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Posted on Monday, 27th June 2011 by Stella Ransom

Ray White Commercial Runaway Bay was featured in the following Gold Coast Real Estate News. The article highlighted a fantastic result in a challenging market.

MORE than $1 million worth of factory units at Biggera Waters has been sold in one week by Ray White Commercial Runaway Bay.

The four properties, part of a factory precinct on Brisbane Rd, were sold by Ray White Commercial Runaway Bay Commercial Manager Larry Dean for $1.035 million.

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Tags: Million, Million Dollars
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Posted on Monday, 27th June 2011 by Stella Ransom

Gladstone Commercial Corporation, a publicly-traded REIT based in McLean, VA, purchased a 78,421 square foot office building in Springfield, Missouri for $15.9 million this week. The property, built in 2006, was built-to-suit for T-Mobile, which has leased the property through 2021 with three options to renew for five year periods. Gladstone assumed an $11.6 million mortgage as part of the transaction. Stan Johnson Co. represented the buyer, an unnamed private investor, in the transaction.

“We are excited to add this property, and a strong tenant like T-Mobile, to our existing portfolio,” said Buzz Cooper, the Gladstone’s Managing Director responsible for the transaction.

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Tags: Building, Office Building
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Posted on Monday, 27th June 2011 by Blake James

In The Pipeline is a column on significant land sales, transactions and trends affecting office, industrial, flex, multifamily, mixed-use, hotel and public works developers. Send us news leads about your new project — to receive future In the Pipeline columns by e-mail.

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Former Trump Tower Tampa Site Sold to Partnership

A private partnership has acquired the former site of Trump Tower Tampa, a 52-story luxury condominium project that went bust during the recession. Full story…

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Posted on Sunday, 26th June 2011 by Stella Ransom

Baird & Warner Real Estate said Friday that it acquired F.C. Pilgrim & Co., a family owned real estate firm whose roots in the near western suburbs date to 1893.

Pilgrim, based in Oak Park, has 37 agents. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Renee Naffziger, managing broker of Baird & Warner’s Oak Park office, will head the combined operation. Michael O’Neill, managing broker of F.C. Pilgrim & Co., will take on the newly created role of Baird & Warner’s director of community initiatives.

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Posted on Sunday, 26th June 2011 by Charles Melvin

Sandra Hoffman, president of Hoffman’s Chocolate, has branched out acquiring Good Fortunes and Boca Bons companies. (Gary Coronado, Palm Beach Post) (Gary Coronado, Palm Beach Post / June 27, 2011)

GREENACRES Sandra Hoffman Meltzer, executive vice president of Hoffman’s Chocolate, has to shut the door to be able to conduct an interview; otherwise, her open-door policy will have someone walking in any minute.

Here in an unassuming office just off the showroom at the company headquarters, Meltzer helps run this family enterprise that features five retail locations and recently bought two other companies.

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Tags: Chocolate, Chocolate Company
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Posted on Saturday, 25th June 2011 by Blake James

Courtesy of Apple

Customer or client loyalty is one of the aspects of marketing luxury real estate that can be measured with reasonable accuracy. We recently heard a story about an agent who thought she had the loyalty of a particular client.  Then, after spending a considerable amount of time abroad, the client came back into town for the weekend, noticed that a home that he and his wife admired for years came on the market.  They bought it on the spot from the listing agent with whom they also listed their current home for sale.  The terms of this multi-million dollar purchase were all cash with a very short closing. An

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Tags: Apple, Luxury Real, Luxury Real Estate, Real Estate
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