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                                                                     EXHIBIT 5.2


                 [BALLARD SPAHR ANDREWS & INGERSOLL LETTERHEAD]



                                  June 23, 1998



AMB Property, L.P.
505 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California 94111

AMB Property Corporation
505 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California 94111


    Re:  AMB Property, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
         (the "Partnership") - Issuance of $400,000,000 Aggregate Principal
         Amount of the Partnership's Notes (the "Debt Securities") Pursuant to
         a Registration Statement on Form S-11 (Registration No. 333-
         49163), as  supplemented


Ladies and Gentlemen:

         In connection with the registration of the Debt Securities under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), pursuant to the Registration
Statement on Form S-11 (Registration No. 333-49163) filed by the Partnership and
AMB Property Corporation, a Maryland corporation and general partner of the
Partnership (the "Corporation"), with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") on April 2, 1998, together with Amendment No. 1 thereto filed
with the Commission on May 15, 1998, Amendment No. 2 thereto filed with the
Commission on June 8, 1998, and Amendment No. 3 thereto filed with the
Commission on June 15, 1998 (collectively, the "Registration Statement"), you
have requested an opinion with respect to the matters set forth below.

         We have acted as special Maryland corporate counsel to the Corporation
in connection with the matters described herein. In our capacity as special
Maryland corporate counsel to the Corporation, we have reviewed and are familiar
with the proceedings taken and proposed to be taken by the Corporation, in its
individual capacity and in its capacity


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as general partner of the Partnership, in connection with the authorization,
issuance and sale by the Partnership of the Debt Securities. For purposes of
this opinion we have assumed such proceedings will be timely completed in the
manner presently proposed. In addition, we have relied upon certificates and
advice from officers of the Corporation upon which we believe we are justified
in relying and on various certificates from, and documents recorded with, the
State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (the "Department"),
including the charter of the Corporation consisting of Articles of Incorporation
filed with the Department on November 24, 1997. We have also examined the bylaws
of the Corporation adopted as of November 24, 1997, Resolutions of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation adopted on or as of March 6, 1997 and June 19,
1998, in full force and effect as of the date hereof, and the form of Indenture
by and among the Partnership, the Corporation and the State Street Bank and
Trust Company of California, NA, as a trustee, in the form attached to the
Registration Statement (the "Indenture"), and such laws, records, documents,
certificates, opinions and instruments as we deem necessary to render this
opinion.

         We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the authenticity
of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to the
originals to all documents submitted to us as certified, photostatic or
conformed copies. In addition, we have assumed that each person executing any
instrument document or certificate referred to herein on behalf of any party is
duly authorized to do so.

         Based on the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions and
qualifications set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date of this
letter (i) the Corporation is duly organized and validly existing as a
corporation under the laws of the State of Maryland; (ii) the execution and
delivery of the Indenture by the Corporation on its own behalf and by the
Corporation in its capacity as general partner of the Partnership has been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Corporation; and
(iii) once the final terms and provisions of the Debt Securities have been
established by the Board of Directors of the Corporation or by a committee
thereof duly authorized to do so, the execution and delivery of the Debt
Securities by the Corporation, in its capacity as a general partner of the
Partnership, will be duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
part of the Corporation.

         We consent to your filing of this opinion as an Exhibit to the
Registration Statement, and further consent to the filing of this opinion as an
exhibit to any applications to


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securities commissioners for the various states of the United States for
registration of the Debt Securities. We also consent to the identification of
our firm as Maryland counsel to the Corporation in the section of the
prospectus, which comprises a portion of the Registration Statement, entitled
"Legal Matters."

         The opinions expressed herein are limited to the laws of the State of
Maryland and we express no opinion concerning any laws other than the laws of
the State of Maryland. Furthermore, the opinions presented in this letter are
limited to the matters specifically set forth herein and no other opinion shall
be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated.


                                   Very truly yours,


                                   /s/ Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll








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