An affiliate of Madison Equities has lined up a $56.9 million construction loan to build Chelsea Modern, a 47-unit residential condominium project in New York.The New York firm received the financing from Corus Bank of Chicago. Terms were...

Apple Hospitality Five has tapped Wachovia Securities as financial adviser to explore strategic alternatives.Those alternatives could include a sale, merger or public listing of its shares.The Richmond, Va., REIT was formed in 2002 to acquire upscale, extended-stay and...

Washington REIT has agreed to buy three medical office properties totaling 273,400 square feet in deals totaling $72 million.The Rockville, Md., REIT is paying $49 million to Greenebaum & Rose Associates for Woodholme Medical Office Building and Woodholme...

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An affiliate of Madison Equities has lined up a $56.9 million construction loan to build Chelsea Modern, a 47-unit residential condominium project in New York.The New York firm received the financing from Corus Bank of Chicago. Terms were...

Lowe Enterprises and Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund have acquired the Hilton Washington hotel in the nation's capital for $290 million from Hilton Hotels Corp.The Lowe-Canyon Johnson venture plans to invest another $100 million in renovating the 1,119-room hotel on...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportThe CMBS market, after suffering nearly three straight months of spread widening, is starting to perk up substantially.Last Thursday, a $3.2 billion transaction, Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2007-2, saw its 30...

The operating partnership of Equity Residential Properties Trust has priced $1 billion of unsecured notes through underwriters led by bookrunners Banc of America Securities, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Securities.The Chicago apartment REIT structured the notes in two tranches:...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Report LaSalle Investment Management is said to have made an offer to buy Pennsylvania REIT, according to REIT Wrap, an industry publication.LaSalle owns 41,600 shares of 0.1 percent of the PREIT, which owns 56...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportInstitutional tax-exempt assets invested in real estate grew 25 percent last year to $342.68 billion. A report from Pensions & Investments noted a sense that foreign markets may attract an increasing share of...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMorgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, which last week agreed to buy Crescent Real Estate Equities, has offered to buy another property company.But this one, Investa Properties Ltd., is in Australia. Morgan has agreed...

John G. Carberry has joined Prudential Huntoon Paige as principal of originations and will open a lending office in Boston.Carberry is the former president of Charles River Mortgage Co., a Boston provider of multifamily loans under Federal Housing...

An investor group has paid $20 million for Consol Energy Inc.'s 186,000-square-foot headquarters building in the Pittsburgh suburb of South Hills, Pa.The Pittsburgh group, which operates as One 1800 Washington Road Associates, purchased the property from Corvus International...

Lowe Enterprises and Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund have acquired the Hilton Washington hotel in the nation's capital for $290 million from Hilton Hotels Corp.The Lowe-Canyon Johnson venture plans to invest another $100 million in renovating the 1,119-room hotel on...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportThe CMBS market, after suffering nearly three straight months of spread widening, is starting to perk up substantially.Last Thursday, a $3.2 billion transaction, Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust, 2007-2, saw its 30...

The operating partnership of Equity Residential Properties Trust has priced $1 billion of unsecured notes through underwriters led by bookrunners Banc of America Securities, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Securities.The Chicago apartment REIT structured the notes in two tranches:...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Report LaSalle Investment Management is said to have made an offer to buy Pennsylvania REIT, according to REIT Wrap, an industry publication.LaSalle owns 41,600 shares of 0.1 percent of the PREIT, which owns 56...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportInstitutional tax-exempt assets invested in real estate grew 25 percent last year to $342.68 billion. A report from Pensions & Investments noted a sense that foreign markets may attract an increasing share of...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMorgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, which last week agreed to buy Crescent Real Estate Equities, has offered to buy another property company.But this one, Investa Properties Ltd., is in Australia. Morgan has agreed...

John G. Carberry has joined Prudential Huntoon Paige as principal of originations and will open a lending office in Boston.Carberry is the former president of Charles River Mortgage Co., a Boston provider of multifamily loans under Federal Housing...

An investor group has paid $20 million for Consol Energy Inc.'s 186,000-square-foot headquarters building in the Pittsburgh suburb of South Hills, Pa.The Pittsburgh group, which operates as One 1800 Washington Road Associates, purchased the property from Corvus International...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Report JBG Cos. is marketing for sale a recently-built 311,000-square-foot office building at 1101 K St. NW in Washington. The property's listing agent, HFF Inc., is also marketing another large downtown Washington property for...

Angelo, Gordon & Co. has paid $58 million for three Sunny Delight Beverage Co. bottling plants. The investment manager's Net Lease Group, which raised a $160 million investment vehicle to target properties that would be net leased to...

Kimco Realty Corp. is offering for sale Lafayette Marketplace, a 214,876-square-foot retail property in Lafayette, Ind.The New Hyde Park, N.Y., REIT, has tapped the Chicago office of HFF Inc. to market the property. No asking price has been...

Carlton Group has opened up shop in Tel Aviv, giving the New York investment adviser further capabilities to tap investors in the Middle East, Europe, India and Asia. The company has hired Ido Kapner as managing director and...