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A $49 million loan on a Florida shopping mall that was facing a foreclosure action before it was refinanced has been stripped from an issue of commercial mortgage-backed securities that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is bringing to market this week.

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Most retailers don’t build their own stores. But Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc., owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, wants to do just that—along with developing a city-within-a-city around it on a 433-acre swath in a Dallas suburb.

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Buffett Wants This Site To Be Fully Furnished

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Investor Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital has agreed to buy a 90% stake in seven U.S. malls, including the SouthPark mall in Cleveland, from Australian mall owner Westfield Group for $1.05 billion.

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Starwood Capital to Buy Malls

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Howard Lutnick, the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, is aiming to integrate Grubb & Ellis with Newmark to form what he hopes will be one of the leading commercial real-estate-services companies in the world.

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Cantor Construction Job

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Costar… While the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) doesn’t reveal the identities of banks listed on its “Problem List” of institutions — ones that the FDIC determines pose a greater risk of loss to its deposit insurance fund — there is nothing stopping the problem banks’ parent companies from identifying themselves. In a study of annual reports filed by bank holding companies in the first quarter of this year, CoStar Group found 15 firms that… Continue reading here: Bank Annual Reports: Treasure Maps to $700 Million in Distressed CRE Assets Find our Weekly Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity and Fund Newsletters at www.WeeklyBrief.net

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Costar… Cross-border investment in real estate reached its highest level in three years in 2011, with New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago accounting for five of the top 10 international markets. However, hopes for a massive influx of foreign capital into U.S. property markets by risk-averse international investors has so far gone unfulfilled. That may be changing, according to recent separate reports from Property and Portfolio… More: SAFE HAVEN? Europe’s Investment Woes May Push More Offshore Capital To U.S. Find our Weekly Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity and Fund Newsletters at www.WeeklyBrief.net

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American International Group is planning to jump back into U.S. property investing, reversing yearslong efforts to downsize its real-estate business in the wake of its near-collapse and government bailout in 2008.

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AIG to Return to U.S. Property Investing

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Cash-strapped Chinese property companies may face a reckoning this year amid high debts and a government campaign to bring down housing prices. If that happens, a number of outside investors are waiting to step in.

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Property Investors Lie in Wait in China

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A group of creditors including Related Cos., CIM Group and HFZ Capital won control of One Madison Park, a nearly-completed glass condominium tower in Manhattan that had been stalled in court fights for more than two years.

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Manhattan Tower’s Fate Resolved

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Two real estate powerhouses are angling for control of a massive industrial portfolio hoping to capitalize on an expected economic recovery.

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Industrial-Space Showdown

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The commercial mortgage-backed securities market in the U.S. has increasingly resembled a battlefield as delinquencies have mounted and lawsuits, foreclosures and other fights have mushroomed. In Europe, by comparison, some efforts to fix distressed commercial mortgage securities, or CMBS, look refreshingly civilized.

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Europe’s Gentler Debt Deals

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Gasoline prices have jumped in the past year and in some cities are hovering near record highs, boosting oil company profits. But for some real-estate companies that own gasoline stations, times are tough.

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High Prices, Rent Spark Fuel Feud

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Five-year loans made at the height of the boom in 2007 are coming due this year, and so far the results aren’t pretty.

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Rowdy Class of 2007 Is Causing Problems

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A once-highflying real estate fund that counts Harvard University, Duke University and other blue-chip names as investors is laying off its entire investment staff after determining it can’t raise new funds.

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Short of New Funds, Firm Takes a ‘Pause’

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Four years before it hosts the 2016 Games, an Olympian effort is under way in Rio de Janeiro to make over the city, which also will host the World Cup finals in 2014.

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Rio Hopes for an Olympic-Style Revival

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A legal ruling potentially could give many debtholders across the U.S. new grounds to recover money from landlords who lost their properties to foreclosure.

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Fashion boutique Rag & Bone is planning to open its first Upper East Side store—but its sixth in New York—in former bank space along the trendy Madison Avenue retail strip.

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What’s the Deal

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Commercial real-estate brokerages on Monday begin releasing their reports on first-quarter office-leasing activity, and the numbers don’t bode well for the firms’ New York profits.

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Office Leasing’s Big Drop

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After a two-year search, Havas SA has leased 260,000-square-feet from Trinity Real Estate, in a deal that will create a two-building campus for the firm at 200 and 205 Hudson St.

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Havas Makes Hudson Home

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Costar… This week a bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of the venerable but cash-strapped Grubb & Ellis Co. to BGC Partners, Inc., ushering in the latest in a series of changes that have roiled the commercial real estate brokerage business. Next comes the hard work involved in exiting bankruptcy and integrating the new acquisition. Among the challenges the two firms face are preserving Grubb & Ellis’s property and facilities management and brokerage… Read the rest here: After Sale Approval In Bankruptcy Court, Grubb & Ellis Moves To Next Phase Under BGC Find our Weekly Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity and Fund Newsletters at www.WeeklyBrief.net

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