Friday, 25 May 2012, Bloomberg

The developer of the One Hyde Park apartment complex in London’s affluent Knightsbridge sold the last of three retail spaces in the property for more than £17 million ($26.6m).
The 2,982 square-foot (277 square-metre) space currently occupied by Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) PJSC, was sold to an....
moreThursday, 24 May 2012, Bloomberg

Barwa Real Estate Co, Qatar’s second-largest property developer by market value, plans to award contracts to build a 2 billion-riyal ($550 million) residential community for labourers within two months.
“We floated the tender now and we expect to award it in July,” Chief Executive Officer A....
moreThursday, 24 May 2012, Reuters, Washington

The US spring home-selling season got off to a strong start in April, with rising sales and prices providing evidence that a housing market recovery was gaining some traction.
The housing sector has been the Achilles' heel of the economy ever since the home-price bubble burst. Data this week, howev....
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