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Pointed Spat Over World Trade Spire

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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Cantor Construction Job

April 17, 2012

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.

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Rio Hopes for an Olympic-Style Revival

April 4, 2012

Four years before it hosts the 2016 Games, an Olympian effort is under way in Rio de Janeiro to make over the city, which also will host the World Cup finals in 2014.

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Toronto Wants to Lure People to Water

March 7, 2012

An effort is under way in Toronto to reclaim 2,000 acres of the city’s shoreline, once the home of tanneries, scrap yards and cement factories, in one of the world’s biggest waterfront revitalization efforts.

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Hong Kong Patriarch Turns Over the Keys

March 1, 2012

Cheng Yu-tung, the 86-year-old patriarch of property titan New World Development, has handed the reins of the empire he co-founded to his eldest son, becoming the first of the city’s aging real-estate tycoons to retire.

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Texas’s Hines to Double Down in London

February 22, 2012

Hines, one of the world’s largest real-estate groups in terms of assets, is preparing to spend $1.6 billion on buildings in the U.K., doubling its assets in the country in an effort to diversify away from riskier acquisitions.

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Tower Rises, and So Does Its Price Tag

January 30, 2012

The price tag for One World Trade Center, the signature skyscraper under construction at Ground Zero in New York, has risen to more than $3.8 billion, making it by far the world’s most expensive new office tower.

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CBRE’s Chief Talks Property

December 14, 2011

CEO Brett White as played a major role in building the company into the world’s largest real-estate services and brokerage firms, with 2010 revenue of $5.1 billion.

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Prologis Feels Effect of European Presence

December 14, 2011

Prologis, the world’s largest public owner of warehouses, is fending off investor fears that a financial meltdown in Europe would be a major setback.

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Scaling Back on Abu Dhabi Growth

November 30, 2011

Abu Dhabi, which holds 7% of the world’s oil reserves, is scaling back its ambitious real-estate projects to conserve cash.

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New World Development Plans Capital-Raising

October 18, 2011

New World Development proposes to raise as much as US$1.59 billion from a rights issue in Hong Kong, in a move aimed at strengthening its capital base.

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Blackstone Sells Stake in Shanghai Mall

September 28, 2011

Blackstone Group is selling its 95% stake in a Shanghai mall to New World Development for $228 million.

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Schiphol Airport City Takes Off

July 26, 2011

When Terremark Worldwide looked for a new European data-center location, it found Amsterdam’s airport city to be a natural fit. Terremark’s reasons for choosing Schiphol help explain why it is emerging as one of the leading airport cities in the world.

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Nomura to Move to New York’s Midtown

June 29, 2011

Plots & Ploys: WorldWide Plaza’s gain is World Financial Center’s loss. Also, Red Roof Inn debt and LA Fitness.

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Americans’ home equity near a record low

June 10, 2011

Falling U.S. home prices have shrunk equity so much that the proportion of their homes that Americans actually own is near its lowest point since World War II.  Excerpt from: Americans’ home equity near a record low

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Mass-Market Retailers Head to Hong Kong

May 10, 2011

Retailers such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap, Apple and American Eagle are flocking to Hong Kong, one of the world’s top luxury shopping cities, driving up rents for retail space in their effort to market themselves to mainland Chinese consumers.

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Hong Kong Housing Fever May Cool

April 26, 2011

Higher borrowing costs may finally lead to falling prices in the world’s least-affordable housing market, one that so far has resisted government efforts to cool it down.

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Skyscraper, Moneymaker

April 11, 2011

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, may never break even. But recent innovations are now improving the economic feasibility of future skyscrapers, including Hong Kong’s International Commerce Centre.

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Wolseley Swings to Profit

March 29, 2011

Wolseley, the world’s largest plumbing- and building-products merchant by market value, said it had swung to a first-half profit as demand rebounding in most of its markets.

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Dubai Stocks Gain Most in 10 Weeks as Mideast Shares Rally on Europe, Oil

February 16, 2011

By Zahra Hankir June 20 (Bloomberg) — Dubai’s benchmark stock index rose the most in 10 weeks and Egyptian shares gained, leading a rally in Middle East markets on growing confidence that Europe will contain its debt crisis.

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