A week after announcing they were exclusively courting BRE Properties Inc., rival multi-family REIT Essex Property Trust, Inc. said it had agreed to make the marriage official, with BRE Properties being merged with Essex in a cash and stock deal worth $4.

Lexington Realty Trust, of New York, has bought, for $52.6 million, a pack of 10 clinics operated by BluePearl Veterinary Partners, the nation’s leading 24-hour emergency pet care provider, Stan Johnson Co., Tulsa, Okla., which represented both parties in

Nearly three years after President Barack Obama launched the Better Buildings Challenge to help American commercial and industrial buildings become at least 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020, the administration has expanded the program to the multi

The Peebles Corp. and Elad Group have bought the historic 346 Broadway office building from New York City for $160 million and plan to transform the 115-year-old property into a five-star hotel and upscale condominiums in a $400 million restoration.