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Commercial Real Estate Deals Decline in Cooling of U.S. Property Rebound By David M. Levitt, Hui-yong Yu and Dan Levy - 2011.10.19 09:01 PM The U.S. commercial real estate market has slowed in the past three months as the sputtering economy and a pullback in debt financing limited deals, cooling a recovery from Washington to California.

NYC Tower Buyers Wrestle Towering Vacancy Dilemma (Update1) By David M. Levitt - October 23, 2009 13:08 EDT Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Real estate investor Peter Duncan, who negotiated the nation’s biggest property deal of the year in buying Manhattan’s Worldwide Plaza, is now in charge of a skyscraper that’s 40 percent empty. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJG1.l7fPiik