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Europe’s Property Sales Rise

Jul 21st, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

The volume of investment is just a fraction of what was seen before the financial crisis amid uncertainty about the global economy.



CMBS Market Rises From Ashes

Jul 21st, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

The commercial-mortgage-backed-securities market, a leading source of financing in commercial property until the financial collapse of 2008, is showing signs of life.



China Land Price Growth Slows

Jul 21st, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

Land prices in China continued to rise in the second quarter from the preceding quarter, albeit at a slower pace, highlighting the challenges that Beijing faces in its efforts to lower persistently high property prices.



Europe’s Commercial-Property Sales Rise, as Values Slow

Jul 20th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

The volume of investment is just a fraction of what was seen before the financial crisis amid uncertainty about the global economy.



Morgan Stanley Ponders Its Property

Jul 20th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

After building one of the biggest, most prestigious real-estate-investing businesses on Wall Street, Morgan Stanley is weighing plans to scale it back.



Famed Builder Is Acquired

Jul 15th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

Aecom Technology has acquired Tishman Construction, the builder of the original Trade Towers, combining two leaders in the field of commercial and government building.



A Toothsome Time for Tom Barrack

Jul 14th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

Colony Capital Chief Executive Tom Barrack has a new following: fans of the vampire-novel series ‘Twilight.’



Discord Delays Hamburg Concert Hall

Jul 14th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

Hamburg, Germany, had grand plans for a world-class cultural center. Cost overruns, construction mistakes, delays and feuding among the city, the architects and the builders have marred the project.



Colony, Cogsville Team Up in FDIC Asset Sale

Jul 14th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

The venture, the first in a public-private partnership in which a minority-owned firm has taken a stake, won the bidding for a $1.85 billion portfolio of distressed commercial real-estate loans.



Alliance Global to Build Philippine Hotel

Jul 14th, 2010 | By WSJ.com: Real Estate | Category: News worldwide

The hotel will be the group’s fourth at its Newport City development.