By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterThe Buccini/Pollin Group has agreed to pay $28 million for Crozier Center, a 453,099-square-foot office complex in Newark, Del.The Wilmington, Del., developer is purchasing the five-building property from Bank of...

HRPT Properties Trust has priced $250 million of senior unsecured notes through bookrunners Wachovia Securities, Merrill Lynch and UBS Securities.The offering is the second this year for the Newton, Mass., REIT. Its earlier issue, which priced in June,...

Wachovia Securities has combined its real estate capital markets, financial services and investment banking groups in its real estate financial services group and moved that operation into its corporate and investment bank from its general bank.The integration is...

Kennedy Wilson has paid $131 million for Oaks at Westlake, a 354,341-square-foot office building in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, Calif.The Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate firm purchased the property on behalf of its KWI Property...

A group of New Jersey investors has acquired New England Village Garden Apartments, a 133-unit complex in Summit, N.J., for $30 million.The complex was sold by a family that has owned the property since its construction in 1950....

KBS REIT Inc. has paid $35.1 million for 2200 West Loop South, a 196,217-square-foot office building in Houston.The Newport Beach, Calif., company, a non-traded REIT managed by KBS Realty Advisors, financed its purchase with $17.4 million of debt....

Wachovia Securities has combined its real estate capital markets, financial services and investment banking groups in its real estate financial services group and moved that operation into its corporate and investment bank from its general bank.The integration is...

A group of New Jersey investors has acquired New England Village Garden Apartments, a 133-unit complex in Summit, N.J., for $30 million.The complex was sold by a family that has owned the property since its construction in 1950....

In a deal completed just before the window on such financings closed, Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. lined up $33 million of permanent financing with a five-year interest-only period for the Hilton Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the...

Developers Diversified Corp. has sold its Lake Walden Square shopping center in suburban Tampa, Fla., to a venture it operates with Macquarie DDR Trust for $23 million.Lake Walden, a 262,000-square-foot property, is 50 percent occupied and anchored by...

Kennedy Wilson has paid $131 million for Oaks at Westlake, a 354,341-square-foot office building in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, Calif.The Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate firm purchased the property on behalf of its KWI Property...

KBS REIT Inc. has paid $35.1 million for 2200 West Loop South, a 196,217-square-foot office building in Houston.The Newport Beach, Calif., company, a non-traded REIT managed by KBS Realty Advisors, financed its purchase with $17.4 million of debt....

In a deal completed just before the window on such financings closed, Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. lined up $33 million of permanent financing with a five-year interest-only period for the Hilton Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the...

Developers Diversified Corp. has sold its Lake Walden Square shopping center in suburban Tampa, Fla., to a venture it operates with Macquarie DDR Trust for $23 million.Lake Walden, a 262,000-square-foot property, is 50 percent occupied and anchored by...

Duke Realty Corp. last Thursday sold $300 million of senior unsecured notes through bookrunners JPMorgan Securities, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank.Duke, an Indianapolis office and industrial property REIT, said it would use proceeds of the offering to...

Liquid Realty Partners has committed to invest $23.4 million in an opportunity in the gaming sector and in a new investment fund.The San Francisco investment manager, which generally buys interests in other funds, is making a co-investment in...

Starwood Capital Group has formed a venture with John Peshkin, the former head of a major homebuilder, which will pursue the acquisition, development and financing of residential land in certain potentially high growth markets throughout the country.Starwood raised...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCarlyle Group has raised $3 billion of equity commitments for its latest domestic opportunistic investment fund.The fund, Carlyle Realty Partners V, is targeting office, hotel, industrial, retail, multifamily and seniors housing properties in...

Liquid Realty Partners has committed to invest $23.4 million in an opportunity in the gaming sector and in a new investment fund.The San Francisco investment manager, which generally buys interests in other funds, is making a co-investment in...

Starwood Capital Group has formed a venture with John Peshkin, the former head of a major homebuilder, which will pursue the acquisition, development and financing of residential land in certain potentially high growth markets throughout the country.Starwood raised...

Duke Realty Corp. last Thursday sold $300 million of senior unsecured notes through bookrunners JPMorgan Securities, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank.Duke, an Indianapolis office and industrial property REIT, said it would use proceeds of the offering to...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCarlyle Group has raised $3 billion of equity commitments for its latest domestic opportunistic investment fund.The fund, Carlyle Realty Partners V, is targeting office, hotel, industrial, retail, multifamily and seniors housing properties in...

Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnMoody'sNewRatingMoody'sOldRatingReason for Rating ActionAsset Securitization Corp., 1997-MD VII32.5499.6A-326.7AaaBaa1Full defeasanceGE Capital Commercial Mortgage Corp., 2001-2797.41,000.0C45.1AaaAa1Increased subordination; defeasance (23.2 percent of pool)---D12.5Aa2Aa3----E10.0Aa3A2----F18.8A3Baa2----G11.3Baa1Baa3-GE Capital Commercial Mortgage Corp., 2002-1910.21,000.0D16.9AaaAa2Defeasance (25.2 percent of pool)---E10.4Aa1Aa3----F13.0Aa3A2----G18.2A3Baa2----H10.4Baa1Baa3-First Union ??" Bank of America Commercial...

BioMed Realty Trust has paid $16.5 million for Pacific Corporate Park, a 66,745-square-foot office and research complex in the San Diego suburb of Sorrento Mesa, Calif.The San Diego REIT purchased the two-building complex from a venture between the...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportThe Radisson Denver Southeast, a 479-room hotel in Aurora, Colo., is being offered for sale.The property, constructed during the 1980s, is owned by Malaga LLC, a Denver-area opportunistic investor that had acquired it...