Yearly Archives: 2011

Los Angeles, CA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest real estate services organization globally, has negotiated a 10-year lease for a 15,444-square-foot office space located at 221 S. Figueroa St. in Downtown Los Angeles for The Associated Press. The transaction is valued at $5.5 million.

IRVINE, CA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Western States Technologies Inc. (www.westernstatestech.com) has signed a five-year lease valued at more than $1.5 million with Graphtec America Inc. for 44,000 square feet of space at 17462 Armstrong Ave. in Irvine, Calif., near John Wayne Airport. Graphtec America (www.graphtecamerica.com) will occupy 100 percent of the space.

McLean, VA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- I'm pleased to reach this agreement with Bank of America and believe it is in all parties' best interests. Since entering federal conservatorship, Freddie Mac has focused sharply on being a responsible steward of taxpayer funds, and we have worked closely with our lender partners to ensure that standards for loan underwriting are vigorously maintained. Bank of America has long been one of Freddie Mac's largest and most important business partners and we look forward to continuing our work together to provide mortgage funding for America's families.

McLean, VA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) announced today that it plans to issue a new three-year USD Reference Notes® security, CUSIP number 3137EACR8, due on February 25, 2014. The issue will be priced on Wednesday, January 5, 2011, and will settle on Thursday, January 6, 2011, at benchmark size.

NEW YORK, NY - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced that vacancy rates fell in all property classes in the Midtown and Midtown South office submarkets during 2010. At the same time, Lower Manhattan posted a slight increase in vacancy rates in all property classes

January 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ballen Group, A team of Las Vegas Short sale Specialists, uses a comprehensive Short Sale System for Nevada Short Sales leading to Bank of America Short Sale Approval waiving the deficiency for the seller.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Emerging Trends in Real Estate: The Americas® 2011, the oldest, most highly regarded annual industry outlook for the real estate and land use industry, will be released in Israel next month by the report’s co-publishers the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The findings, which suggest tempered improvement within the U.S. commercial real estate market in the months ahead, will be discussed during a special program January 12 at the Leonardo City Tower Hotel in Ramat Gan. “Emerging Trends Conference: U.S. Real Estate Investment in 2011” is being sponsored by ULI and PWC in partnership with Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy and Greenberg and Company and Goulston and Storrs