US property buy-outs
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Relatively well-off people in Manhattan or San Francisco or Seattle tend to pay their rents. Financial markets, especially the asset-backed ones that are so key to leveraged buy-outs, like this kind of stability. So it is fairly surprising that real estate investment trusts focusing on apartments have not been the subject of private equity interest - until now at least. On Tuesday, Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) offered an enterprise value of $22bn for Archstone (NYSE:ASN)-Smith, known for its high-quality portfolio in sought-after cities such as New York.
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A pullback in commercial property  lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in  real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for  private equity funds.
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Don't think you have to pay 6% on a real estate transaction -- it's negotiable!
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Big valuation, leaky moat, and a large shareholder fleeing. Any takers?
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Here's an uncomfortable housing scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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Why you need to consider non-U.S.-listed companies.
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Morgan Stanley&#39;s  real estate unit  agreed to buy Australia&#39;s Investa Properties Ltd.  for  A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation&#39;s  third-largest property trust takeover.
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US investment fund Steel Partners II on Thursday offered to buy 90 percent of Gencorp Inc. (GY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) it does not already own for about $700 million
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Blackstone Group of New York is planning to sell the Washington portfolio formerly owned by Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the nation's largest landlords, sources close to the deal said.
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Global credit squeeze undermining private sector sale of mortgage lender
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australiaâs biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expertâs report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders.
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Investors observing the seemingly uninterrupted parade of corporate buyout announcements might wonder how much the deals and the attendant rise in stock prices might boost returns in their mutual funds. The answer lies in the type of funds they own.
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For deals on real estate ETFs, go west. And south. And east.
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What will the buyout mean for the financial-services industry and its investors?
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THREE key Australian listed property trusts are preparing to slug it out for greater market share in the UK property market. Westfield Group, Multiplex Group and the soon-to-be-merged Lend Lease Corp Ltd and
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The value of mergers and acquisitions in Virginia, Maryland and the District hit record highs last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. But even more striking is the growth of private-equity involvement in these deals, which more than doubled in each of the three jurisdictions.
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A pullback in commercial property lending has raised questions about whether a recent surge in real estate investment trust buyouts signaled a peak for private equity funds.