A venture between WCB Properties and UBS Global Asset Management has paid $92 million for Union Bank Square, a 397,041-square-foot office complex in Orange, Calif.The venture acquired the four-building property from the Colton Co. of Irvine, Calif., which...

GE Real Estate has provided $51.5 million of financing for Paradise Village, a 269,188-square-foot office property in the Phoenix area.The 20-year-old property was acquired earlier this year by a venture between Sterling American Property Inc. and Lincoln Property...

Post Investment Group has paid $23.5 million for Paradise Bay Apartments, a 783-unit complex in Corpus Christi, Texas.The Los Angeles affiliate of Post Properties, which financed the acquisition with $21.5 million of mortgage financing, said it would invest...

General Growth Properties Inc. has paid $950 million for the 50 percent of the GGP/Homart I portfolio of shopping malls that it did not already own. The Chicago REIT purchased the interest from the New York Common Retirement...

  Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnMoody'sNewRatingMoody'sOldRatingReason for Rating ActionCredit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., 2006-TFL1863.61,100.0C34.0AaaAa1Increased subordination; expected pay-off of large loan.---D27.0Aa1Aa2----E29.0Aa2Aa3----F24.0Aa3A1----G25.0A1A2----H25.0A2A3----J27.0Baa1Baa2----K36.0Baa2Baa3----L32.5Baa3Ba1-JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corp., 2003-ML1852.1929.8D22.1AaaAa2Improved collateral performance; defeasance (25 percent of pool)---E12.8Aa2A1----F23.2A2Baa1----G9.3Baa1Baa3-Entertainment Properties Trust, 2003-EPR134.6155.5D5.8A1A2Improved performance...

By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterTA Associates is offering for sale Park Central Plaza, a 148,131-square-foot office complex in Kansas City, Mo.The Boston investment manager is offering the two-building property through the Dallas office of...

Passco Cos. has paid $20 million for a 56,747-square-foot portion of Laveen Village Marketplace, a 197,689-sf retail property in Phoenix. The Irvine, Calif., firm, which generally invests on behalf of tenant-in-common investor groups, acquired the property from Weingarten...

Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnDBRSNewRatingDBRSOldRatingReason for Rating ActionCOMM, 2004-LNB21,172.11,686.0B24.4AAhighAADefeasance (19.4 percent of pool)---C10.7AAAAlow----D22.9AhighA-

Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System and the University of Michigan endowment did not invest in BPG Properties' latest investment vehicle, BPG Investment Partnership VIII. The two institutions had invested in previous BPG funds, but not in the...

Capmark Financial has provided $27 million in financing for 115 Sansome St., a 128,000-square-foot office building in San Francisco.The building is owned by a venture of Swig & Co. and investment manager Angelo, Gordon & Co.Swig had purchased the...

  Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnS&PNewRatingS&POldRatingReason for Rating ActionMorgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital I Inc., 2002-HQ548.5846.0F8.5AA-A+Increased subordination.---G8.5A+A----H14.8A-BBB+----J6.3BBB+BBB----K6.3BBBBBB-----L8.5BBBB-----M6.3B+B----N2.1BB-----B-1-AAAAA+Improved performance, amortization of Woodfield Mall loan.---B-2-AA+AA----B-3-AAAA--Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital I Inc., 2002-IQ2443.7778.6C24.3AA+A+Increased subordination; defeasance (15 percent of pool)---D7.8AA-A-----E7.8A+BBB+----F7.8ABBB----G5.8BBB+BBB-----H9.7BBBBB+----J5.8BB+BB----K3.9BBBB--Nomura Asset Securities Corp.,...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCMBS spreads have widened substantially in the face of what amounts to a barrage of expected issuance and weakness in the structured finance arena in general.Roughly $21 billion of conduits, plus a $1.5...

  Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnMoody'sNewRatingMoody'sOldRatingReason for Rating ActionCredit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., 2006-TFL1863.61,100.0C34.0AaaAa1Increased subordination; expected pay-off of large loan.---D27.0Aa1Aa2----E29.0Aa2Aa3----F24.0Aa3A1----G25.0A1A2----H25.0A2A3----J27.0Baa1Baa2----K36.0Baa2Baa3----L32.5Baa3Ba1-JPMorgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Corp., 2003-ML1852.1929.8D22.1AaaAa2Improved collateral performance; defeasance (25 percent of pool)---E12.8Aa2A1----F23.2A2Baa1----G9.3Baa1Baa3-Entertainment Properties Trust, 2003-EPR134.6155.5D5.8A1A2Improved performance...

Passco Cos. has paid $20 million for a 56,747-square-foot portion of Laveen Village Marketplace, a 197,689-sf retail property in Phoenix. The Irvine, Calif., firm, which generally invests on behalf of tenant-in-common investor groups, acquired the property from Weingarten...

By Jeff Mordock, Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff WriterTA Associates is offering for sale Park Central Plaza, a 148,131-square-foot office complex in Kansas City, Mo.The Boston investment manager is offering the two-building property through the Dallas office of...

Capmark Financial has provided $27 million in financing for 115 Sansome St., a 128,000-square-foot office building in San Francisco.The building is owned by a venture of Swig & Co. and investment manager Angelo, Gordon & Co.Swig had purchased the...

Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnDBRSNewRatingDBRSOldRatingReason for Rating ActionCOMM, 2004-LNB21,172.11,686.0B24.4AAhighAADefeasance (19.4 percent of pool)---C10.7AAAAlow----D22.9AhighA-

Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System and the University of Michigan endowment did not invest in BPG Properties' latest investment vehicle, BPG Investment Partnership VIII. The two institutions had invested in previous BPG funds, but not in the...

  Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnS&PNewRatingS&POldRatingReason for Rating ActionMorgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital I Inc., 2002-HQ548.5846.0F8.5AA-A+Increased subordination.---G8.5A+A----H14.8A-BBB+----J6.3BBB+BBB----K6.3BBBBBB-----L8.5BBBB-----M6.3B+B----N2.1BB-----B-1-AAAAA+Improved performance, amortization of Woodfield Mall loan.---B-2-AA+AA----B-3-AAAA--Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital I Inc., 2002-IQ2443.7778.6C24.3AA+A+Increased subordination; defeasance (15 percent of pool)---D7.8AA-A-----E7.8A+BBB+----F7.8ABBB----G5.8BBB+BBB-----H9.7BBBBB+----J5.8BB+BB----K3.9BBBB--Nomura Asset Securities Corp.,...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCMBS spreads have widened substantially in the face of what amounts to a barrage of expected issuance and weakness in the structured finance arena in general.Roughly $21 billion of conduits, plus a $1.5...

ProLogis is paying $1.85 billion for a portfolio of 114 industrial properties with 24.7 million square feet owned by DP Industrial, a venture capitalized by the California State Teachers Retirement System.The portfolio, with properties in Las Vegas and...

LaSalle Investment Management has paid $33.5 million for Village at Lee Branch, a 194,629-square-foot retail property in Birmingham, Ala.The investment manager bought the property from AIG Baker, which is headquartered in Birmingham. LaSalle was represented by Faris Lee...

Wells REIT II Inc. has paid $116 million for Pasadena Corporate Park, a three-building office complex with 265,000 square feet in Pasadena, Calif.The property, at 3453, 3455, 3465 and 3475 East Foothill Boulevard, was purchased from IndyMac Bancorp,...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportAIG Mortgage Capital has committed to lend $103.2 million for 415 Greenwich St., a former data center in Manhattan's TribeCa neighborhood that is being converted into residential condominiums.The financing is in the form...

LaSalle Investment Management has paid $32 million for an 80,000-square-foot office building in Sunnyvale, Calif.A joint venture of McMorgan & Co., a pension fund advisor, and local developer South Bay Development sold the building, which sits on 5.9...