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- BUSINESS, Page 45Business NotesREAL ESTATEThis Meal Has Nine Courses
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- To the incurable golfer, the club names are almost mythic:
- Palm Beach, La Quinta, Mission Hills. But the owner of those
- exotic courses, California's Landmark Land Co., has been stuck
- for months in that great sand trap of the American economy, the
- savings and loan crisis. Landmark owns the resorts through a
- New Orleans subsidiary, Oak Tree Savings Bank, which is under
- pressure from federal regulators to raise some cash and shore
- up its finances. As a result, Landmark agreed last week to sell
- nine golf clubs and resorts for an estimated $739 million to
- an investor group led by Tokyo's Daiichi Real Estate.
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- While Japanese investment in foreign properties has slowed
- dramatically, the country's affinity remains high for golf
- courses and other resorts. "They think we're the best in the
- world in golf communities," says Landmark's chairman, Gerald
- Barton, who will run the properties.
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