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If Kids Can Play, Will Mom Shop?
Tue, 15 May 2012 22:26:48 EDT
In their bid to keep shoppers from deserting to the Internet, more malls are adding sprawling play spaces...[read more]
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Builder Is Constructing REIT for Home Rentals
Tue, 08 May 2012 19:31:54 EDT
Beazer Homes has formed a REIT with KKR that will buy and then rent single-family homes, one of the largest and most talked-about asset classes in the real-estate business...[read more]
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Pointed Spat Over World Trade Spire
Thu, 10 May 2012 14:52:42 EDT
One World Trade Center's owners are sparring with their architects over what goes on top'a dispute that could stop the structure being recognized as America's tallest...[read more]
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Tax Terms Amended in Empire State Building IPO
Wed, 09 May 2012 11:15:44 EDT
The Malkin family that controls the Empire State Building has agreed to change the terms of the skyscraper's public offering, making the tax treatment less punitive to small investors...[read more]
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Ohio REIT Heads Upscale
Tue, 08 May 2012 21:16:25 EDT
Associated Estates Realty Corp., which owns rental-apartment buildings in cities like Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, is pushing into the upscale Los Angeles market despite some investor concerns...[read more]
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Plots & Ploys: Looks Don't Matter
Wed, 09 May 2012 09:30:22 EDT
Strange looks of a building apparently aren't enough to scare off big-name investors. That's the case with 100 Federal Street in Boston'the so-called "pregnant building" recently purchased by Boston Properties...[read more]
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U.K. Pushes 'Social' Housing REIT Plan
Wed, 09 May 2012 06:11:49 EDT
Facing a dearth of new-home construction, the U.K. real-estate industry and government are looking at ways to encourage the formation of new real-estate investment trusts that would focus on subsidized housing...[read more]
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The New Nontraded REITs
Fri, 04 May 2012 22:12:07 EDT
A controversial real-estate investment is getting a makeover'and while the critics still aren't sold, some advisers say it is worth considering for investors comfortable with the risks...[read more]
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Paris Business Hub Goes on Defense
Wed, 02 May 2012 11:38:27 EDT
Paris's La Dfense district, launched more than 50 years ago and now the largest business center in continental Europe, is suffering growing pains that raise questions about how and where Paris will expand in the future...[read more]
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Deal Is Near to Develop Willets Point
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:58:24 EDT
The Bloomberg administration is nearing a deal with the Related Cos. and a real-estate firm controlled by owners of the New York Mets to build a retail and residential development on a gritty swath of Queens near Citi Field...[read more]
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Chicago's Spire Remains Hole in the Ground
Tue, 01 May 2012 22:08:39 EDT
The rubble-strewn Chicago lot where North America's tallest residential building was to have been built is turning into an international money pit...[read more]
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High Demand for High-End Real Estate in Paris
Tue, 01 May 2012 20:10:26 EDT
Storied French mutual insurer Groupama has put some prime Paris commercial real estate on the block. Fortunately for the firm, demand for top properties has stayed strong even as the crisis has raged on the Continent...[read more]
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Paris Luxury Retail Finds New Homes
Wed, 02 May 2012 00:35:11 EDT
With a new brand of wealthy clientele'and a shortage of space'Paris's luxury-brand owners are setting up shop in fresh parts of the city...[read more]
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A Hotel for California
Tue, 01 May 2012 22:10:43 EDT
Developer Rick Caruso, Southern California's king of upscale shopping centers, wants to make a splash in another real-estate sector by building a luxury hotel on 16 acres of beachfront in Santa Barbara...[read more]
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Mall Owners Wage Taxing Fight
Tue, 01 May 2012 19:17:02 EDT
Shopping-center landlords like Simon Property Group are pressing for states to levy sales taxes on online retailers like Amazon.com, in a bid to level the playing field...[read more]
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Creditors Take Control of Atlantis Resort
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:32:10 EDT
Resort operator Kerzner International transferred its massive Atlantis resort in the Bahamas to its creditors and sold its half interest in the Atlantis in Dubai to partner Istithmar World...[read more]
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Recent Arrivals Dull Montauk's Gritty Edge
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:02:42 EDT
Some locals see the changes in the hamlet as a sign that Hamptons posh has completed its eastward march to Montauk...[read more]
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REITs Spring an Unnerving Surprise
Mon, 07 May 2012 12:33:34 EDT
Investors are discovering the downsides of some nontraded REITs: They are being valued at prices far lower than investors had expected...[read more]
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Starwood's Crystal Vision
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:46:09 EDT
The company wants to capitalize on Baccarat's swank image with a New York hotel that will have 115 rooms and 64 high-end residences...[read more]
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Turkey Looks Overseas For Real-Estate Buyers
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:45 EDT
Turkey is close to amending legislation that would allow certain foreign buyers to purchase property. Industry observers hope this will spark demand...[read more]
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KKR Makes Push Into Real Estate
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:49:33 EDT
KKR has long resisted getting into real estate. But after years of watching rivals invest billions of dollars in property, the private-equity firm finally is making its own big push...[read more]
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CBRE Profit Declines 22%
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:20:46 EDT
A 14% increase in revenue couldn't offset the charges incurred from the firm's acquisition of the real-estate businesses of ING Groep...[read more]
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Eurohypo Unloads U.S. Loan Portfolio
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:18:57 EDT
Wells Fargo and Blackstone Group have agreed to pay an amount that is between 5% and 10% off the face value of about $560 million...[read more]
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The Best Spots to Set Up Shop
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:46:30 EDT
Inside two boutiques' race for a desirable store site in Beverly Hills...[read more]
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Cantor Construction Job
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:41 EDT
Howard Lutnick, the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, is aiming to integrate Grubb & Ellis with Newmark to form what he hopes will be one of the leading commercial real-estate-services companies in the world...[read more]
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Goldman in Talks On Hotel's Debt
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:15:45 EDT
Goldman Sachs, which purchased the massive Marriott Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu in 2005, is in talks to extend or modify the hotel's debt, which is probably more than the property is worth...[read more]
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Starwood Capital to Buy Malls
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:39:34 EDT
Investor Barry Sternlicht's Starwood Capital has agreed to buy a 90% stake in seven U.S. malls, including the SouthPark mall in Cleveland, from Australian mall owner Westfield Group for $1.05 billion...[read more]
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J.P Morgan Strips Shopping-Mall Loan From CMBS Issue
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:07:45 EDT
A $49 million loan on a Florida shopping mall that was facing a foreclosure action before it was refinanced has been stripped from an issue of commercial mortgage-backed securities that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is bringing to market this week...[read more]
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AIG to Return to U.S. Property Investing
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:52:10 EDT
American International Group is planning to jump back into U.S. property investing, reversing yearslong efforts to downsize its real-estate business in the wake of its near-collapse and government bailout in 2008...[read more]
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Europe's Gentler Deals
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:24:27 EDT
The commercial mortgage-backed securities market in the U.S. has increasingly resembled a battlefield. In Europe, by comparison, some efforts to fix distressed commercial mortgage securities look refreshingly civilized...[read more]
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Industrial-Space Showdown
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:00:04 EDT
Two real estate powerhouses are angling for control of a massive industrial portfolio hoping to capitalize on an expected economic recovery...[read more]
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Property Investors Lie in Wait in China
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:45:11 EDT
Cash-strapped, debt-burdened Chinese property companies may face a reckoning this year as the housing market slows'and if they do, outside investors are ready to step in...[read more]
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Brookfield to Spin Off Holdings
Tue, 15 May 2012 19:22:57 EDT
Brookfield Asset Management plans to bundle together its wide array of commercial-property holdings into a new publicly traded subsidiary, with an eye toward further growth...[read more]
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