| Hedge Funds Help Fill a Gap | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | More investors seeking financing to acquire office towers, retail stores and hotels are left with little choice but to turn to so-called hard-money lenders, lightly regulated businesses that charge high interest rates for short-term loans. Among the biggest players in the hard-money arena are hedge funds. |
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| Fresh Powder for Ski Towns | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Related has built signature buildings that helped to transform neighborhoods in Manhattan, Phoenix and South Florida. Now, the big-market developer is attempting a $3 billion redevelopment to transform Snowmass, Colo. |
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| New York's 9/11 Site Needed a Logue | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Rebuilding Ground Zero is arguably the greatest political and bureaucratic fiasco in the history of the world. Planner Edward J. Logue would have provided the leadership that the 9/11 site needed desperately and never had. |
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| Retailers Take a Slower Road in India | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Retail sales in India were expected to double in the next seven years, but growth has been disappointing. As a result, companies large and small are rethinking their expansion plans in the country. |
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| State at Crossroads Over Turnpike | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Governments and firms are awaiting a state vote, which would lease the 537-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike to a group of private investors. A green light could bolster the political will of officials in other states trying to hash out similar deals. |
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| Japan Developers' Woes Grow | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Japan has seen a raft of property developers go to the wall this year as banks have refused to refinance their loans. Analysts say the bankruptcy filings are likely to set off a vicious cycle that will weigh on the sector's shares in the coming months. |
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| Hochfelder Accused of Larceny in Deals | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | New York real-estate investor Adam Hochfelder has been arrested for allegedly "stealing more than $17 million from a panoply of banks and individuals." |
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| Learning to Embrace the Change Order | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Nancy Keates discovers that the human desire to re-think decisions inevitably leads to changes in homebuilding plans. Those changes often mean big cost overruns – but sometimes, they can also translate to big savings. |
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| Fannie Names New CFO, Risk Chief | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Fannie Mae shook up its top ranks, announcing its chief business officer and two others are leaving as it moves to save capital. Shares surged 15%. |
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| Housing Market Still Under Pressure | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Home prices are improving in some parts of the country but still falling sharply in hard-hit places like Phoenix, as the weak housing market and shaky consumer confidence continue to weigh on the battered U.S. economy. |
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| Westfield Group's Net Slides | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Westfield Group said its interim net profit fell 35% as gains from property revaluations dropped. |
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| With Republicans, It's a Green State | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Hotels in the Twin Cities are banking on John McCain and the Republican National Convention to lift a tourism market strained by a surge in rooms and increasingly budget-conscious travelers. |
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| From a Doorman to Dorm Rooms | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Columbia recently bought 127 high-end condos and has converted the building into housing for graduate students and faculty … Two decrepit Texas malls are headed for foreclosure and auction unless the owner principal owner Thomas E. Morris can once again forestall the process or pay off his lender. |
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| Simon, Westfield Buy Into U.K. REIT | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Liberty International's shares rose 5.3% in London trading as the property company appears to be the target of a looming takeover bid. |
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| Lavish Condo Project Struggles | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | The struggle of 100 Eleventh Avenue, a glitzy condominium development on Manhattan's west side targeting well-heeled buyers, shows there's no such thing as a sure thing in the current wretched credit climate. |
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| Skyline Gets Facelift Ahead of Asian Games | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Ultramodern skyscrapers, new stadiums and a 610-meter-high television and sightseeing structure are in the works in Guangzhou, China's manufacturing hub, as it prepares to host the Asian Games in 2010. |
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| Tropicana to Put Up Casino for Auction | | Monday, January 01, 0001 | | Tropicana decided to put one of its riverboat casinos on the auction block after delaying for months a proposed $220 million sale. |
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