NEW YORK CITY-The New York real estate legend and long-time Real Estate Board of New York executive gave Vornado its firepower when he sold his company--Mendik & Co.--to the REIT in the late 1990s.

NEW YORK CITY-Jonathan Rudes, president of Delphi Real Estate Advisors LLC and co-chair of the Real Estate Technology Forum, tells GlobeSt.com brokers here are reluctant to jump aboard initiatives that require sharing information.

COLUMBIA, MD-The local REIT that focuses on suburban office properties has declared five different dividends to be paid to shareholders. All will be paid to shareholders of record as of June 29,2001.

ORLANDO-Robert W. Miller, senior vice president, CB Richard Ellis Inc., Orlando, says deals are being done faster using the Internet but they are not closing in cyberspace. Michael Heidrich, a vice president at Realvest Partners Inc., flatly rules out Web deals.