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Kite Realty to pay $307M for 9 retail properties

The Indianapolis-based real estate firm said the properties total 2 million square feet and are mostly located in Florida, Georgia and Texas. The acquisition would bump the size and value of Kite’s portfolio by about 20 percent.

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Simon’s 20-year run has made investors a bundle

Simon Property Group now is the largest real estate company in the world and has a stock market value of $59 billion. That’s $6 billion more than Eli Lilly and Co., not that Simon's hypercompetitive CEO, David Simon, has noticed.

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Mall owners go from first to last in REIT market

Shopping mall owners like Simon Property Group, the best-performing U.S. property stocks for four years, have tumbled to the worst as sluggish retail sales and limited opportunities to expand drive investors to look elsewhere for earnings growth.

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Simon to buy $569M stake in European mall operator

Simon will gain an ownership stake in six McArthurGlen properties in Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, and become a partner in the London-based firm’s real estate management and development business.

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