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Two Valley real-estate firms going corporate (The Arizona Republic) - Valley commercial real-estate brokerages are making changes to accommodate their new major clients, the nation's big lenders.

TIP SHEET: Weak Commercial Real Estate Market Hides Deals (Fox News) - TIP SHEET: Weak Commercial Real Estate Market Hides Deals

Hungary's Constitutional Court Annuls Real-Estate Tax (Fox News) - Hungary's Constitutional Court Annuls Real-Estate Tax

The Hartford To Lose Money On Manhattan Real Estate Investment (Hartford Courant) - The Hartford Financial Services Group is among a list of investors that stand to lose on one of the largest, most high-profile real estate transactions during the housing bubble.

Hungary Wealth Tax on Real Estate Unconstitutional, Court Says (Bloomberg) - Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Hungary’s wealth tax for high-value real estate, which would have helped the government meet budget deficit targets attached to the country’s International Monetary Fund-led bailout, was struck down by the Constitutional Court.

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Opens Whole Foods Market and Café At Plymouth Meeting Mall (GroceryRetailOnline) - Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust recently announced the opening of Whole Foods Market and Café at Plymouth Meeting Mall, in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. The 65,000-square foot grocery store, the largest of its kind in the Philadelphia market, joins Macy's and Boscov's as an innovative anchor at the property

Hungarian Constitutional Court nullifies real estate tax law (People's Daily) - The Hungarian Constitutional Court nullified a controversial real estate tax law on Tuesday citing a violation of legal security. The high court's unanimous and retroactive decision means that the central government will not be able to collect a real estate tax voted into law last year, depriving the central budget of 50 billion forints (about 260 million U.S. dollars) inflow in 2010. The ...

The Real Estate Council Announces Endorsements for March Primaries (dBusinessNews.com) - Dallas - The Real Estate Council (TREC), a 1,600-member commercial real estate organization, announced its candidate endorsements for Texas’ March 3rd primary elections.

Tishman deal fails: sign of trouble in commercial real estate (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) - The largest real estate deal ever has failed.

Industrial real estate activity increases, availability stabalizes, report says (The Star-Ledger) - New Jersey's industrial real estate availability remained static at the end of 2009 despite an increase in leasing activity, according to a report from CB Richard Ellis. The Los Angeles-based commercial real estate firm said Tuesday that about 4.37 million...