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JUNE 2010 ISSUE

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Sobrato Tests the Sales Market

August 31, 2010 | The Sobrato Organization, one of the largest workplace and apartment landlords in the South Bay, is preparing the sale of a 12-building Silicon Valley portfolio measuring nearly 900,000 square feet.

The offering is being precipitated by the company’s ongoing efforts to diversify its asset base away from its historic concentration in offices and research and development buildings into rental housing and equities, said company Director Mike Field.

August 26, 2010 | Global competition and rapid industry change are driving the sale of San Francisco health care and education architects Anshen + Allen to Canada-based Stantec Inc., spokespeople for the companies said Aug. 26.

August 24, 2010 | US Bank may achieve close to its target price for Emeryville’s Watergate office complex, but the property’s sale is being complicated by millions of dollars in deferred maintenance, the size of the asset itself, high vacancy and constrained debt markets.

August 24, 2010 | Crescent Heights, the developer behind San Francisco’s Metropolitan condominiums, has acquired a fully entitled development site in the city for $12.5 million.

August 23, 2010 | Even after reducing the taxable value of hundreds of thousands of buildings and homes statewide, property assessors across California including in the Bay Area are drowning beneath an onslaught of appeals from commercial property landlords and home owners.

August 23, 2010 | Over the next two years, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency plans to release six construction contracts valued at more than $700 million in association with the Central Subway, a 1.7-mile downtown extension of the city’s light-rail system.

August 18, 2010 | The sales process for the huge Watergate Office Towers complex in Emeryville, which fell into loan default last year, has begun.

August 18, 2010 | JP Morgan Asset Management has made a $78.6 million equity investment in the 192-unit Strata apartments in the Mission Bay District of downtown San Francisco.

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PCCP, Ohio PERS Launch Mortgage Venture

August 18, 2010 | The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has selected PCCP, a real estate finance and investment management company with offices in San Francisco, to help manage the pension system’s initial foray into the senior commercial mortgage business.

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