NEW YORK CITY-“Owning pad rental sites in manufactured housing communities is a very attractive, long-term business,” says David Hamomoto, whose company now has $1.6 billion of assets in the sector.

NEW YORK CITY-The largest private owner and operator of senior housing assets in North America, Holiday will continue to operate the properties under a 17-year master lease.

IRVING, TX-The third of three Blackstone hotel companies to plan an IPO in the past few months is keeping terms of the offering confidential in its SEC filing.

NEW YORK CITY-The company's primary business strategy has made it into the second largest non-bank contributor of loans to CMBS securitizations in the US over a five-year period, according to Ladder's SEC filing.

NEW YORK CITY-The deal for Lands End II marks Los Angeles-based CIM Group's third acquisition in Lower Manhattan this year, following a pair of office buys this past summer.

LOS ANGELES-Nine of the 13 largest office markets across the US showed lower vacancy in the fourth quarter, CBRE says, with the steepest decline seen in downtown Atlanta.

SUGAR LAND, TX-The plan to build a new Houston-area headquarters here “will help us bring together our people as one team,” says Nalco Champion president Steve Taylor.

REVERE, MA-The Connecticut-based gaming firm wants to build a $1-billion resort on 42 acres at the Suffolk Downs racetrack; Revere residents must approve the plan in a referendum vote.