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Volume 4 - Number 23 | December 5, 2006
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TOP STORY: Fitch Predicts More M&A, Real Estate Sales in Challenged Retail Sector
By Michelle Napoli
The retail team at Fitch Ratings Inc. predicts continued merger and acquisition, leveraged buyout and real estate sales and strategy activity in 2007, all in what it describes as a challenging operating environment for retailers. That could be good news for sale-leaseback and net lease investors, a number of whom have been the buy-side beneficiaries of corporate deal-driven real estate transactions.
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Insider: Calkain Cos.’ Joel Kahn
By Michelle Napoli
Calkain Site Services is a new due diligence and evaluation service offered by Reston, VA-based Calkain Cos. NET LEASE forum spoke with Joel Kahn, the Nashua, NH-based managing director of Calkain Institutional Advisors, who is heading up the new consulting effort.
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STAG Capital Readies for Third Fund
By Michelle Napoli
STAG Capital Partners is working on its third and largest net lease property investment fund, NET LEASE forum has learned. CEO Benjamin S. Butcher says he expects to have an initial closing in January on the newest fund, which ultimately will have about $400 million in equity.
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Industry Update: Shareholders Vote for LXP/Newkirk Merger
By Michelle Napoli
Shareholders of Lexington Corporate Properties Trust and Newkirk Realty Trust Inc. voted recently in favor of a pending merger. The transaction is expected to close on the last day of the year, LXP CEO T. Wilson Eglin says.
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