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Ashford real estate trust completes hotel refi (AP via Yahoo! News) - Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., a hotel real estate investment trust, said Monday it finished a $19.7 million refinancing of its Hilton El Conquistador Hotel and country Club in Tuscon, Ariz.

Manhattan Residential Real Estate Now 'Reasonable' (Nasdaq) - NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The weather in Manhattan may be in deep freeze, but the real estate market continues to thaw. With prices falling--co-ops have hit 2005 levels--buyers are pounding the (frozen) pavement hunting deals.

Real Estate Poses Risk to U.S. Recovery, Ryding Says (Update1) (Bloomberg) - Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The commercial real estate market poses a threat to the U.S. recovery, said John Ryding , chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.

Ashford real estate trust completes hotel refi (San Francisco Chronicle) - Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., a hotel real estate investment trust, said Monday it finished a $19.7 million refinancing of its Hilton El Conquistador Hotel and country Club in Tuscon, Ariz. The old loan was to mature in June 2011. The new loan, with... Real estate - Real estate investment trust - Business - Investing - Commercial

'Couples Retreat' actor Vince Vaughn marries real estate agent outside Chicago (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - LOS ANGELES - "Wedding Crashers" actor Vince Vaughn is a groom. Vaughn's spokesman, Alan Nierob, said Monday the 39-year-old "Couples Retreat" and "Swingers" actor wed 31-year-old real estate agent Kyla Weber in a small private ceremony Saturday outside Chicago.

Economy will continue to weigh down the commercial real estate sector this year (The Press-Enterprise) - The economy will continue to weigh down the commercial real estate sector this year, but a company with a heavy presence in Inland Southern California believes the free-fall is probably over.

Sales Rise Spurs Optimism In Manhattan Real Estate (New York Times) - The 2009 Manhattan real estate market ended on a better note than it began, according to fourth-quarter reports that were to be released Tuesday by the city’s largest brokerages.

Real estate investors to face challenges in 2010 (Detroit Free Press) - Commercial real estate investors face another bleak year in 2010, but the market appears to be bottoming out both nationally and in metro Detroit, a leading real estate firm said today.

Survey: Real estate declines in '10 (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - 2010 will bring another year of increased vacancy, lower real estate prices and fewer sales to the local real estate market, Grubb & Ellis/West Shell Commercial said Monday.

Vince Vaughn marries Canadian real estate agent (CTV.ca) - "Wedding Crashers" actor Vince Vaughn is a groom. Vaughn's spokesman, Alan Nierob, said Monday that the 39-year-old "Couples Retreat" actor wed 31-year-old Canadian real estate agent Kyla Weber in a small private ceremony Saturday outside Chicago.