Dec
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Real Estate | 
12 9th, 2008| 
The decline in the fortunes of Spain's Sanahuja family and its real-estate group, Metrovacesa, is a preview of what is in store for Europe's real-estate tycoons.
Dec
9
Oregon's bid to cash in on its green appeal has given a boost to Portland's commercial-real-estate market.
Dec
9
Lightstone Group's problems are worsening as four more of its shopping malls are close to being turned over to lenders.
Dec
8
General Growth's losses show how the crisis is hitting not just risk-loving Wall Street firms but also family-run companies with histories of conservative growth.
Dec
8
Extended Stay Hotels is in early talks that could result in turning the hotel chain over to its lenders.
Dec
5
Citigroup bought a 5.3% stake in General Growth even as it is playing tough in debt-extension talks. The mall owner faces bankruptcy if it can't extend a big loan with a group including Citi.
Dec
4
Goldman's Whitehall family of real-estate funds is struggling with weak performance and potentially big losses.
Dec
4
J.P. Morgan seized tens of millions of dollars of collateral from a fund run by Guggenheim and started to auction it off following the fund's failure to come up with additional capital to meet margin calls.
Dec
2
Leaders in Toledo, Ohio, are looking to attract younger and more diverse workers to the area as they scramble to reduce their city's exposure to Detroit's troubles.
Dec
2
The collapse of LandAmerica has left investors scrambling to recover money in what was supposed to be a short-term and low-risk arrangement.
Dec
2
Lenders are starting to warm to the idea of selling foreclosed homes in bulk to investors, a departure from the practice of selling homes one at a time.
Dec
2
Glimcher Realty Trust, which warned for months that it might forfeit the Eastland Mall in Charlotte, N.C., instead struck a deal to keep the property for a while longer.
Dec
2
Lack of financing and a deteriorating economy are forcing funds and real-estate investment trusts to boost cash flow by selling assets at rock-bottom prices.
Dec
2
A member of Macau's Ho casino family unveiled plans to develop a five-star hotel on Macau's Cotai Strip.
Dec
2
Debt-laden mall owner General Growth Properties gained another short-term extension of a debt-payment deadline, this time obtaining 10 more days to pay down $58 million in bonds.
Dec
1
Deutsche Bank sued Donald Trump over an outstanding balance on the developer's troubled Chicago condominium and hotel project.
Dec
1
The economic crisis will force the U.S. to decide how to repair Fannie, Freddie, the Federal Home Loan Banks and the Federal Housing Administration.
Nov
30
General Growth Properties won a two-week extension of its deadline to pay a $900 million debt.
Nov
27
The global economic decline has put a damper on Dubai's real-estate market. Now, the boomtown's nascent advertising boom is feeling the effects.
Nov
26
Entrepreneurs are rushing to set up online marketplaces in an attempt to cash in on the market for bulk sales of foreclosed homes.
Nov
26
Home builders are railing against the FDIC, saying the agency is cutting off construction financing from seized banks and demanding early repayment of current loans.
Nov
26
The Federal Reserve's attempt to stabilize the housing market set off a chain reaction that dropped rates and spurred a burst of refinancing activity by borrowers eager to lower mortgage costs.
Nov
25
The record plunge of the commercial real-estate securities market has claimed its first major casualty: a $1.5 billion fund with investors including Ross Perot.
Nov
25
Activist investor William Ackman sees something in debt-laden mall owner General Growth Properties that most others don't.
Nov
25
One consolation is emerging as the stocks of property companies get pounded: some firms are more willing to disclose the details of their financings.
Nov
25
The Dallas-Fort Worth region's retail sector is under pressure. Developers have bet big on its increasing population and the economy's links to the energy sector.
Nov
25
Home builders are lobbying Congress for a $250 billion stimulus package, arguing that financial markets won't recover until home prices stop falling.
Nov
25
Dubai moved to shore up sentiment in the city-state's flagging real-estate market, while unveiling details of a federally orchestrated merger of two big home lenders.
Nov
24
Construction companies could be poised for a rebound under Obama's expected stimulus package.
Nov
24
These days, everything has a knock-on effect. Earlier in the week, an analyst report on the potential default of a couple of commercial-mortgage deals caused a big hit to the corresponding credit market. That, in turn, has caused a selloff in the stocks of REITs.