German Stocks Fall, Paced by Commerzbank, Hypo Real Estate, AWD (Bloomberg.com)

German Stocks Fall, Paced by Commerzbank, Hypo Real Estate, AWD (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks fell, paced by Commerzbank AG, Hypo Real Estate AG and AWD Holding AG. The benchmark DAX Index slipped 12.94 points, or 0.3 percent, to 4928.75 as of 2:40 p.m. in Frankfurt, with 28 stocks falling, one stock rising and one unchanged.

Sotheby's buys Mitchell Group real estate firm (Monterey County Herald)
The long-rumored purchase of The Mitchell Group -- Monterey County's largest independent real estate brokerage -- was culminated at midnight Monday by Sotheby's International Realty Inc.

Real estate prices firming up in Dhaka (Financial Express)
Real estate dynamics are changing fast in this city. The market, it seems, is moving because of a combination of factors, including the arrival of a clutch of companies looking for the right addresses and a sudden increase in the number of developers of upmarket property.

Prudential Real Estate Investors and Harvest Properties Acquire Westport Office Park (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Prudential Real Estate Investors announced today that on behalf of its investors it has acquired Westport Office Park in partnership with Emeryville, California-based Harvest Properties.