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...

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...

KBS REIT has agreed to make a $21 million investment in the $42 million of mezzanine debt that is helping fund the conversion of the north building of Manhattan's One Madison Ave. complex into residential condominiums.The 41-story building,...

BentleyForbes has paid $235 million for 350 and 450 Las Olas Centre, a 469,199-square-foot office complex in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.The Los Angeles real estate firm purchased the property from a venture between Colonial Properties Trust and a fund...

ING Clarion has paid $47 million for Lincoln Park III, a 202,990-square-foot office building in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Herndon, Va.The investment manager purchased the property from a venture between Lincoln Property Co. and Goldman Sachs, which...

A venture between Weingarten Realty and AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust has paid $150 million for three retail properties totaling 715,000 square feet.The AFL-CIO Trust invested through PNC Realty Investors.Weingarten will manage and lease the properties, which are in...

Triple Net Properties has purchased two downtown Austin, Texas, office properties totaling 751,000 square feet.The two properties are the 433,000-sf 816 Congress and the 318,000-sf Avallon office complex. They were acquired from Crescent Real Estate Equities of Fort...

GE Real Estate has provided $54.4 million of financing to KS Partners for its acquisition of a 10-building portfolio of office and industrial buildings in the Boston suburb of Braintree, Mass.KS, led by Kambiz Shahbazi, a former founder...

Arden Realty has paid $45.5 million for the Scottsdale Center, a 167,000-square-foot office complex in suburban Phoenix.The Los Angeles firm, which GE Real Estate acquired last year, is buying the five-building complex from an affiliate of CMD Realty...

Post Investment Group has paid $22 million for two Dallas apartment buildings totaling 682 units.The Los Angeles company paid Strand Properties $13 million for Park Village Apartments, a 350-unit complex at 7575 S. Westmoreland Rd., and $9 million...

LEM Mezzanine has hired John Christen, a former senior vice-president with RAIT Financial Trust, as managing director to focus on loan originations.Christen will originate a variety of loan products, including mezzanine and bridge loans, B-notes and other structured...

GE Real Estate has provided $54.4 million of financing to KS Partners for its acquisition of a 10-building portfolio of office and industrial buildings in the Boston suburb of Braintree, Mass.KS, led by Kambiz Shahbazi, a former founder...

RiverOak Investment Corp. has raised another $25 million of equity from a group of high net-worth investors for its latest value-add investment vehicle, RiverOak Fund IV.The Stamford, Conn., company, is led by Stephen DeNardo and George Yerrall. Both...

Triple Net Properties has purchased two downtown Austin, Texas, office properties totaling 751,000 square feet.The two properties are the 433,000-sf 816 Congress and the 318,000-sf Avallon office complex. They were acquired from Crescent Real Estate Equities of Fort...

Arden Realty has paid $45.5 million for the Scottsdale Center, a 167,000-square-foot office complex in suburban Phoenix.The Los Angeles firm, which GE Real Estate acquired last year, is buying the five-building complex from an affiliate of CMD Realty...

Post Investment Group has paid $22 million for two Dallas apartment buildings totaling 682 units.The Los Angeles company paid Strand Properties $13 million for Park Village Apartments, a 350-unit complex at 7575 S. Westmoreland Rd., and $9 million...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCredit Suisse provided $287.2 million of debt to CapitalSource Inc. for its recent purchase of skilled-nursing facilities from Health Care Property Investors.A total of $250 million of the debt is comprised of senior...

RiverOak Investment Corp. has raised another $25 million of equity from a group of high net-worth investors for its latest value-add investment vehicle, RiverOak Fund IV.The Stamford, Conn., company, is led by Stephen DeNardo and George Yerrall. Both...

LEM Mezzanine has hired John Christen, a former senior vice-president with RAIT Financial Trust, as managing director to focus on loan originations.Christen will originate a variety of loan products, including mezzanine and bridge loans, B-notes and other structured...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCountrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance has provided $46.18 million of acquisition financing for the Northwood Centre office building in Tallahassee, Fla. The Calabasas, Calif., lender provided the 10-year mortgage to Ajax Investment Partners...

BPG Properties Ltd. has raised $850 million of investor commitments for its latest investment vehicle, BPG Investment Partnership VIII.The fund is the largest ever raised by BPG, a Philadelphia investment manager that has raised more than $2.8 billion...

Aspen Management Co. has sold the Ranch Center, a 60,022-square-foot retail property in the Los Angeles suburb of Diamond Bar, Calif., for $15.7 million, or $262/sf.The Tarzana, Calif., firm sold the property to an El Monte, Calif., investor...

A venture led by ING Clarion Partners has paid $28 million for the Valley Parkway Health Center, a 70,000-square-foot medical office building in San Diego's Escondido area.The venture, with Montecito Medical Co., was formed earlier this year to...

BPG Properties Ltd. has paid $57.75 million for Financial Plaza, a 310,000-square-foot office building in Mesa, Ariz.The 16-story property, at Alma School Road and Southern Ave. in suburban Phoenix, was purchased from Crescent Real Estate Equities, which had...