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Here is the latest commercial real estate news from the Wall Street Journal:

Wall Street Journal Commercial Real Estate News:

5/15/2012 9:26 PM

In their bid to keep shoppers from deserting to the Internet, more malls are adding sprawling play spaces....Read More

Builder Is Constructing REIT for Home Rentals

5/8/2012 6:31 PM

Beazer Homes has formed a REIT with KKR that will buy and then rent single-family homes, one of the largest and most talked-about asset classes in the real-estate business...Read More

Pointed Spat Over World Trade Spire

5/10/2012 1:52 PM

One World Trade Center's owners are sparring with their architects over what goes on top—a dispute that could stop the structure being recognized as America's tallest...Read More

Tax Terms Amended in Empire State Building IPO

5/9/2012 10:15 AM

The Malkin family that controls the Empire State Building has agreed to change the terms of the skyscraper's public offering, making the tax treatment less punitive to small investors...Read More

Ohio REIT Heads Upscale

5/8/2012 8:16 PM

Associated Estates Realty Corp., which owns rental-apartment buildings in cities like Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, is pushing into the upscale Los Angeles market despite some investor concerns....Read More

Plots & Ploys: Looks Don't Matter

5/9/2012 8:30 AM

Strange looks of a building apparently aren't enough to scare off big-name investors. That's the case with 100 Federal Street in Boston—the so-called "pregnant building" recently purchased by Boston Properties...Read More

U.K. Pushes 'Social' Housing REIT Plan

5/9/2012 5:11 AM

Facing a dearth of new-home construction, the U.K. real-estate industry and government are looking at ways to encourage the formation of new real-estate investment trusts that would focus on subsidized housing...Read More

The New Nontraded REITs

5/4/2012 9:12 PM

A controversial real-estate investment is getting a makeover—and while the critics still aren't sold, some advisers say it is worth considering for investors comfortable with the risks...Read More

Paris Business Hub Goes on Defense

5/2/2012 10:38 AM

Paris's La Défense district, launched more than 50 years ago and now the largest business center in continental Europe, is suffering growing pains that raise questions about how and where Paris will expand in the future...Read More

Deal Is Near to Develop Willets Point

5/16/2012 7:58 PM

The Bloomberg administration is nearing a deal with the Related Cos. and a real-estate firm controlled by owners of the New York Mets to build a retail and residential development on a gritty swath of Queens near Citi Field....Read More