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Lincoln Property Co. has purchased a large distribution hub in the west Valley for $35 million.

Future accounting rules are unlikely to require Fannie and Freddie to hold more capital, their regulator said. Shares of both rose over 11%.

IndyMac began dismantling most of its business amid heavy losses from mortgage defaults. Shares fell 38%.

An Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has purchased a majority stake in the Chrysler Building, one of New York's most iconic skyscrapers.

Colorado & Santa Fe Real Estate of Broomfield has sold a commercial building in the Inverness office park in Englewood for $3.25 million.

Bank of America Corp.’s chief executive Ken Lewis expects the U.S. economy to gradually begin to recover by the middle of next year. (BAC)

New construction and job growth have continued to chug along in the Washington area, but developers are shying away from Metro stations compared to years past.

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed separate complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee against Senator Barack Obama for allegedly accepting a below-market rate mortgage loan in 2005 not available to the general consumer.

While the loss of a tenant can prove disastrous for a sole landlord in a real-estate deal, the experience of multiple investors in a Phoenix bottling plant shows that the headaches can be magnified if something goes awry in a tenant-in-common structure.