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• Under Contract (Oct. 5-11): Financial Markets Killing Deals
  In this week’s issue: Strategic Hotels checks out of a deal. Plus we give you the lates...
  
• Property Finance (Oct. 5-11): Three Homebuilders Get a Break
  In this week's issue: Three homebuilders line up new credit facilities. CBL clears up 2...
  
• Closures & Layoffs (Oct. 5 -11): Another 159,000 Jobs Gone
  In this week's issue: Manufacturing, retail, construction lead job losses. Plus we repo...
  
• Expansions & Relocations (Oct. 5-11): Army Mobilizing 6,400 in Alexandria, VA
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• MGM Mirage and Partner Double Down on Massive Vegas Project
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• Survey Charts Direction of Store Openings & Closings Among Major Retailers
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  CoStar has an excellent chart up along with a story analyzing store openings and closings. A must read.

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• Innvest And Royal Host REITs Targets Cut
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• IS THE GRASS ANY GREENER SOMEWHERE ELSE?
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  Our latest op-ed piece from Global Capital Trends, the Real Capital Analytics publication on international real estate.
  
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  Several REITs have arranged new financing deals in the past couple of weeks. I thought it might be interesting to run...

  
  
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• Same-Store Sales Rise 1.0 Percent in September
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  ICSC just reported their monthly same-store sales figures. Retailers posted a 1.0 percent gain compared with the same...

  
  
• Walgreen Gives Up on Longs Bid
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  Walgreen Co. withdrew an unsolicited offer to buy smaller rival Longs Drug Stores Corp. on Wednesday, citing Longs’ u...

  
  
• When they say "national banks," they mean it!
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  So, the latest rescue plan for the economy is that the government may directly inject capital into banks in exchange ...
  

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