Developers Diversified, Goldman Sachs Put CMBS Deals Back in Action
The first new-issue commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) supported by brick-and-mortar properties...
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Office Delinquencies Latest Driver of CMBS Troubles
Job losses and subsequent office loan defaults, coupled with continued hotel underperformance, resulted...
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Starwood Property Trust Begins Investing $900 Million Slowly, Selectively
In its first quarterly report as public entity, Starwood Property Trust posted a net loss of $1.9 million...
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Bank Watch: U.S. Steps Up Efforts To Seize Iran-Controlled Bank Melli's U.S. Properties
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is looking to take over control of the...
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Real Money (Nov. 19): Capital Raisings, Property Financings
Toys "R" Us Inc. priced $725 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2017 to...
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Retail REIT Execs Encouraged By 3Q Leasing Activity
While still cautious and subdued, the commentary shared by retail REIT executives during the past few...
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Market Rally Feeds Optimism at Annual REIT Confab
Participants in last week's annual NAREIT convention in Phoenix described the mood in terms ranging from...
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Lease Up/Lease Down (Nov. 15-21): Bioscience, Cleantech Sectors Spur Job Growth
News of corporate expansions, relocations, extensions, closures, layoffs, lease cancellations and...
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UPDATED: Simon Hires Advisers to Consider General Growth Acquisition Possibilities
The country's largest retail REIT, Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG), is considering a bid for its bankrupt...
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USDA Takes 330,000 SF in SW Washington, DC
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will occupy 330,000 square feet at Patriots Plaza III, a new office...
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Chinese Solar Power Giant Building First U.S. Plant
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., said last week that it is planning its first manufacturing plant in...
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Comcast Leases 106,300 SF in Jacksonville
Comcast of Greater Florida/Georgia Inc. signed a 106,253-square-foot office lease that will move its...
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Medical Research Center to Ignite Virginia with 415 Jobs
Biomedical research is heating up in Fairfax County, VA, as The Ignite Institute begins scouting locations...
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In The Pipeline: CoStar Development and Construction News for Nov. 15-21
In this week's issue, TMG Partners and The Related Cos. have been tapped as master developers for...
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TMG Partners, Related Cos. To Master Develop $1 Bil. NASA Research Park
A university consortium has selected TMG Partners and the Related Cos. as master developers for a $1...
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CoStar's Retail News Roundup: Nov. 15-21, 2009
This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Apple and Urban Outfitters...
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UPDATE: Chapter 7 Liquidation Follows InkStop's Abrupt Close of All 152 Stores
In Chapter 7, InkStop Retail Chain to Liquidate , published 11/15/09
Warrensville Heights, OH-based...
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William Blair Extends 324,700-SF Lease Through 2017
In one of the largest office leases in Chicago this year, William Blair & Co., an investment firm, inked...
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$84M Gets Volkswagen the Potamkin General Motors Building in Manhattan
The Volkswagen Group of America has closed on its acquisition of the Potamkin General Motors building...
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Employment Demand Outlook: Need To Survive the Next Three Months
If landlords across the country can make it through the coming layoff season, (November - January), they...
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CIT Group's Care Investment Trust Considering Sale or Merger
Care Investment Trust Inc., a New York-based health care REIT managed by CIT Healthcare, a subsidiary...
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Worst May Be Over for Hotels
While occupancy levels and average daily rates (ADR) in the last quarter of 2009 are expected to remain...
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Bank Watch: Small Business Banks Floundering
It's a tough time being a small business lender these days. This week, Advanta Corp. joined CIT Group...
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Real Money (Nov. 12, 2009): Capital Raisings, Property Financings
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. closed the extension and modification of its $560 million credit facility...
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USGBC: 7.9 Million Jobs Tied to Green Construction Over Next Four Years
As the green building movement convenes this week at the annual Greenbuild International Conference...
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Institutional Investors Throwing Big Money Around Class A Quality Retail Property
After what's seemed like an eternity of little or no action in the retail property investment arena,...
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Huawei Moves to Legacy Place II, Promises 600 Jobs
Huawei Technologies has signed a 103,331-square-foot lease at Legacy Place II in Plano, TX. The building...
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Lease Up/Lease Down (Nov. 8-14): Layoffs: A Sprint to the Bottom Line
News of corporate expansions, relocations, extensions, closures, layoffs, lease cancellations and...
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Tenants Take Upper Hand in Office Leasing as Rents, Occupancies Slip
So this is what the "new normal" looks like in U.S. office leasing markets. Building revenues flat line...
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L-3 Communications Entering The GATE
L-3 Communications’ Command & Control Systems and Software (C2S2) is coming to The Government and Technology...
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Grubb & Ellis Names D'Arcy New President and CEO
Santa Ana, CA-based Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) has named real estate veteran Thomas P. D'Arcy...
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In The Pipeline: CoStar Development and Construction News for Nov. 8-14
In this week's issue, German pharma giant Merck has topped off its $65 million research facility...
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CoStar's Retail News Roundup: Nov. 8 - 14, 2009
This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Sports Fan Attic and...
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