May 24, 2005 | Vol. 3 No. 10

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Volume 3 - Number 10 | May 24, 2005

TOP STORY: Low Cap Rate Effect Uncertain; 'Almost Irrelevant' To Some, While Driving Others to B Product
By Sule Aygoren Carranza and Stacey Corso
At last week's second annual RealShare Multifamily Investment and Finance conference last week, discussion of the industry's low cap rates dominated much of the discussion. For some players, cap rates aren't determining business so much as other factors to a deal, but for others, cap rates are driving them away from luxury properties in hot markets toward class B product in secondary and tertiary markets.

INSIDER: Golden Boy Partners' John S. Long
By Sule Aygoren Carranza
What happens when you put together a former boxing superstar with the head of an experienced real estate development group? Good question. If they both grew up in inner-city Los Angeles, you get a partnership that is committed to enriching urban Latino neighborhoods through significant investments and development.

Condo Market Raises Questions Among Experts
By Sule Aygoren Carranza
The raging-hot condominium market was an equally heated topic at the second annual RealShare Multifamily Investment and Finance conference here last week. Yet the talk resulted in unanswered—or unanswerable—question marks.

DealWatch: HFF Sells MetLife Portfolio, Somerset Partners' Holdings Near 3,000 Units
By Sule Aygoren Carranza
Fresh off its sale of two trophy office properties in New York City, MetLife Real Estate Investments has sold, to separate buyers, a 1,760-unit portfolio of properties in Alabama, Texas, North Carolina and Ohio. Notably, four separate Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP offices worked together to pull off the deal.

Solomon Heads To Upstate NY Properties
By Stacey Corso

JER Sheds Major Interest in Seniors Housing Properties to NHP
By Stacey Corso

Corporate Housing Company Introduces New Concept
By Sule Aygoren Carranza

REIT Watch: GMH's Military Housing Could Suffer, But Student Housing Flourishes
By Stacey Corso

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