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NEW YORK CITY-Publicly traded finance company iStar Financial Inc. will sell $250 million of fixed-rate notes and $225 million of floating-rate notes in an underwritten public offering. The REIT expects to use proceeds from the sale to repay outstanding balances on its unsecured revolving credit facility.

"Our job is not about taking complex deals and making them more complex, " said iStar's chairman and chief executive officer Jay Sugarman during a recent presentation. "It is about looking at complex real estate, corporate credit, and capital market transactions and really distilling them down to the essence of the deal and providing a solution where the customer thinks, 'Yes, that makes sense.'"

All of the notes are senior, unsecured debt securities of the company. Up for sale are $250 million of fixed rate 5.80% senior notes due 2011 at 99.9% of their principal amount to yield 5.824% per annum and $225 million of senior floating-rate Notes due 2009.