IRVINE, CA-Land Interests Inc. has closed on 10California properties on behalf of Paladin Asset Preservation &Management Inc., the court appointed receiver. Land Interests isdisposing of the entire portfolio, formerly owned by John LaingHomes, consisting of 831 residential lots and 63 homes in thestates of California, Colorado, and Texas.

Tony Eaton, Mike Land and Guillermo Monge of LandInterests in Irvine, CA, represented Paladin Asset Preservationexclusively in the transactions. The 10 California propertiescollateralized a portion of a $200 million dollar credit facilitysyndicated under the lead of Wachovia Bank.

Land Interests’ asset management team, a separatedivision of Land Interests, headed by Greg Ocasek, conducted amanagement strategy and disposition analysis, which forecasted aconsiderable increase in the net recoverable value by selling theassets individually in lieu of selling the entire portfolio to asingle buyer, according to Eaton. A comparison between the actualnet recoverable values and forecast resulted in a variance of lessthan 3%.

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