Denise Kalette

Three lenders have helped Ventas (NYSE: VTR), the health care real estate investment trust (REIT) assume $837 million in existing mortgage debt to support its acquisition of Atria Senior Living Group.

Two prominent towers in the nation’s Heartland, both built in the 1980s, are demonstrating that office buildings need not be new to be energy efficient, stellar performers.

It has been a long journey from the garage of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, to the gleaming, 1.9 million sq. ft. campus the book behemoth occupies

Savanna Investment Management LLC, a New York-based institutional real estate private equity and asset management firm, has taken New York by storm in recent months, snapping up such familiar properties as 386 Park Avenue South, a 20-story, 260,000 sq. ft. office tower in Midtown South and 5 Hanover Square, a 25-story office building in the Financial District.

When a distressed portfolio of 13 former Mervyns stores came to market in California and Arizona recently, several of the nation’s biggest brokerages competed for the deal, valued at more than $100 million.

Some hotel borrowers are venting their frustration over special servicers’ unavailability for advice at the same time the hoteliers face the threat of default.