Zillow secures &#36;30M in financing
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Real estate information startup Zillow Inc. said late Wednesday it closed a $30 million round of financing. Legg Mason Capital Management, a Baltimore-based global asset management group known for its mutual funds, led the round. In all, the operators of Zillow.com have raised $87 million since 2005.
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Simon Property Group Inc.  and hedge fund Farallon Capital Management made a $1.56 billion offer for mall owner Mills Corp. , which last month agreed to be bought by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Average 30-year rates jumped 10 basis points to 6.73% from a week ago, reversing three weeks of mild declines, Freddie Mac said. That&#39;s near the year-ago rate of 6.74%. Average 15-year rates rose to 6.39% vs. 6.3%, while one-year ARMs rose to 6.45% from 6.29%. Higher rates may keep housing weak through the second half.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by &#36;3.06 billion in the latest week to &#36;829.08 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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United Dominion Realty Trust Inc. , one of the largest U.S. apartment owners, said on Tuesday it plans to buy &#36;897 million worth of apartment homes, moving from lower-rent housing to more expensive properties based mainly in fast-growing Southern California.
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General Electric Co. completed the sale of a majority stake in its global outsourcing business to two U.S.-based equity firms for &#36;500 million, the conglomerate said Friday.
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Automattic, the commercial arm of the WordPress blog platform, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including The New York Times Company.
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A cadre of buyout shops are expected to try to raise a total of &#36;45 billion for new European funds in the next year and a half.
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NEW YORK -- Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, the investment firm run by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader Daniel Och, filed to raise $2 billion in the largest initial public offering by a US hedge-fund firm.
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Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a hedge-fund company run by former Goldman Sachs Group equities trader Daniel Och, filed to raise $2 billion in an initial public offering.
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PARAMUS, N.J. -- A group led by Vornado Realty Trust boosted its offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $23.24 billion, or $56 per share, in cash and stock on Thursday, topping a private equity firm's buyout bid.
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Countrywide Financial Corp said on Thursday it has lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that will lead to widespread layoffs.
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THE REGION Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman of Boston Properties Inc., sold about $75 million of shares in the real estate investment trust, benefiting from a soaring market for commercial office properties. Zuckerman, who also is owner of the New York Daily News, sold 579,222 common shares according to data from Securities and Exchange Commission filings compiled by the Washington Service. Boston ...
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Brookfield Properties Corp., which owns 48 commercial sites including the World Financial Center in New York, bought a 19-story office tower in Rosslyn, Virginia, from Deutsche Immobilien Fonds AG for $106 million.
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Brookfield Properties Corp.   on Monday forecast 2007 funds from operations above analysts' expectations and said it plans to sell 30 million shares.
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Fannie Mae, the biggest buyer of US mortgages, will correct its accounting and boost capital to a level 30 percent above the required minimum after its federal regulator found errors
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British advertising company WPP  said on Sunday it won an auction for U.S. rival Grey Global, with what sources familiar with the matter said was a cash-and-stock deal worth about &#36;1.34 billion.