Jonathan A. Schein - President & CEO - Real Estate Media - GlobeSt.com

3/7/06:Blackstone's planned acquisition of REIT CarrAmerica, as reported early yesterday on GlobeSt.com, may be an omen of things to come. Blackstone has been insatiable in its appetite for quality real estate assets. However, this is the second REIT in the past few months to be acquired and taken private. There are two basic rationales that fuel this privatization trend. First, there's the ongoing abundance of private money and the dearth of places to park it. Second, there's the specter of Sarbanes-Oxley, which has made the public-equities market a costly nightmare of accountability—the muddled thinking of an overzealous legislature responding to the actions of a very small part of the business community. The result has been to transform what was once a terrific field in which to raise capital into an onerous business environment. Rest assured, as more corporations choose the private route, those same legislators will be hard at work crafting new ways to regulate them as well.

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	NAI HORIZON (PHOENIX) Cliff Denton becomes senior vice president, tasked with leading the office property group.
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