Commercial real estate (BizJournals)
Two years ago, the biggest problem for the commercial real estate industry was the construction cost for new buildings. For 2009, the problem might be no new buildings.

A tenant market's meltdown (Channel NewsAsia)
SINGAPORE - Tenants for office space are beginning to enjoy more bargaining power as increased supply for such commercial property and a weakening economy drive rents lower.

More empty office space bodes poorly for banks (Pioneer Press)
Vacancy rates in office buildings exceed 10 percent in virtually every major city in the country and are rising rapidly, a sign of economic distress that could lead to yet another wave of problems for troubled lenders.

Mercator Minerals Ships First Copper Concentrates at Its Mineral Park Mine (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Mercator Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has commenced shipping copper concentrates from its newly expanded Mineral Park Mine in Arizona, less than two years from completion of its December 29, 2006 Technical Report.

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.

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.

Commercial properties face bursting bubble (Moldova.org)
Rising vacancy rates in U.S. office buildings are pointing to a possibility that a commercial real estate bubble could burst, industry observes said.Vacancy rates have reached 10 percent and are rising quickly in major U.S. cities, The New York Times reported Monday.The Real Estate Roundtable, a lobbying group in Washington, has asked Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. to include commercial ...