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Real Estate/Development

Apr. 18, 2006

Profits Trump Legal Fears in REITs Going Private

BY KEELEY WEBSTER CREJ Staff Writer When Washington, D.C.-based CarrAmerica Realty Corp. announced early in March that it was being acquired for $5.6 billion and taken private by The Blackstone Group , a private equity firm, it became the seventh real estate investment trust this year to announce it was going private.

        BY KEELEY WEBSTER
        CREJ Staff Writer
        
        When Washington, D.C.-based CarrAmerica Realty Corp. announced early in March that it was being acquired for $5.6 billion and taken private by The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, it became the seventh real est...

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