Real Estate News

Brookfield Properties is eyeing a collection of about 20 buildings in or near Washington that fell into default last summer.

Kimco Realty is the latest real-estate developer to consider pulling out of a project in the predominantly African-American and Hispanic community in upper Manhattan.

The deal saved the Four Seasons San Francisco from possible foreclosure. Westbrook also got controlling stakes in Millennium's Four Seasons Miami and Ritz-Carlton Boston.

Lawmakers approved a measure that will force holdout owners to sell apartments to a developer that buys at least 80% of a building's units. The new rule is expected to put prime real estate in play for development.

Simon Property is readying a sweetened takeover bid for bankrupt rival General Growth that would top an offer on the table from several General Growth investors.

Jones Lang LaSalle, a global commercial-real-estate services company, hired away a team of bankers from industry leader CB Richard Ellis Group.