Prime Group Realty Trust has invested $120 million in Lightstone Group's $8 billion acquisition of Extended Stay Hotels.The Chicago REIT, which was purchased by Lighstone two years ago, funded its investment in the entity that acquired Extended Stay...

  Deal NameCurrentPoolBal. $mlnOrig.PoolBal $mlnClassSize$mlnDBRSNewRatingDBRSOldRatingReason for Rating ActionBear Stearns Commercial Mortgage Securities Inc., 2004-ESA665.52,050.0F43.0AAAAAhighDefeasance (100 percent)---G43.0AAAAA----H40.0AAAAAlow----J67.0AAAA- 

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportThe first CMBS conduit of the second half has launched. And the subordination level of its BBB bond class is 5 percent, substantially higher than the 4.03 percent average for all conduits during...

The Blackstone Group has agreed to pay $26 billion for Hilton Hotels Corp., the second largest hotel chain in the country.Blackstone will pay $47.50 for each share of Hilton common stock and assume $6 billion of debt. The...

Frank Petz has joined the Boston office of Eastdil Secured as managing director. He will join James McCaffrey and Peter Joseph, who launched the Boston office of the real estate brokerage firm earlier this year. Petz joins Eastdil...

The Paramount Group has purchased the Waterview, a 634,000-square-foot office building under construction in Rossyln, Va. A sales price was not disclosed, but the property was said to have traded for around $425 million. The New York real...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCarlyle Group is positioned to take out considerable mortgage debt to fund its $6.3 billion purchase of Manor Care Inc.Earlier this week, the board of Manor Care accepted Carlyle's takeover offer bid of...

Stiles Capital Partners has paid $24 million for Southpoint Executive Center, a 137,000-square-foot office building in Maitland, Fla.The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., real estate firm purchased the property from Younan Properties Inc. of Los Angeles. Younan marketed the building,...

Phillips Edison & Co. has purchased Powell Villa, a 61,908-square-foot retail property in Portland, Ore.A purchase price was not disclosed, but retail properties in Portland are trading for $165/sf, according to data from Real Capital Analytics. That would...

GE Pension Trust has completed its $200 million acquisition of Pacific Center, a 438,960-square-foot office property in Mission Valley, Calif.The pension trust is buying the two-building complex from Maguire Properties, which marketed it through Eastdil Secured.Pacific Center, which...

Frank Petz has joined the Boston office of Eastdil Secured as managing director. He will join James McCaffrey and Peter Joseph, who launched the Boston office of the real estate brokerage firm earlier this year. Petz joins Eastdil...

The Paramount Group has purchased the Waterview, a 634,000-square-foot office building under construction in Rossyln, Va. A sales price was not disclosed, but the property was said to have traded for around $425 million. The New York real...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportCarlyle Group is positioned to take out considerable mortgage debt to fund its $6.3 billion purchase of Manor Care Inc.Earlier this week, the board of Manor Care accepted Carlyle's takeover offer bid of...

The Blackstone Group has agreed to pay $26 billion for Hilton Hotels Corp., the second largest hotel chain in the country.Blackstone will pay $47.50 for each share of Hilton common stock and assume $6 billion of debt. The...

GE Pension Trust has completed its $200 million acquisition of Pacific Center, a 438,960-square-foot office property in Mission Valley, Calif.The pension trust is buying the two-building complex from Maguire Properties, which marketed it through Eastdil Secured.Pacific Center, which...

Stiles Capital Partners has paid $24 million for Southpoint Executive Center, a 137,000-square-foot office building in Maitland, Fla.The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., real estate firm purchased the property from Younan Properties Inc. of Los Angeles. Younan marketed the building,...

Phillips Edison & Co. has purchased Powell Villa, a 61,908-square-foot retail property in Portland, Ore.A purchase price was not disclosed, but retail properties in Portland are trading for $165/sf, according to data from Real Capital Analytics. That would...

Triple Net Properties has purchased Century Hills, a 200-unit apartment complex in Augusta, Ga. The Santa Ana, Calif., real estate firm purchased the complex on behalf of tenant-in-common investors from Centennial Investment Properties. Centennial, an Atlanta multifamily firm,...

A venture between Sterling American Property Inc. and Westdale Asset Management has paid $156 million for two suburban Los Angeles apartment buildings totaling 924 units.The venture purchased the properties from ScanlanKemperBard Cos. of Portland, Ore.The properties are Waterstone...

Triple Net Properties has purchased Century Hills, a 200-unit apartment complex in Augusta, Ga. The Santa Ana, Calif., real estate firm purchased the complex on behalf of tenant-in-common investors from Centennial Investment Properties. Centennial, an Atlanta multifamily firm,...

A venture between Sterling American Property Inc. and Westdale Asset Management has paid $156 million for two suburban Los Angeles apartment buildings totaling 924 units.The venture purchased the properties from ScanlanKemperBard Cos. of Portland, Ore.The properties are Waterstone...

SL Green Realty Corp. has paid $147.6 million for a 45 percent equity interest in the venture that owns One Madison Ave. in New York City, giving it full ownership of the 1.2 million-square-foot office building.The New York...

A venture led by KBS Realty Advisors has sold 130 Prince St., an 86,000-square-foot mixed-use property in Manhattan's SoHo area, for $112 million.The fully-leased building was sold to an affiliate of Waterman Interests of New York.KBS and partner...

DLJ Real Estate Partners has paid $150.5 million for a portfolio of six hotels with 1,157 rooms from Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc.The six hotels were categorized as non-core by Sunstone, a San Clemente, Calif., REIT. Two of the...

Ventas Inc. has sold 21 skilled-nursing facilities and a long-term acute care hospital to Kindred Healthcare Inc. for $171.5 million.Kindred, a Louisville, Ky., operator of nursing centers, hospitals and institutional pharmacies, had been leasing the properties from Ventas,...