A slowing economy, declining property values and frozen credit markets were supposed to mean that this would be a year of one-off deals. But there could be at least one REIT merger in the works. Late last week, Inland American Real Estate Trust...

When Kmart Holding Corp. announced its plans to acquire Sears, Roebuck and Co. in late 2004 to form Sears Holding Corp., there was some speculation at the time that the deal was purely a real estate play and that both the Kmart and Sears names...

With a Feb. 15 deadline to pay off or refinance $3.5 billion in short-term debt exactly one month away, embroiled Australian listed property trust Centro Properties Group made a sudden change at the top. CEO Andrew Scott stepped aside on Tuesday...

South Beach, Fla. -- The Commercial Mortgage Securities Association held its annual Investors Conference this week in South Beach, Fla., at a particularly precarious moment. Credit markets remain locked up, which has turned the previous deluge of...