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Entrepreneurs are rushing to set up online marketplaces in an attempt to cash in on the market for bulk sales of foreclosed homes.

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.

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.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is asking Washington Mutual employees spread across downtown Seattle to move to its headquarters building at WaMu Center as it works to consolidate its leased space.

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.

Albuquerque's construction lenders are becoming increasingly delinquent according to third quarter statistics released by Oakland, Calif.-based Foresight Analytics.

The latest Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that home prices continued to decline by double-digit percentages in September. (FISV)

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services downgraded its corporate credit and debt ratings on Tuesday for ProLogis Inc. of Denver, the world’s largest developer/owner of distribution centers. (PLD)

Banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had a 94 percent decrease in third-quarter earnings, to $1.7 billion from $27 billion last year, caused by mounting troubled assets at insured commercial banks and savings institutions, the FDIC said Tuesday.