Gramercy Capital Corp. has agreed to buy American Financial Realty Trust for $3.4 billion, the companies said. ...

A scary report in the Washington Post talks of KB Toys' plans to potentially close 156 stores in early January, which could be viewed as an indication that the company doesn't foresee itself having a very strong holiday season. ...

The battle between General Growth Properties and SEIU became a little more heated after the union staged a rally at a GGP property in California. ...

CBL & Associates Properties is entering Brazil. ...

NetGain Real Estate has some suggestions for policies beyond cutting interest rates. ...

There are now pictures available of the Sam Walton statue in Kingfisher, Ok. Thanks Guy!

Kenneth Rosen is a very, very smart economist. ...

There's still some time left for companies to fill out and be listed in our annual Top Developers Survey. We've begun to produce an annual list showing what firms have under construction broken out by what's opening in the next 12 months and also...

Faced with a down market earlier this year, REITs began authorizing billions of dollars' worth of stock repurchases from shareholders. Approximately 50 REITs, including high-profile companies such as Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) had authorized...

We'll be putting a story on our home page later today about this, but for now, check this run-down of REIT third quarter earnings so far. ...