel, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The whiz-kid founder of Wilshire Financial Services Group and his number two executive have been fired by the company's board in a disagreement over how...

September 8, 1999NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Grubb & Ellis Co. (NYSE: GBE) has named J.D. Kelley national director of strategic services and director of its corporate services group, which is based in Dallas.Kelley was formerly executive managing director of...

September 8, 1999MENLO PARK, Calif. – Spieker Properties Inc. (NYSE: SPK) intends to start construction on a 16-story, 330,000 square foot office tower at its Watergate Office Towers complex in Emeryville, Calif. by the end of this year....

September 7, 1999 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Summit Properties Inc. (NYSE: SMT) has raised $55 million by issuing, through its affiliated operating partnership, perpetual preferred units to an institutional investor.The 2.2 million Series C cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units...

September 7, 1999 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Koger Equity Inc. (AMEX: KE) said it completed the sale of two office parks totaling 1.1 million square feet in Charlotte and Jacksonville to Lennar Partners Inc. (NYSE: LNR) for $70 million,...

September 7, 1999 GREENWICH, Conn. – Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBP) paid $9.5 million for the 80,000-square-foot Towne Centre Shopping Center in Somers, Westchester County, N.Y.The property, anchored by a Gristede's supermarket, is 95 percent occupied. It...

September 7, 1999 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Taubman Centers Inc. (NYSE:TCO) said it raised $75 million through the private placement of 9 percent cumulative preferred partnership equity in the Taubman Realty Group LP. The preferred equity was purchased...

September 7, 1999 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Hudson Hotels Corp. (NASDAQ: HUDS) has been awarded the management contracts to the Best Western D/FW Airport Suits and the Clarion Inn and Suites D/FW North, two adjoining hotels next to the...

September 7, 1999 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE: PPS) raised $70 million through a private placement of 8 percent preferred equity securities.The securities were issued by Post Apartment Homes LP, the REIT's operating partnership. They were placed...

September 7, 1999 By The Associated PressBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)- Hilton Hotels Corp., owner of New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria and other properties, will acquire Promus Hotel Corp. for $4 billion plus the assumption of debt, the hotel operator...

September 7, 1999 A developer reshapes a Brighton Beach project New York Times, September 5BRIGHTON BEACH, N.Y. – Developer Joshua L. Muss is a man of patience who is waiting for the magic formula of permits and financing...

September 7, 1999ROSELAND, N.J. – Chelsea GCA Realty Inc. (NYSE: CCG) said its affiliated operating partnership, Chelsea GCA Realty Partnership LP, has raised $65 million by privately placing series B cumulative redeemable preferred units with one institutional investor.The...

September 7, 1999Starmount, Lindbrook plan medical buildingsThe Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, September 7GREENSBORO, N.C. – Starmount Co. is entering the medical office realm with a 50,000-square-foot building for Moses Cone Health System, while market veteran...

September 7, 1999 Soaring real estate values trigger cuts in Metro tax billsThe Detroit News , September 7DETROIT – Real estate values are steadily inclining around Metro Detroit and a state law is forcing property taxes to roll...

September 7, 1999 By The Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – REALCO, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLCO) has acquired TI Construction, a multi-state commercial construction company located in Albuquerque. Amity Inc., a wholly owned commercial construction subsidiary of Realco, acquired the name,...

September 7, 1999 Summit mulls making a hostile bid for AvistaThe National Post, September 7 TORONTO – Summit Real Estate Investment Trust's board of trustees will decide today whether to launch a hostile bid for Avista REIT. The...

September 7, 1999 NEW YORK – The construction management and development firm Jeffrey M. Brown Associates Inc. has named Edward Opall as its new chief financial officer, and hired Hector Batista as vice president of corporate affairs.Opall is...

September 7, 1999 Building sale signals market revivalHouston Business Journal, September 7HOUSTON – A major office building has changed hands in the Galleria area's biggest investment sale of the year. The glassy, half-circular Tractebel Building at the edge...