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With the sharp decrease in demand for rooms and an investment crunch owing to global recession, major developers and hospitality players have had to review their plans of development.

Denver real estate veteran Ann Sperling has been named chief operating officer for the Americas at Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

Telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies has leased a 103,000-square-foot office in Plano where it will consolidate some sales and marketing operations already in the area.

GreenerBuildings.com, 9 November 2009 - Seventy-four percent of corporate real estate executives now say they would be willing to pay a premium to retrofit the office space they own to achieve sustainability goals, a new survey has found.

Third annual sustainability survey by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle finds that companies are investing funds selectively to achieve sustainability goal November 9, 2009 Corporate real estate executives, whose companies drive demand for office space, are increasingly willing to invest in refurbishing their owned assets to meet sustainability ...

Some of metro Atlanta's biggest law firms are scrambling to find new homes while office space is plentiful and rents are low.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated , the professional services firm specializing in real estate, appointed Ann Sperling Chief Operating Officer for the Americas Region.

Day Software Solutions has leased 3,887 square feet at 320 Congress St. in Boston's Fort Point Channel/Seaport District.

Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. has hired Ann Sperling, one of metro Denver's top commercial real estate executives, as chief operating officer of its America's region effective this month.

The provost of Mountain State University's Martinsburg campus told city planning commissioners on Wednesday evening that the school intends to have a third party holding corporation operate the Martinsburg Mall after the school buys it to put college classroom and office space there.

Grade-A office and commercial property markets in Taipei City are expected to outperform their peers in Asia to experience the smallest decline in both rentals and capital values during the downturn in the property market, Jones Lang LaSalle executives said yesterday.

The abandoned Keystone Towers complex on the city's Northeastside could get a new owner through the unusual process of auctioning its mortgage next week.

According to a Jones Lang LaSalle survey of banks, almost 75% of those surveyed said 'liquidity easily trumps loss reserve issues' while only 26% of direct lenders, synidcators and mortgage banking companies have put write-downs on their portfolios on the top of priority lists.

ONE of Helston's most prominent buildings has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.

The slowdown in the property market is taking its toll on developers in Abu Dhabi and only 45,000 homes will be completed in the capital in the next four years, half of what was originally expected, according to a property consultancy.

One of Putneya s most famous landmarks went under the hammer last week fetching a credit-crunching A 3.4m. The Star and Garter pub, situated on the Lower Richmond Road, and the building which houses were bought by a mystery investor at last Tuesdaya s auction.

Expressions of interest close next Wednesday, October 28 for AMI house at 63 Albert St.

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EDINBURGH hotel and nightclub tycoon Kenny Waugh has put a tranche of property up for sale through his leisure company Festival Group.

AMID expectations that the turnaround in the CBD office sector will flow through to North Sydney, there remains a significant number of properties worth a combined value of more than $500 million being put to market, both officially and off market.