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In Progress: SkyCity Orlando
Jul 1, 2007
DEVELOPER: Sky Development LOCATION: Orlando, Fla. SIZE: Sky Tower I, a 25-story, Class-A office tower; Sky Tower II, a 35-story, 350 room hotel with...
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NAMES IN THE NEWS
Jul 1, 2007
Peter Dunn has joined Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. as senior director of the firm's Houston office. Dunn will oversee debt and equity transactions for the company's Houston office....
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China Tightens Rules
Jul 1, 2007
China is taking new steps to curb foreign investment in commercial and residential real estate and to quell fears that offshore investors are driving up prices to unacceptable levels. Announced June 11, the new rules extend licensing and equity-participation requirements for property purchases to cover investments in Chinese holding companies as well....
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DEALS & PROJECTS
Jul 1, 2007
Harbor Group International LLC based in Norfolk, Va., has acquired the BB&T Tower, an 18-story office building in downtown Jacksonville, Fla., from an...
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11 TIMES SQUARE PROJECT BEATS THE CLOCK IN EARLY GOING
Jul 1, 2007
SJP Properties has broken ground two months ahead of schedule on a speculative 40-story office tower in Times Square. The 11 Times Square project is being built on one of the few viable development sites in midtown Manhattan....
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Pension Funds Travel
Jun 1, 2007
A growing number of U.S. pension funds are tapping real estate opportunities abroad. According to the Pension Real Estate Association 2007 survey, 45 of the largest 1,000 U.S. pension plans will send capital abroad in 2007....
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Up From The Ashes
Jun 1, 2007
Lower Manhattan's commercial real estate market is thriving nearly six years after the 9/11 attacks. What's fueling this rebound are a growing number of businesses and residents who see the allure of an area that's undergoing a $20 billion upgrade....
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JAPANESE HOTEL PORTFOLIO FETCHES RECORD PRICE
May 1, 2007
In the largest Asian hotel portfolio sale on record, Morgan Stanley in March agreed to pay $2.4 billion for 13 luxury hotels in Japan. The seller was All Nippon Airways Co., Japan's second largest airline, which is shedding non-strategic assets...
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Big Easy Heads for Higher Ground
May 1, 2007
Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans, the city is reinventing itself geographically and literally scrambling northward onto higher ground....
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Price Appreciation Clouds CMBS Risks
May 1, 2007
Aggressive underwriting will lead to increased defaults in the latest crop of loans earmarked for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), warns Fitch Ratings....
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SPORTS-ANCHORED DEVELOPMENT COMES TO LOUISVILLE
Apr 1, 2007
Cobalt Ventures LLC plans to build the first sports-anchored development in downtown Louisville, Ky. Known as The Iron Quarter, the $50 million complex of retail, office and dining will be built adjacent to the site selected for the city's 22,000-seat sports arena....
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Urban Hot Spot Alters Columbus
Jan 1, 2007
On a cool October evening, a couple sporting Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys stroll across Front Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, as their hockey team prepares to play in Nationwide Arena....
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Sizing Up Commercial Appraisals
Jan 1, 2007
It's difficult to overestimate the importance of accurate appraisals in the commercial real estate industry....
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Private Buyers on Gobbling Binge
Jan 1, 2007
Mega deal typically is one of those overly dramatic phrases that the ego-driven, bigger-is-better commercial real estate industry loves to bandy about when it comes time for the annual ritual of retrospection....
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Investors Shy Away from Budapest
Dec 1, 2006
Angry at the prime minister following revelations that he had lied about the shaky state of Hungary's finances, 10,000 citizens took to the streets in September in protests...
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Enticing Fairways
Dec 1, 2006
The game of golf, which hasn't been kind to public REIT investors in recent years, is attracting the interest of private-equity investors. ...
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Walking the Line
Dec 1, 2006
As 2006 draws to a close, the U.S. economy and the Federal Reserve are in the midst of a difficult high-wire act with little margin for error. ...
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Is Mills Corp. Grinding to a Halt?
Nov 1, 2006
The retirement of Larry Siegel as CEO of Mills Corp. helps pave the way for a sale of the company, but terms of his departure may exasperate investors...
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Cowtown Comeback
Oct 31, 2006
Thanks to its booming oil and gas and defense industries, Fort Worth’s office market is becoming seriously hot property. Want proof? Look no further than CB Richard Ellis, which recently became the first national brokerage firm to open an office in downtown Fort Worth dedicated to the self-proclaimed “Cowtown” market....
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Green Grumblings
Apr 1, 2006
A new green building proposal in Washington, D.C., has many developers on edge. While green ordinances are nothing new, D.C.'s Bill 16-515, if enacted,...
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Big Supply, Tight Spreads
Apr 1, 2006
A wave of commercial mortgage-backed securities hit the market in early March, following a dearth of issuance in January and February. Despite the volume,...
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Global Money Thinks Local
Apr 1, 2006
The conventional wisdom about real estate is that it is a local business. Rents and market conditions vary from city to city (and between submarkets within...
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