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Reston, VA - March 1, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Calkain Companies is a leader in advising its corporate clients in single tenant net lease and portfolio sale-leaseback transactions. Calkain's team has closed nearly $1 billion in sale-leaseback transactions. The sale-leaseback transaction allows a company to sell corporately owned real estate and simultaneously lease it back under a long-term lease with the buyer of the real estate.

Reston, VA - February 1, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Calkain Companies’, a national real estate investment brokerage firm, recently completed a complex 1031 transaction involving two (2) zero-cash-flow properties (“zero(s)”) occupied by CVS (NYSE: CVS.) The purchaser was a large family LLC motivated by the foreclosure of an office building they had previously owned.

Reston, VA - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Michael Zimmerman, Vice President of Calkain Realty Advisors, is the newest addition to Calkain Companies’ growing team of experienced net lease investment advisors. Zimmerman is a veteran net lease practitioner has successfully procured in excess of $325 million in transactions throughout Florida and the southeastern United States, resulting in numerous awards and recognition from within the net lease industry. Having successfully advised and represented merchant developers and private equity investors, Michael is seen as an authority on the asset class in which he specializes

WASHINGTON, WA - July 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Alexander Otis Matthews, a Virginia real estate businessman pleaded guilty today to fraud charges in connection with mortgage and investment schemes to obtain more than $12 million in fraudulent loans.

NORFOLK, VA - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kathleen Harps, 51, of Chesapeake, Va., was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation today after a federal grand jury indicted her on June 21, 2011 on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and three counts of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions.

November 15, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement. Robertson faces a maximum penalty of 30 years on the conspiracy and mail and wire fraud counts, 10 years on the counts charging engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity and 10 years on the false statement count.

Boston, Sept. 7, 2007 -- GID Investment Advisers LLC (“GID”) announced today that it has acquired the 244-unit Io Piazza, a luxury high-rise apartment...

Lerner Enterprises, Washington D.C.’s largest private real estate developer, announces the start of construction for The Falls at Flint Hill, a 246-unit luxury apartment...

Cohen Financial, a national real estate capital services firm, announced (June 20, 2007) that Howard Taft, Managing Director and Charles Penan, Senior Analyst, in...

The B. F. Saul Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) has taken out a $105 million 14-year, fixed rate construction and permanent mortgage on its...