Lender issues, lawsuits, a vacant tenant roster and a fire. A boatload of problems have surrounded the brand-new office building at 510 Madison Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, but change is in the air now that Boston Properties has committed to acquiring the fee title to the 350,000-square-foot office building.

General Growth filed for bankruptcy in April 2009. At the time, it listed assets of $29.6 billion and debts of $27.3 billion. Earlier this year a consortium of Blackstone, The Fairholme Fund and Pershing Square Capital Management said they would provide as much as $8.5 billion to finance the company’s bankruptcy emergence.

Multi-family-focused REITs have the edge over the rest of the REIT industry, reports SNL Real Estate.

Located on a 37-acre site 40 miles outside of Philadelphia in the Greater Reading area, Exeter Commons sprouted up last year at the hands of the Goldenberg Group and Ironwood Property Group.

The United States House of Representatatives has voted by a landslide to pass legislation modifying and updating the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax of 1980. The bill cleared the House by a vote of 402 to 11.

Douglas succeeds interim CFO Ed Hoyt. General Growth is working to exit bankruptcy after having declared Chapter 11 last year.

The credit facility, which matures on July 19, 2012, may be extended at the option of Grubb & Ellis for an additional year upon certain conditions. It bears interest at a rate equal to LIBOR plus 3.75 percent or 5 percent, whichever is greater.

RioCan and Inland Western announced the formation of their institutional joint venture in May. The eight new format and grocery-anchored assets of which RioCan will now acquire 80 percent account for approximately 1.1 million square feet of retail space in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin markets.

The joint venture adds more than 11 million square feet to JLL’s retail portfolio of 84 million square feet in the Americas and 265 million square feet worldwide. Additionally, more than 200 GGP employees will now become JLL employees.

Currently the exclusivity period to file the plan and its accompanying disclosure statement is scheduled to expire on July 15.