New real-estate players overshadow old markets (CBS Market Watch)

New real-estate players overshadow old markets (CBS Market Watch)
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- San Francisco, Boston, New York, Los Angeles. They all used to be the cities real-estate watchers pointed to when wild market fluctuations were afoot.

Hypo Real Estate Bk Adds EUR250M To 3.25% Bond At 102.006 (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Asia News)
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Hypo Real Estate Bank, a unit of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRX.XE), has added EUR250 million to its 3.25% bonds due March 2012, lead managers BayernLB, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Hypovereinsbank, WestLB, Landesbank Baden Wuerttemberg, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Westdeutsche Genossenschafts-Zentrale said Friday.

Assets under real estate mutual funds rise 19.8% (New Ratings)
NEW YORK, July 26 (newratings.com) Analysts at BB&T Capital Markets point out that the assets held in real estate mutual funds have increased by 19.8% since the end of 2004, with a significant portion of the increase attributable to share price appreciation.