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October – Briefs/Finance
Avalon Closes $126.5M in Construction Financing; Time Equities Lands $398M to Start Manhattan High-Rise; ING Sells $1.6B of CRE Loans to Wells Fargo; MetLife Extends $235M in Financing for 974 KSF Houston Office Building; Behringer Harvard M-F REIT I to Become Self-Managed; LTC Properties Enters into $141M Mortgage Agreement; Northwestern Mutual Provides Gables Residential with $233M Refinance; Prometheus Gets $188M Mortgage for M-F Project in Silicon Valley.
October – Briefs/Sales & Development
Hyatt Buys Peabody Orlando for $717M; Forest City Sells Pittsburgh Complex for $135M; Tempe Set to See New Mixed-Use Development; Wood Partners Begins Two Maryland Projects; NYRR Buys SL Green Office for $220M; Behringer Harvard, TCR Break Ground in Central Dallas; W.P. Carey Closes $100M Sale-Leaseback in Austin; Harbor Group Sells Chicago Office Tower to Beacon for $113M.
October – Briefs/Leasing & Management
CBRE Tapped to Manage London’s Gherkin; JLL to Manage 640 KSF at Suburban DC Headquarters Campus; Pandora Signs with SL Green in Manhattan; Blue Buffalo Completes 391 KSF Lease Acquisition; Fairway to Anchor Food Market at Hudson Yards; H&M Takes 63 KSF in NYC; Vantage, CBRE Land Atlanta Retail Gig; Cushman & Wakefield Inks 250 KSF Lease in Illinois.
2013 Top Commercial Owners
Our observation is that successful owners are not just traders in and out of properties each time a cap rate adjustment occurs. Cycles come and go, but long-term ownership keeps you looking smarter year over year.
Podcast: Buy, Hold, Rebalance, Repeat
In this edition of our research podcast, Jack Kern and Mike Ratliff take a look at the changing nature of ownership structure and strategies.
September – Briefs/Sales & Development
CalPERS Fund Buys L.A.-Area Buildings from Hines for $550M; Kimco Completes Sale of Extended-Stay Business; Thayer Lodging Buys Ritz-Carlton San Francisco; Behringer Harvard, Wood Partners Kick off $191M Suburban Boston M-F Project; C&W Reps St. John’s in Lower Manhattan Sale; TCC, Clarion Break Ground on Industrial Project; Woods Acquires 1.4 MSF Tower in Dallas; Ares Originates $75M for Orange County Office Portfolio; Chevron to Build 1.7 MSF Houston High-Rise.
September – Briefs/Finance
Tishman Speyer Lands $372M for San Francisco Condo Construction; CBRE Arranges $110M for Clarion Partners; U.S. Bank Closes $61M for Carmel Partners Development; Hawaii M-F Asset Gets $59M in Financing; Meridian Capital Sources $155M for Manhattan M-F Acquisition; HFF Arranges $120M for Suburban Dallas Office Towers; iStar to Provide LATA with $146M.
September – Briefs/People
The Rockefeller Group Names Nakajima President & CEO; Bouri Joins UMS as Senior Partner, Managing Director; Integra Realty Resources Taps Albrecht as CEO; Thurber Named New ULI Chair; Pribnow Retires from NorthMarq; Wainwright Joins KBS Capital Advisors as SVP; Greystar Promotes Reid to Senior Managing Director; Wein Joins Walker & Dunlop as CPO.
2013 Leading Real Estate Law Firms
Our 2013 look at the leading real estate law practices found that firms are realigning practices to deal with current shifts in the real estate cycle.
September – Briefs/Leasing & Management
C&W Wins WTC Site-Wide Management Contract; Emeritus Senior Living Leases 38 Communities; COPT Leases 1 MSF in 2Q13; Hudson Pacific Signs 88 KSF in San Francisco; Skanska Signs for 44 KSF in Cambridge; Cassidy Turley Lands 2 MSF Management Gig; Finard Hires CBRE-Grossman for Mohegan Sun’s Mass. Leasing Assignment; Brookwood Signs 92 KSF in New Leases.