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National Real Estate Investor November 5, 2002 Parke Chapman	Report: Manhattan office sales volume up 14% Manhattan's office sales market is booming despite a sluggish leasing climate that has kept vacancy high.
National Real Estate Investor October 30, 2002 Parke Chapman	Fifth Avenue office tower sells for $611 per sq. ft. Chicago-based Walton Street Capital bought the Midtown Manhattan office building.
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Parke Chapman	Midtown Manhattan: A Pillar of Strength The real estate market in Manhattan is finally emerging from a three-year slump. Office leasing is on the rise, hotel vacancy rates are tightening and luxury retailers are flocking to Fifth Avenue's midtown shopping corridor.
National Real Estate Investor December 5, 2003	11 Madison Avenue Sells for $675M An art deco office building in Manhattan's Midtown South district has traded for $675 million, or roughly $310 per sq. ft. InvestorTamir Sapir of ZAR Realty, who also owns 260 Madison, 261 Madison and 2 Broadway, purchased 11 Madison Avenue from Met Life.
National Real Estate Investor December 3, 2002 Parke Chapman	Boston Properties to sell Midtown building Global Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the 29-story, Class-A office building. The sale will allow the Boston-based REIT to pare down its debt.
National Real Estate Investor August 7, 2003 Parke Chapman	Manhattan Office Tower Sells For Nearly $300M Vornado Realty Trust has sold 2 Park Avenue, a 965,000 sq. ft. office building in midtown Manhattan, for $292 million. The buyer was German real estate investment firm SEB Immobilien-Investment GMBH.
National Real Estate Investor February 2, 2004	Tishman Speyer to Buy the 'Lipstick Building' Tishman Speyer Properties has contracted to buy 885 Third Avenue, the midtown office tower known as the "Lipstick Building." The building is being purchased through a partnership of Tishman and the New York City Employees Retirement System.
National Real Estate Investor January 12, 2004	Reckson Closes Purchase of 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York office REIT Reckson Associates has completed its acquisition of 1185 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The 1.1 million sq. ft., Class-A property was purchased for $321 million.
National Real Estate Investor October 16, 2002 Parke Chapman	MetLife markets $2 billion office portfolio Insurer Metropolitan Life is selling nearly $2 billion worth of its nationwide real estate holdings, including Midtown Manhattan's 551 Fifth Avenue and two major Chicago office buildings. Of the 15 properties offered, all except one are office buildings.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2005	$730.2 Million in Lending Facilitated in Manhattan by Singer & Bassuk The top 8 Manhattan deals facilitated by the mortgage broker since December: $178.9 million for 325 Fifth Avenue... $120 million for 88 Leonard Street... $116 million for 95-97 Horatio... etc.
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2006	Deals & Projects Younan Properties has acquired Norfolk Tower, a 206,680 sq. ft. Class-A highrise... The joint venture between Colliers ABR and AEW Capital Management has purchased the 22-story office tower at 119 West 40th Street... etc.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Sibley Fleming	Tearing Up Peachtree Tearing up Peachtree Street, which runs through downtown Atlanta and the office markets of Midtown and Buckhead, is another way of saying there's a lot of construction going on.
National Real Estate Investor May 2, 2003 Parke Chapman	Wells Continues Acquisition Spree Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has been busy this week. The unlisted office and industrial REIT spent over $245 million to buy two office buildings, including a 410,000 sq. ft. New Jersey office building and a 929,694 sq. ft. Minneapolis property.
National Real Estate Investor January 19, 2004 Parke Chapman	PricewaterhouseCoopers Subleases 800,000 Sq. Ft. in Manhattan's 300 Madison PricewaterhouseCoopers has signed a long-term sublease for 800,000 sq. ft. at Brookfield Properties' 300 Madison Avenue building. The $800 million deal is believed to be one of Manhattan's largest leasing transactions since 2001.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Crossing the Hudson The office market in Midtown Manhattan is blazing hot, with asking rents at prime buildings topping $100 per sq. ft. That has sent some tenants heading for Northern New Jersey where it is possible to find rents in Class-A buildings for less than $35 per sq. ft.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Bennett Voyles	A Sky-High Tax Increase Still reeling from the recession and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the New York real estate industry now faces one more blow: an 18.5% increase in the city's real property tax.
National Real Estate Investor April 2, 2003 Parke Chapman	Lower Manhattan vacancies declined in March For the first time in months, downtown New York City posted positive absorption of office space. A report from Cushman & Wakefield shows that downtown office vacancy fell from 13.7% at the end of February to 13.3% at the end of last month.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Chapman & Valley	Rational Exuberance? Late last year, as conditions in the office sector declined and price tags for buildings continued to rise, industry pundits warned of a possible investment bubble. Still, it looks like the bubble remains more of a threat than a present danger.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2003	American Financial Buys $769 Million Office Portfolio Fresh after its IPO last week, American Financial Realty Trust has purchased 158 properties from Bank of America Corp. for nearly $800 million. The 8.1 million sq. ft. portfolio consists of office buildings, banking and operations centers scattered throughout 19 states.
National Real Estate Investor September 23, 2003 Parke Chapman	Office REIT Stung By Competitive Manhattan Market A decision last week by law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to lease 450,000 sq. ft. at One World Financial Center was terrific news for lower Manhattan and WFC landlord Brookfield Properties, but quite the opposite for Boston Properties.
National Real Estate Investor September 26, 2003	Macklowe Buys GM Building For a Record $1.4 Billion New York City developer Harry Macklowe now owns the General Motors Building after paying Conseco Inc. a record $1.4 billion for the 50-story midtown Manhattan office tower. Macklowe was one of nearly two dozen bidders.
National Real Estate Investor April 16, 2003 Parke Chapman	New leases chip away at lower Manhattan's vacancies More than 600,000 sq. ft. of office space in lower Manhattan was leased this week, pushing the downtown market's vacancy rate below 13% for the first time in a year. Two large leasing deals were responsible for the positive trend.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2008	Deals & Projects First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. has acquired Union Commerce Center... Hidrock Realty and Assurant Inc. have purchased a 12-story commercial building at 35 West 36th Street... Fairfield Residential has acquired Glen Park...
National Real Estate Investor January 6, 2004	SL Green Promotes Marc Holliday to CEO Office REIT SL Green Realty, which owns more than 15 million sq. ft. of office space in Midtown Manhattan, has promoted its president to the role of CEO.
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 Alan L. Pontius	Prescription for Success Amid the historic growth of office investment sales over the last few years, the medical office sector has shifted from a tertiary investment option to an annual $2.5 billion market.
National Real Estate Investor January 5, 2004 Parke Chapman	Law Firm Relocates from Midtown to Downtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan law firm Morgan & Finnegan has signed a 100,000 sq. ft. lease at 3 World Financial Center. The lease gives the firm two full floors within 3 WFC, which is located directly across from Ground Zero.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Parke Chapman	Office Glut at Ground Zero The jury decision on insurance liability for the World Trade Center could clear the way for five new office towers to be developed around Ground Zero in a larger plan that could cost as much as $9 billion.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2002 Margy Sweeney	Chicago's `Long, Flat Bottom' Downtown Chicago continues to bustle with construction activity. This is a good sign and also a scary one.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Parke Chapman	The Changing Brokerage Paradigm These are edgy times for commercial real estate brokerages. Office leasing volume is flat-lining, top brokers are switching firms and mergers are creating a new breed of mega-brokerages.
National Real Estate Investor November 25, 2002 Parke Chapman	Wells buys $345 million D.C. office complex Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a pair of Class-A, office buildings in the heart of Washington, D.C.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2005 Stan Luxenburg	Why Office REITs Are Building Again After several years of hard economic times, some REITs are accelerating development activities in strong markets. Increased hiring by corporate tenants is encouraging new building.
National Real Estate Investor February 25, 2003 Parke Chapman	Chicago landmark trades for nearly $500M After sitting on the market for four months, the Blackstone Group has sold the Aon Center in Chicago for roughly $475 million, or $190 per sq. ft. Atlanta-based Wells Real Estate, an active buyer in 2002, has agreed to purchase the tower, the third largest building in the U.S.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Tony Wilbert	More Office Glut in Midtown Atlanta? Midtown's office market is the second worst in metro Atlanta. More than 25% of Midtown's 13 million sq. ft. of office space is empty, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2011 Michele Lerner	Office Investment Magnet Experts believe Washington, D.C.'s real estate fundamentals are in place to keep the local office market healthy for the remainder of 2011.
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2006 Parke M. Chapman	Ground Zero Office Glut in the Making? If Ground Zero's newest tower is any indication, filling space in the Freedom Tower and adjacent buildings will be a challenge.
National Real Estate Investor December 23, 2002	Wells buys office tower for $157 million Capping off a year-long acquisition spree, Atlanta-based Wells Real Estate Investment Trust has closed on a $157 million Class-A office tower in Glendale, Calif. The 545,000 sq. ft. Nestle Building was bought from Douglas Emmett Realty Advisors, an opportunity fund manager.
National Real Estate Investor November 18, 2003 Parke Chapman	Georgia Tech Completes 1.5 Million Sq. Ft. Technology Square Project The Georgia Institute of Technology has completed its 1.5 million sq. ft. Technology Square development, a mixed-use, urban redevelopment project in Atlanta's Midtown business district.
National Real Estate Investor December 16, 2002 Parke Chapman	Mack-Cali scoops up Philly office property Mack-Cali Realty Corp. (NYSE: CLI) has purchased a 175,000 sq. ft. Class-A office building in suburban Philadelphia for $26.3 million. The 4-story property, known as the Triad Building, is 90% leased to eight tenants, among them pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and MDS Pharma Services.
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2007	Deals & Projects Hines REIT acquires a Long Island office complex...Somerset Partners LLC agrees to buy 450 Park Avenue, a 33-story office building, for $510 million...
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Hortense Leon	Miami Makeover Attracts Investors Miami's newly minted reputation for integrity and efficiency in city government sparks an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion of new construction, ranging from condos to an office tower, in and near the city's downtown area.
National Real Estate Investor January 14, 2003	Triple Net Properties acquires Congress Center Triple Net Properties LLC, on behalf of NNN Congress Center LLC, has purchased the 524,784 sq. ft. Congress Center for $136.1 million. The office building, located in Chicago's West Loop submarket, will serve as Triple Net's fifth regional office.
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Loading Up on Warehouses At a time when businesses are straining to meet global competition, companies are demanding more state-of-the art warehouses. That is pushing up prices. In some markets, land is at a premium.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Jessica Miller	Office Properties: The Worst Could Be Ahead After hotels, the office sector is the biggest victim of the soft economy. And unlike the retail, industrial and multifamily sectors, experts predict that office fundamentals will continue to crumble before improvement begins some time in 2004.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Joe Gose	The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Matt Gove	Wells Makes Its Move Wells Real Estate Funds has spent most of its 18-year history flying under the radar --- buying nondescript, single-tenant suburban office buildings. Now, the Atlanta-based privately held company is making its move with acquisitions totaling more than $1.2 billion for 2002.
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006	Deals & Projects The Koll Co. and Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho will acquire a portfolio of 12 office properties... CalTIA, a joint venture between national financial services organization TIAA-CREF and RREEF, has sold a 9.6 million sq. ft. national industrial portfolio... etc.
National Real Estate Investor July 9, 2003 Parke Chapman	C&W: Manhattan Office Vacancy Ebbed In June Cushman & Wakefield reports on current conditions and outlook for the year in the Manhattan office market.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Boston Properties' Big Deal Office REIT Boston Properties' sale of 280 Park Place puts the company in an interesting position. Investors, it's hard not to like Boston Properties for the long term, even if today's price isn't so thrilling.
National Real Estate Investor January 28, 2003	Downtown Baltimore office tower sells for $50M A 380,000 sq. ft. office building in downtown Baltimore has sold for $50 million. Norfolk-Va. Based Harbor Group International (HGI) and a corporate investor bought the property, known as the First Union Tower, as part of a tax-deferred exchange.