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		<title><![CDATA[Some Californian dreaming for Macquarie Office.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200702/ai_n19249074]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Florence Chong    Feb 21, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Macquarie Office  Trust is interested in capitalising on the break-up of the Equity Office  Properties Trust EOPT. EOPT was purchased by Blackstone for $US39  billion in early February 2007. Blackstone has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity Office assets on sale.(Briefs)(acquisitions of Blackstone Group L.P. and Equity Office Properties Trust)(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York's Blackstone Group, which recently closed on the  $39-billion acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust, hired real  estate firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler to sell off local assets of Equity  Office, a 23-building portfolio that could be worth more than $2  billion. The real estate investment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity Office Properties Trust Closes Mergers with Affiliates of The Blackstone Group and Related Transactions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP) announced today that it has completed the previously announced mergers of Equity Office and EOP Operating Limited Partnership, its operating partnership, with affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group. As announced earlier this week, the Equity Office...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackstone wins takeover bid for US office giant]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AFP &#8212; Investment fund Blackstone Group succeeded in a 39-billion-dollar bid to take over the largest US office management firm, in the most costly US private equity transaction ever.  Shareholders of Equity Office Properties Trust EOPT voted overwhelmingly to back the Blackstone offer, EOPT said in a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackstone raises offer for US office giant]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US investment fund Blackstone Group has again raised its takeover offer for Equity Office Properties Trust EOPT, America's largest office firm, to 39 billion dollars, EOPT said.  If successful, Blackstone's offer for Chicago-based EOPT would mark the most costly US private equity transaction ever. Blackstone was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EOP Operating Limited Partnership Announces Extension of Its Cash Tender Offers and Related Consent Solicitations for $8.4 Billion of its Outstanding Debt Securities]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE:EOP) announced today that its subsidiary, EOP Operating Limited Partnership, has extended its cash tender offers and related consent solicitations in respect of an aggregate of approximately $8.4 billion of its outstanding unsecured debt securities, which we refer to as the "Notes." The tender...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity Office Properties Trust Amends Merger Agreement with Blackstone.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-26 January 2007-Making The Watchlist: Equity Office  Properties Trust Amends Merger Agreement with BlackstoneC1994-2007 M2  COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:26012007    Equity Office (NYSE:EOP) operating through its various subsidiaries  and affiliates, is the largest publicly traded owner and manager of  office properties...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackstone raises offer for US office group to 38 bln&ndash;dlrs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US investment fund Blackstone Group has raised the stakes in its bid to takeover Equity Office Properties Trust EOPT, America's largest office firm, to 38.3 billion dollars, EOPT said.  Blackstone's offer for Chicago-based EOPT would mark the most costly US private equity transaction ever if it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bluhm's bid: scramble to top $36 bil. Big obstacles to late run at Zell's Equity Office.(Neil Bluhm, Sam Zell)(buyout agreement between Equity Office Properties Trust and Blackstone Group.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5253/is_200701/ai_n20200128]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: THOMAS A. CORFMAN    Neil Bluhm's possible run at Sam Zell's Equity Office  Properties Trust would bring together two billionaire Chicago real  estate financiers who have rarely tangled on a deal.    Nonetheless, "they know each other very well,'' says  Chicago real...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bidding war for Equity Office?    CHICAGO - Shares in Equity Office Properties Trust rose 51 cents,  or 1 percent, to $49.26 amid indications of a possible bidding war for  the office real estate investment trust, which already has agreed to a  $19 billion buyout....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ad Hoc Committee of EOP Maintains Opposition to Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2007-Early Watch: Ad Hoc Committee of EOP  Maintains Opposition to Tender Offer and Consent  SolicitationC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:11012007    Equity Office Properties Trust, (NYSE:EOP) a real estate investment  trust REIT, engages in the ownership, management, development, and ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's Left; After selling off his office empire, Sam Zell turns toward foreign markets, vulture plays.(Equity Office Properties Trust sold to Blackstone Group )(Brief article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: ALBY GALLUN    Sam Zell may have just orchestrated the biggest real estate deal in  U.S. history, but his next blockbuster deal is more likely to involve  river barges or Mexican housing developments than office buildings.    The billionaire investor relinquished his title...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Takeover fever grips markets around the world]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boom in global merger and acquisition activity reached new proportions as Blackstone Group, the private equity house, launched the biggest-ever public-to-private deal, worth $36bn ([pound]19bn).    Its acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust EOPT, America's largest owner of office space, was just the largest of a slew...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blackstone buys Equity Office for $36 billion]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity Office Properties Trust, headquartered in Chicago, signed a definitive agreement Monday to be bought out by Blackstone Real Estate Partners of Chicago in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion.   Equity Office Properties Trust is the largest private owner of office properties in the United States. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Current Research on Equity Office Properties Trust.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-20 November 2006-Blue Chip News: Current Research on  Equity Office Properties TrustC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:20112006    Current Research on Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP)    Equity Office adds headstones to the Grave Dancer's fold.  Headed by Sam "Grave...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Institute of Real Estate Management panel to forecast 2007 real]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Real Estate Management will hold its 19th annual forecast breakfast from 7 to 9:30 a.m. Dec. 7 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, 1401 S.W. Naito Parkway.   Experts will speak on the 2007 forecast for finance, retail, industrial, multifamily and office space.   The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EXTRA TOUCH PAYS OFF.(Equity Office Properties Trust)(Brief article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5254/is_200610/ai_n20253327]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For 717 Fifth Ave., Equity Office Properties Trust wanted abstract  contemporary art, since the glass tower was built in the late 1950s for  Corning Glass Co. First, Novo Arts executives presented several designs  created on a computer, and then Equity officials approved a final  design. Equity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity Office Declares Fourth Quarter Series B Preferred Dividend]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE:EOP) today announced that its Board of Trustees declared the fourth quarter dividend for EOP's Series B preferred shares of beneficial interest.  The 5.25% Series B Convertible Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of beneficial interest dividend of $0.65625 per share will be paid on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Macquarie Office Trust has ...]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sep 10, 2006 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Ross  Satterwhite has been appointed as head of North America at Macquarie  Office Trust.  In the past, Satterwhite worked as senior vice-president  of investments at Equity Office Properties Trust and Iron Bridge  Capital.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity Office Properties Trust to sell $3B of assets through '07]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day after selling a Portland mid-rise for $48 million, Equity Office Properties Trust on Thursday said it would sell $3 billion to $3.5 billion of its national portfolio through 2007.   Equity Office on Wednesday sold One Pacific Square, a 13-story property in Portland's Old Town/Chinatown, to Ashforth-Pacific...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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