Subject: REITS -general (REITS)

August 4, 2000 CarrAmerica Realty Corp. (NYSE:CRE) and Security Capital U.S. Realty (NYSE:RTY), a majority shareholder, have worked out an agreement that will keep SC-U.S. Realty from taking control of the REIT.SC-U.S. Realty, which currently owns 42.7 percent of the ...

August 3, 2000 JDN Realty Corp. (NYSE:JDN) will conduct its annual shareholders' meeting in Atlanta on Aug. 29Part of the agenda for the meeting at the JW Marriott Hotel will be the nomination of two directors, according to a proxy ...

August 1, 2000 David Dunn has taken a 5.1 percent interest in LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE:LTC).According to a Form SC 13G, the Dunn Family Trust now controls 1.3 million shares of the REIT.

Banyan Strategic Realty, a small-cap REIT, has decided that a sale of its entire portfolio will provide shareholders a greater return than its shares are currently generating. It has hired Cohen Financial of Chicago to find buyers.

July 27, 2000 BETHESDA, Md. – GE Capital Real Estate has provided $74.5 million in fixed-rate loans to LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE:LHO).The three individual 10-year secured loans bear a fixed interest rate of 8.08 percent. The hotel REIT used the ...

July 26, 2000 GERMANTOWN, Tenn. – Hotel real estate investment trust Equity Inns Inc. (NYSE: ENN) has signed a binding memorandum of understanding to acquire all 75 of the company's leases from Interstate Hotels Corp. on Jan. 1, 2001, in ...

July 25, 2000 LOS ANGELES – Kilroy Realty Corp. (NYSE:KRC) has sold five Silicon Valley industrial buildings to a private investment group for about $62 million.The properties are located in San Jose and total 430,000 square feet of space.Kilroy acquired ...

July 19, 2000(NewsTraders.com) – CIBC World Markets began covering 16 REITs today, expressing bullishness regarding the REIT industry and projecting 15 percent to 20 percent in total returns over the next 12 to 18 months."From a fundamental standpoint, real estate ...

The REIT, which late last year set a goal of selling $500 million of properties in order to plow proceeds into stock repurchases, has just $140 million of properties left to sell. Its aim is to unload properties it considers ...

July 18, 2000 NEW YORK – Standard & Poor's has lowered its corporate credit rating on Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) to triple-B from triple-B-plus and also lowered its rating on the company's preferred stock to triple-B-minus from triple-B. ...