Looking back 2007: Blackstone-EOP properties sell big
The largest leveraged buyout to date, Blackstone Group's $39 billion takeover of Equity Office Properties Trust, resulted in record sales of prime East Bay office buildings in 2007.
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Tier escapes housing-sale bust
“We’re not doing as much of it as in prior years because it is getting tougher to find lenders making loans to borrowers who are considered to have subprime credit”
The sky is not falling in the Southern Tier as we are led to believe with the continued cries of a mortgage lending crisis in the United States, Robert M. Fisher said on his bank’s Web site. via PressConnects.com
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Westshore district hub of new hotel construction
TAMPA — More hotels are coming to the Westshore District. Everything from five-star luxury to select service offerings will join an already crowded hotel landscape.
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Looking back 2007: Shorenstein, MetLife pair for new 23-story Oakland office tower
Shorenstein Properties LLC and MetLife Real Estate Investments joined forces in 2007 to develop the first new addition to Oakland's City Center since 2002.
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Developing a strategy that sells
Editor's note: What goes into selling a house? Reporter James Fink spent several weeks tracking one house and 'for sale' process it went through.
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Wild, Wild West: SF Bay Area’s Deep Freeze
Lower prices in the San Francisco Bay Area may be having a warming effect on the sales freeze that’s hit the area this year.
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Congress leaves for holidays without finishing housing work
WASHINGTON — Congress left Washington, D.C., for the holidays without finishing work on legislation that could help the country snap out of its housing funk.
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2007 real estate forecaster report card
Experts didn’t see turmoil in credit markets coming
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Rochford Realty to develop $37M apartment complex in Mt. Juliet
A local developer is closing a deal to build a $37 million luxury apartment complex and a $30 million senior community in Mt. Juliet at Providence.
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High Point $70 million development in the works
High Point could be looking at a 64-acre mixed-use development in the next three years if all goes according to plans.
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