REITs
GGP Strikes $230M Deal Over Disputed Las Vegas Assets
The agreement disclosed on Monday closes the legal battle over the 22,500-acre master planned community about 12 miles from Downtown Las Vegas.
SL Green to Trade Midtown Manhattan Office Building for $123.2M
Continuing its portfolio repositioning strategy, New York City-based SL Green Realty Corp. has inked a deal to sell the 292,000-square-foot office building at 19 West 44th Street to Deka Immobilien.
Grubb & Ellis to Add $182M in Properties to Apartment REIT
Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT Inc. has entered into definitive agreements to acquire nine multi-family properties from affiliates of MR Holdings, L.L.C. and substantially all the assets of Mission Residential Management, L.L.C., the property management business of Mission Residential.
Boston Properties to Buy Macklowe’s Debt-Ridden 510 Madison Ave. in NYC for $280.5M
Lender issues, lawsuits, a vacant tenant roster and a fire. A boatload of problems have surrounded the brand-new office building at 510 Madison Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, but change is in the air now that Boston Properties has committed to acquiring the fee title to the 350,000-square-foot office building.
General Growth Says Blackstone Plans $500M Investment
General Growth filed for bankruptcy in April 2009. At the time, it listed assets of $29.6 billion and debts of $27.3 billion. Earlier this year a consortium of Blackstone, The Fairholme Fund and Pershing Square Capital Management said they would provide as much as $8.5 billion to finance the company’s bankruptcy emergence.
Multi-Family REITs Ride High: SNL Study
Multi-family-focused REITs have the edge over the rest of the REIT industry, reports SNL Real Estate.
Cedar Shopping Centers and RioCan Close $53M JV Purchase of Philly-Area Shopping Center
Located on a 37-acre site 40 miles outside of Philadelphia in the Greater Reading area, Exeter Commons sprouted up last year at the hands of the Goldenberg Group and Ironwood Property Group.
FIRPTA Reform Clears House
The United States House of Representatatives has voted by a landslide to pass legislation modifying and updating the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax of 1980. The bill cleared the House by a vote of 402 to 11.
Douglas Departs Brookfield for General Growth
Douglas succeeds interim CFO Ed Hoyt. General Growth is working to exit bankruptcy after having declared Chapter 11 last year.
Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Nails Down $25M BofA Credit Facility
The credit facility, which matures on July 19, 2012, may be extended at the option of Grubb & Ellis for an additional year upon certain conditions. It bears interest at a rate equal to LIBOR plus 3.75 percent or 5 percent, whichever is greater.