31.   As a result, some real estate trusts are diverting cash that would normally be used to buy properties to buying back their stock.

32.   At the time, apartheid prohibited blacks from buying property in white areas.

33.   At the time, developers were thinking of buying the property to subdivide, Ms. Conway recalled.

34.   At the same time, REITs are reluctant to use their own stocks to buy properties because the stocks are depressed.

35.   At some point, a man named William Silvear bought the property.

36.   Baker and Hughey bought property together in South Carolina and planned on opening a casino, according to an area businessman.

37.   Atlantic Financial, which buys property and leases it to corporations, says it is buying downtown land for a corporate client who does not want to be identified.

38.   Bangkok Land Plc rose on a recommendation by a committee that the government buy a property in its biggest development.

39.   Because they are required to pay out most all of their income, REITs typically use cash from frequent stock sales to pay down debt and buy more properties.

40.   Boston College has already signaled its interest in buying that property.