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For Real Estate Deal Maker, a Residential Venture (New York Times) - He controls 77 million square feet of real estate around the world. He is developing Yankee Stadium for George Steinbrenner. He is a vice chairman of the Museum of Modern Art. But one thing Jerry I. Speyer is not known for, at least in New York City, is running apartment buildings.

Real Estate Agent Common Denominator in Stockton Pot House Probe (News 10 Sacramento) - A Bay Area real estate agent unwittingly became the key that broke open a Stockton police investigation into homes converted for growing marijuana crops.

Top NZ Real Estate Websites (Scoop.co.nz) - The top New Zealand websites for September from Nielsen//NetRatings' Market Intelligence service for the Real Estate category.

Soft U.S. Real Estate Market and Weak Dollar Means Great Potential for Foreign Investors (Real Estate News) - Financing options open up real estate market to international buyers

Commercial real estate is back with a vengeance (San Jose Mercury News) - Silicon Valley commercial real estate is back. Not only do third-quarter reports show a market in recovery, investors have their wallets wide open, eager to buy aging, empty campuses -- whether they are on the market or not.

Calgary loses out to Edmonton in real estate investment (Calgary Sun) - Calgary may be an investor’s dream for some, but it’s not the top spot in the province when it comes to buying real estate, a new study shows.

Commercial Real Estate is Back With a Vengeance: SALES OF TECH CAMPUSES SHOW DOWNTURN IS OVER (RedNova) - By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Oct. 17--Silicon Valley commercial real estate is back.

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE NEWS (San Jose Mercury News) - DivcoWest, the San Francisco-based real estate investment and management firm, purchased two more assets in Silicon Valley for its most recent real estate investment fund, Market Street Capital Partners. They included the two-building headquarters for Business Objects at 3000-3030 Orchard Parkway in San Jose. The properties were built by Palo Alto-based Mozart Development. Divco also purchased

Nedlloyd Scheme Transfers Real Estate Portfolio (Global Money Management) - Delta Lloyd Vastgoed will take over the direct real estate portfolio of the Nedlloyd Pension Fund , writes Investment & Pensions Europe . The transaction involves about 35 blocks of offices, retail centres and housing in the Netherlands, of which the largest is retail centre De Brusselse Poort in Maastricht.

Real estate firm buys in to D.C. brokerage (Tennessean) - A commercial real estate firm with a major presence in Nashville is expanding by buying a stake in a sister organization.