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Commercial Real Estate

If Kids Can Play, Will Mom Shop?

May 16, 2012

In their bid to keep shoppers from deserting to the Internet, more malls are adding sprawling play spaces.

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Spire’s Antenna Spurs Towering Spat

May 10, 2012

As construction of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan moves toward completion, the building’s owners are sparring with their architects.

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Plots & Ploys: Looks Don’t Matter

May 8, 2012

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.

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Ohio REIT Heads Upscale

May 8, 2012

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.

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The New Nontraded REITs

May 5, 2012

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.

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Deal Is Near to Develop Willets Point

May 3, 2012

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.

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Chicago’s Spire Remains Hole in the Ground

May 2, 2012

The rubble-strewn Chicago lot where North America’s tallest residential building was to have been built is turning into an international money pit.

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Paris Business Hub Goes on Defense

May 2, 2012

Paris’s La Défense 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.

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High Demand for High-End Real Estate in Paris

May 2, 2012

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.

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A Hotel for California

May 1, 2012

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.

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Recent Arrivals Dull Montauk’s Gritty Edge

April 27, 2012

Some locals see the changes in the hamlet as a sign that Hamptons posh has completed its eastward march to Montauk.

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KKR Makes Push Into Real Estate

April 25, 2012

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.

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REITs Spring an Unnerving Surprise

April 24, 2012

Investors are discovering the downsides of some nontraded REITs: They are being valued at prices far lower than investors had expected.

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CBRE Profit Declines 22%

April 24, 2012

A 14% increase in revenue couldn’t offset the charges incurred from the firm’s acquisition of the real-estate businesses of ING Groep.

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Eurohypo Unloads U.S. Loan Portfolio

April 24, 2012

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.

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Starwood’s Crystal Vision

April 24, 2012

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.

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Turkey Aims to Lure Foreign Buyers

April 24, 2012

The Turkish government is close to amending legislation that would allow certain foreign buyers to purchase property. Industry observers hope this will spark demand.

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The Best Spots to Set Up Shop

April 18, 2012

Inside two boutiques’ race for a desirable store site in Beverly Hills.

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Buffett Wants This Site To Be Fully Furnished

April 18, 2012

Most retailers don’t build their own stores. But Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc., owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, wants to do just that—along with developing a city-within-a-city around it on a 433-acre swath in a Dallas suburb.

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Goldman in Talks On Hotel’s Debt

April 18, 2012

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.

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