Real estate prices firming up in Dhaka (Financial Express)

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.

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 23.95, or 0.5 percent, to 4917.74. Twenty-one stocks fell, seven rose and two were unchanged.

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 15.30, or 0.3 percent, to 4926.39 as of 4:59 p.m. in Frankfurt after dropping as much as 0.9 percent earlier.

Government Fine Tuning Real Estate Tax Rates (donga.com)
The government decided that it will apply new real estate policies only to those who are subject to the comprehensive property tax.