Proposed downtown office buildings off to mixed starts (BizJournals)
THEN Date: March 14, 2008 Headline: ‘Downtown office towers jump off starting block in tandem’

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
By most accounts, the commercial property market reached its pinnacle in early 2007 with the Blackstone Group ’s acquisition of Equity Office Properties Trust and its prized cache of more than 500 office buildings.

Tower REIT revalues 3 properties (Business Times (Malaysia))
TOWER Real Estate Investment Trust has revalued three properties under its stable namely Menara HLA, HP Towers and Menara ING. The revaluation exercise conducted by GLM REIT Management Sdn Bhd, manager of Tower REIT, was to ascertain the current market values of the three buildings.

DJ DGAP-PVR: Publication according to § 26 paragraph. 1 WpHG with the objective of Europe-wide distribution (Financial.de)
alstria office REIT-AG / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share) 05.01.2009 Release of a Voting Rights announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG.

Dick Hogan - Commercial Property (The News-Press)
- Larry and Lorinda Close purchased a 1,584-square-foot commercial building on 0.62 acre at 19059 S. Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, for $410,000. Michael Frye, CCIM, and Steve Spinosa of the Frye Commercial Group at RE/MAX Realty Group Commercial Division, negotiated the transaction.

BURSA MALAYSIA SCOREBOARD: JAN 05 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
BURSA MALAYSIA SCOREBOARD: JAN 05 . UP DOWN UNCHANGED TRADED CONSUMER 42 10 13 65 INDUSTRIALS 93 14 23 130 CONSTRUCTION 24 6 6 36 TRADING/SERVICES 91 22 21 134 TECHNOLOGY 11 3 2 16 FINANCE 32 4 6 42 HOTELS 4 0 0 4 PROPERTIES 56 14 5 75 PLANTATIONS 35 2 3 40 MINING 1 0 0 1 REITS 7 2 1 10 LOAN STOCK 5 1 2 8 P4CONDITION 0 0 0 0 SECOND BOARD 72 24 26 122 CLOSED/FUND 1 0 0 1 ETF 1 1 0 2 ...

U.K. Commercial Property Index Fell Most on Record in 2008 (Bloomberg)
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. commercial property companies recorded their worst year in 2008 as real estate values plummeted in the global credit crisis.

U.S. Private Equity Firms Seek Bargains in Japanese REIT Market (Commercial Property News)
Japanese REITs, which have lost more than 50 percent of their value on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since their peak last year, are increasingly attracting the attention of U.S.-based private equity firms like Oaktree Capital Management, which has launched the first tender offer for a REIT in Japan.

SHARE PRICES END FIRMER, CI UP THREE PCT - 2 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Dealers said tension between Israel and Palestine has resulted in higher crude oil prices, which have also caused crude palm oil prices to shoot up.