Property attracting investors / Record spending on commercial real estate expected (San Francisco Chronicle)

Property attracting investors / Record spending on commercial real estate expected (San Francisco Chronicle)
Investors will pour a record $200 billion into commercial property in the United States this year, according to a survey presented Tuesday by a real estate services firm at an industry gathering in San Francisco. Pension funds, private equity firms and...

Katrina flattens real-estate sales (Tacoma News Tribune)
NEW ORLEANS - Shannon Sharpe, a real estate agent in New Orleans for the past five years, spends her days trying to deal with her flooded house and find customers.