Hot property in East Milton (Pensacola News Journal)
Information tech company wants space in county's industrial park.

Damac Properties' 'XL Tower' rising at Business Bay (AME Info)
Luxury lifestyle provider, Damac Properties has announced that XL Tower, a modern and elegant commercial tower located at Business Bay has reached the Podium 3 level.

Check It Out (Israel National News)
(IsraelNN.com) French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European officials met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Achmed Abu El-Reit Monday. In the meeting the parties discussed the possibility of brokering a cease fire between Egypt and Hamas.

Grubb & Ellis Predicts a Challenging 2009 for Commercial Real Estate as Economy Weathers Recession (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Grubb & Ellis Company , a leading real estate services and investment firm, today released its 2009 Global Real Estate Forecast, which indicates that 2009 will be a challenging year for commercial real estate with the economy starting the year 13 months into what may become the longest recession since the 1930s.

Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals (New York Times)
The credit crisis and recession crushed deal making in office buildings in 2008.

2008: The year that wasn’t in commercial real estate (BizJournals)
In many ways, 2008 was the year that wasn’t in the Louisville commercial real estate market.

Local inventors could score cash, office space (Rapid City Journal)
A new program will award some lucky inventors some cash and office space to work on their

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.

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.

Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Normal Course Issuer Bid (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Allied Properties REIT announced today that the Toronto Stock Exchange has accepted its notice of intention to conduct a normal course issuer Bid to enable it to purchase up to 3,003,667 of its 31,235,668 outstanding units, representing approximately 10% of the REIT's public float of 30,036,674 Units as of December 23, 2008, pursuant to TSX rules.