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NATIONAL Weingarten and Hines Create $271M Joint Venture for 12 Shopping Centers by Sasha M. Pardy Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE: WRI) is selling 12 supermarket-anchored shopping centers for $271 million into a joint venture with Hines Real Estate...

Hypo Real Estate reported a larger-than-expected loss in the third-quarter and said its outlook for the remainder of the year and beyond looked grim.

This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Columbia, office Max, Disney Store, and Fresh & Easy; new retail developments in NJ, MO, CA, MI and OK; acquisition, merger, loan or sale activity at Weingarten and Hines...

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Calloway REIT (TSX: CWT.UN)(TSX: CWT.DB)(TSX: CWT.DB.A) announced today that the trustees of the REIT have declared a distribution for the month of november 2008 of CDN$0.129 per trust unit, representing CDN$1.548 per unit on an annualized basis. Payment will be made on December 15, 2008 to unitholders of record on November 28, 2008.

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: CSH.UN) ("Chartwell REIT") announced today a cash distribution of $0.06167 per Trust Unit for the month of november, 2008. The cash distribution will be payable on December 15, 2008 to Unitholders of record on november 28, 2008.

A pair of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals Inc. subsidiaries, AutovaxID and Biovax, are asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tampa, Fla., to reject a lease for 24,000 square feet of office warehouse space in St. Louis’ Hill neighborhood.

Paper and janitorial products company Lagasse Sweet has signed the year’s second biggest industrial lease at Flagler Station for a 240,000-square-foot build-to-suit warehouse with room to grow.

Burns & McDonnell won a contract from Northeast Utilities to manage what the Kansas City-based engineering firm called one of the largest electric transmission line projects being developed in the United States.