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Cole REIT Selects Its Own Deal Over Rival's

A charged takeover battle for Cole Credit Property Trust III, a private real-estate company with $8 billion in assets, ended last week when Cole rejected a rival's bid to buy the company. But real-estate analysts say the public markets ultimately will determine who was right in June, when Cole plans to list shares as a publicly traded company.

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