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In this week's edition, Tishman Speyer's long-planned Gotham Center megaproject in Long Island City, Queens gets under way. On the West Coast, an $850 million project on a former landfill site in Los Angeles County by LNR Property Corp. and Hopkins Real...

Tougher travel restrictions and the credit crisis are posing a serious threat to Macau's status as the gambling industry's biggest growth engine.

Centerline Holding may not be able to meet its near-term debt obligations, Moody's warned Friday while cutting the company's credit rating deeper into the junk territory.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Primaris Retail REIT (TSX: PMZ.UN) announces today its October 2008 monthly distribution in the amount of $0.1016. Payment will be made on november 17th, 2008 to holders of record as of October 31st, 2008.

MEQUON, WI (MARKET WIRE) Despite the unsettled conditions in today's mortgage marketplace, Americans are still buying homes at a solid pace -- and they're increasingly searching for low mortgage rates on the Internet. More than 70 percent of mortgage applicants now use the online channel for mortgage shopping(1), and savvy mortgage lenders understand that having an effective mortgage Web site is not an option, but a business necessity.

Lehman Brothers paid a European record $2.81 billion for the Coeur Defense office complex in Paris last year. A resale may fetch far less.

Grosvenor, a U.K. real-estate development and investment firm, launched a $600 million fund that will invest in China's shopping malls.

Gramercy Capital investors will focus on its ability to maintain credit lines from its lenders. A failure to do so could put the company's survival in doubt.

As mall and shopping-center owners lose tenants in the souring economy, they are at least gaining something else: more advertising space.

Property owners in the Anchorage region have benefited from higher oil prices that increased demand for the state's energy deposits.