U.S. Home Builder Sells Kaufman & Broad Stake MOVERS MARKETPLACE By Bloomberg
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By Peter Woodifield  and Simon Packard  KB Home, a U.S. home builder that has had two years of falling profit, agreed to sell its stake in its French affiliate, Kaufman & Broad, to PAI Partners for 601 million.
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Retailer Kmart Holdings Corp. (KMRT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it finalized a deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home Depot Inc.
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Shares of home builders soared on  Monday as a frenzy of short sellers bought stock to cover their  positions, giving the overall housing stock index its greatest  one-day gain in about five years.
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Billionaire financier Carl Icahn charged ahead on Monday with an offer for New York office landlord Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  for $49 per share after his two partners withdrew from the bidding.
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Home Depot agreed to sell its construction supply division to three private-equity firms for $10.3 billion, unloading one of the last legacies of its former chief executive, Robert Nardelli.
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Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  shareholders approved a $4 billion takeover by SL Green Realty Corp. , but billionaire and rival bidder Carl Icahn hinted he would not abandon his fight for certain Reckson office buildings.
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The Blackstone Group plans to sell 10 buildings in downtown San Francisco to Morgan Stanley for $2.65 billion.
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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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Investment banks Morgan Stanley   and Lehman Brothers  are among the bidders for a stake  in Japanese house builder Daito Trust Construction Co (1878.T),  which may lead to a multibillion-dollar buyout, sources  familiar with the deal said on Thursday.
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Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  has asked potential suitor, a partnership of Carl Icahn and Macklowe Associates, to pick up the pace in making a definitive bid for the New York office building owner.
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Home Depot Inc  said it completed the  sale of its wholesale supply business, HD Supply, to buyout  firms on the same terms announced earlier this week.
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The home improvement giant said it's considering selling its wholesale supply business.
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The homebuilder beats expectations; shares bounce back.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  on Tuesday said it agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  for $22.2 billion, reflecting a strong, lingering appetite for real estate by private investors.
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US retailer Home Depot reached a tentative new agreement Sunday to sell its wholesale unit to a consortium of private equity firms for a reduced price of 8.5 billion dollars, The New York Times reported on its website.
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Blackstone Group LP, the private equity firm that bought Equity Office Properties Trust in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, has sold 53 buildings in Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Seattle for $7.55 billion, said three people with direct knowledge of the transactions.
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Shorenstein Co. LLC of San Francisco and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio this week completed the sale of Bay Colony Corporate Center office park in Waltham to Beacon Capital Partners LLC for $272.5 million. Cushman &amp; Wakefield of Massachusetts represented the sellers in the sale of the 987,923-square-foot, four-building complex on Route 128 overlooking the Cambridge Reservoir. The ...