Company's large market valuation makes finding potential suitors difficult

Sale result of previous enterprise owners re-evaluating real estate portfolio

Anonymous sources say the Japanese company will receive about $8 billion for the shares.

Giant seeking faster-growing businesses to offset decline in older product sales and cloud competition

Non-traded REIT may split data center assets from hospitals in two separate transactions, worth $3.5B total

Gets out of capital-intensive real estate business to focus on technology

It’s acquired DataBank and C7, and it may be close to buying Vantage, but it’s not stopping there

Adds fourth expansion location in Europe this month

With deals by three of the six public data center REITs, strategic acquisitions are back in vogue

Rewritten tax provisions could return profits stored overseas, fueling deal size, frequency