Subject: International (INTL)

January 8, 2003 Aareal Bank Group has launching a consulting company in Paris for real estate firms active in France.The company, called Mansart Conseil, will provide advisory services for property investment and portfolio management.The firm has already signed three unidentified ...

December 10, 2002 Industrial Global Solutions, a Mexican real estate advisory firm, has launched a fund that will invest in single-tenant industrial, manufacturing, distribution and office projects in Mexico.Mexico Real Estate Investments LP is the first private equity fund raised ...

November 7, 2002 Two floating-rate CMBS deals totaling 1.05 billion euros (US$1.06 billion) that were originated by German banks have been issued this week. The loans in Westfaelische Hypothekenban AG's GECO 2002 Ltd. are entirely backed by properties in Germany. ...

October 15, 2002 Ian Schrager Hotels has named Francesca Galante to the new position of vice president of European acquisitions and business development.Galante joins the company from European-based private equity fund Soros Real Estate Partners. Prior to that, she worked ...

CMBS is becoming more widely accepted throughout the world, given the $4.5 billion of deals that are in the works this month. That compares to last year's total issuance of $22.7 billion of foreign deals.

September 13, 2002 Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportNew CMBS issues from Europe, Australia and Japan are in the market this week.Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is out with EROS (European Loan Conduit No. 10) FCC, a 341.4 million euro (US$333 ...

September 6, 2002 TOKYO – ProLogis (NYSE:PLD) has named Masato Miki as first vice president.He will continue to develop the REIT's Japanese operations and be involved in the acquisition, development and financing of properties throughout the country.Miki previously held several ...

August 28, 2002 Two foreign CMBS deals have surfaced this week, one a conduit with collateral in Japan and the other in the United Kingdom.The Japanese transaction, Pine Besch Conduit One K.K. has a balance of 19.9 billion yen (US$167.8 ...

August 12, 2002 TOKYO – New issuance in Japan's relatively new structured finance market could reach 5 trillion Japanese yen (US$42 billion) in 2002, driven by expected strong growth in synthetic CDOs, along with RMBS. Growth in CMBS issuance, although ...

August 5, 2002MCLEAN, Va. – JER Partners has named Deborah Harmon chief investment officer, replacing Jonathan Kern, who left the company in July. A member of the executive team for the past 11 years, Harmon oversaw $7.4 billion of investments ...