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Jones Lang LaSalle Scores Contract as U.K. Corporation's Exclusive Global RE Advisor

Jones Lang LaSalle’s corporate solutions group has been named the exclusive real estate services advisor for U.K.-based Logica’s worldwide property portfolio.

Kennedy Wilson Buys Anaheim Office Building for $56M

The company bought the 273,000-square-foot asset in Anaheim, Calif. for $56 million–a significant discount to the $71.1 million price the property fetched in 2005.

Brookfield Asset Managment Buys Suburban Dallas Campus from Citigroup

Citigroup, which occupies two of three buildings in the 620,000-square-foot campus in Irving, Texas, will remain under a sale-leaseback deal.

Oracle Signs 200,000-SF Lease at Under-Construction Office Park in Romanian Capital

Technology giant Oracle Corp. recently committed to a 215,000-square foot, 10-year lease in a currently under-construction office complex in Bucharest, Romania.

BOMA Special Report: The GSA’s Focus on Sustainability

The General Services Administration likes to push the envelope on sustainability, Stephen Monkewicz, senior realty specialist with its office of real estate acquisitions, noted in his presentation at BOMA International’s Every Building conference in Seattle.

Hines Strikes Deal to Sell Houston’s 1.8 MSF Shell Plaza

Enterprise Products Co. is expected to close on the two-building trophy complex in Houston’s central business district later this summer.

Golden State’s Optimism Yields Development Plans: Allen Matkins/UCLA Report

Optimism about the CRE sector in California has been strong enough, for long enough, that new development is expected to pick up this year, especially in the industrial sector. The outlook is also brightening for office and multi-family, the latter of which was included in the semiannual report for the first time.

Update: CBRE Global Investors Plans Upgrade of Newly Purchased 400 S. Hope

Trophy office assets in downtown Los Angeles are not easy to come by, but CBRE Global Investors has just gotten its hands on a big one, the 701,500-square-foot tower at 400 S. Hope St. And it has big plans to improve the asset’s double-digit vacancy rate.

CBRE Global Investors Grabs 700 KSF Downtown L.A. Office Tower

Trophy office assets in downtown Los Angeles are not easy to come by, but CBRE Global Investors has just gotten its hands on a big one, the 701,500-square-foot tower at 400 S. Hope St.

Parkway Properties Takes Further Steps to Reposition Portfolio

Parkway Properties Inc., an Orlando-based REIT, has been repositioning its office properties portfolio. Most recently, it sold two Atlanta assets and a smaller building in New Orleans.