Barwa said it will buy Park House development in London's fashionable West End district for $369 million, as Qatari investors continue to snap up prime real estate in the city.

Turkey is becoming increasingly attractive for international investors as it continues to open markets and adapt its laws to European norms in its bid to join the EU.

BP has put 114 gasoline stations and convenience-store properties on the block in 22 states. Potential buyers may think they have the advantage on pricing.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is imperiling billions of dollars of commercial real-estate investments with potentially grave repercussions for developers, lenders and investors.

Developers will start construction later this month on a long-planned luxury high-rise condominium in Dallas, an unusual example of new development for a sector that was battered by the housing bust.

Some of the nation's largest apartment-building landlords are reporting that rent declines have stopped and some are even boasting modest increases.

Prominent Florida Panhandle landowner St. Joe has seen its stock pummeled on concern that the oil spill could cut into its tourism business.

Home builders are welcoming what they see as a returning market in Central Florida by snatching up cheap land and beginning construction on smaller, less expensive subdivisions.