Archive for January, 2010
Healthcare: Former Hospital and Office Buildings in Mesquite, Texas, up for Sealed Bid Auction from Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing

Healthcare: Former Hospital and Office Buildings in Mesquite, Texas, up for Sealed Bid Auction from Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Medical Office/Healthcare | No Comments

Mesquite, Texas (PRWEB) January 19, 2010 — A former Mesquite hospital and five medical office buildings located on 11 acres will be sold via sealed bid auction on Friday, February 5. The property will be available in three individual tracts or may be purchased in entirety. Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing is conducting the auction [...]

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BlackRock Acquires Helix Financial

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

BlackRock, the giant U.S. money manager, said Tuesday that it had acquired Helix Financial Group, a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that advises commercial real estate lenders. The addition of Helix will help flesh out BlackRock’s existing commercial real estate business, including BlackRock Financial and Financial Markets Advisory Group. “Since its founding [...]

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Data Center: Fidelity Plans Research Triangle Data Center

Data Center: Fidelity Plans Research Triangle Data Center

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Data Centers | No Comments

Fidelity Investments is scouting sites for a major data center in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, and is said to be in talks to finalize a deal to build in Garner, a suburb of Raleigh, according to local media. The company is likely to invest at least $60 million in the new 100,000 [...]

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Senior Housing: Capital Senior Living Enters into Sale Lease/ Back Transaction

Senior Housing: Capital Senior Living Enters into Sale Lease/ Back Transaction

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Senior Housing/Assisted Living | No Comments

Capital Senior Living Corp., an operator of senior living communities, announced that Midwest Portfolio Holdings, a joint venture in which it holds an 11 percent partnership interest, has entered into an agreement to sell five senior living communities to Health Care REIT, Inc.
Upon closing the transaction, the Company said that it will lease the communities [...]

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Student Housing: Education Realty Trust to develop housing near Johns Hopkins

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Student Housing | 1 Comment

The development subsidiary of Education Realty Trust Inc., Allen & O’Hara Development Co., has been selected to design, build and manage a graduate student housing complex near the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore.
The 20-story, high-rise apartment will house nursing and medical students, fellows attending Johns Hopkins and students at other nearby universities.
The complex will [...]

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Healthcare: Centura Health in Colorado to Start First Stage of $120M Hospital in Summer

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Centura Health is planning a $120 million hospital in Castle Rock, Colo., that will be built in stages, according to the Denver Business Journal.
The 12-hospital system, which is jointly operated by Catholic Health Initiatives and Adventist Health System, plans to begin construction this summer.
The first phase, worth $26.3 million, will include a 40,000-square-foot medical office [...]

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Student Housing: UNM Gets Go Ahead to Create New Student Housing

Student Housing: UNM Gets Go Ahead to Create New Student Housing

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Student Housing | No Comments

New housing to be located west of “The Pit”
On Tuesday, Jan. 12 the University of New Mexico Board of Regents unanimously approved the concept forwarded by American Campus Communities for development of an 864-bed student housing community on UNM’s south campus – currently the home of University Stadium and university’s renowned basketball arena, “The Pit.”
The [...]

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Senior Housing: Senior Housing Properties Trust Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.36 Per Share

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Senior Housing/Assisted Living | No Comments

NEWTON, Mass. — Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) today declared its regular quarterly common share dividend of $0.36 per common share ($1.44 per share per year). This regular quarterly dividend will be paid to common shareholders of record as of the close of share trading on January 19, 2010 and distributed on or about [...]

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Self Storage: U.S. REITs Poised to Boost Dividends After Raising $33 Billion

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Self Storage | No Comments

A dozen U.S. real estate investment trusts, part of an industry that raised $33 billion last year, likely will increase their next quarterly dividends.

Public Storage, Annaly Capital Management Inc., and Inland Real Estate Corp. are among those that may boost payouts, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Vornado Realty Trust said this week it would resume paying its dividend fully in cash after a year of issuing it partially in stock.

“I do see the strongest companies perhaps increasing their dividends,” said James Sullivan, an analyst with Green Street Advisors, a Newport Beach, California-based real estate research company.

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Student Housing: Judge says UB can’t sue to stop housing

Posted 01.19.2010 | Categories: Student Housing | No Comments

The University at Buffalo was unable to persuade a judge to prohibit privately owned student housing adjacent to the North Campus, but there is a chance the Amherst Town Board might block the housing plan after fighting for years to allow it.
State Supreme Court Justice Gerald J. Whalen ruled this week that the university did [...]

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