NetLease Q&A: Corporate Partners Capital Groups Sands Sees Healthy One-Off Deals, Approaching Market Equilibrium
9/5/2008

Net-lease sales may be down from those easy-credit days before the summer of 2007, but Howard Sands, founding principle of Los Angeles-based Corporate Partners Capital Group Inc., thinks that the lower deal volume still includes a good many relatively healthy net-lease transactions. As both sellers’ and buyers’ expectations come closer together, the market is approaching a new equilibrium, he says.
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Single Tenant Retail Sales Buck Market Trend
9/4/2008

Sales of C-Store/Gas, Restaurant/Fast-Food, Auto Repair/Parts, Drug Store, and Bank Branch Real Estate Continue to Trade at a Strong Pace
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Rattled
9/4/2008

Lending market is shaken, not broken
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Life Time Fitness Completes $100M Sale-Leaseback
9/4/2008

On Aug. 25, Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) announced its acquisition of four health and wellness centers, totaling 458,146 square feet, operated by Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: LTM) for $100 million, or approximately $218.27 per square foot.
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Longs to give shareholders closer look at CVS deal
9/3/2008

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Longs Drug Stores Corp. has agreed to hand over more information to pension funds suing the drug-store chain over its proposed $2.9 billion sale to CVS Caremark Corp., a lawyer involved in the case said Tuesday.
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Steve & Barrys case shines spotlight on TI
9/2/2008

The messy bankruptcy of Steve & Barry’s won’t deter landlords from continuing to sweeten leases with tenant improvement (TI) dollars, observers say. In fact, TI payments are going to become more prevalent, not less, especially with current market realities being what they are, says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a New York Citybased retail consulting and investment banking firm.
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Real estate manager believes markets are starting to stabilize.
9/2/2008

Steven Buller likes to compare the property sector to a three-legged stool comprised of fundamentals, valuations and technical indicators. From that optic, and 18 months into a slump that has hurt real estate stocks globally, he believes that market conditions are starting to stabilize.
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Recycling big-box store sites
9/1/2008

As Wal-Marts close, cities can fill voids
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CVS Vs. Walgreen
9/1/2008

CVS Caremark and Walgreen were the latest companies Cramer put through the rigor of his 10-point rating scale.
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Hedge Funds Help Fill Gap In Lending for Property
9/1/2008

Three months ago, Eric Gray saw an opportunity to scoop up a vacant retail property in New York Citys borough of Brooklyn. But he had a problem, one that has been plaguing many real-estate investors and owners: The nations banks, burned by years of easy credit and the resulting devastating losses, are no longer eager to lend.
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