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An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a 75 percent stake in the Chrysler Building, one of the best-known landmarks on the New York skyline. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, closed the sale with...

An Abu Dhabi investment fund has bought a majority stake in New York City's landmark Chrysler Building. A spokeswoman for Prudential Financial Inc. says the insurer sold its 75 percent stake in the Art Deco skyscraper to the Abu Dhabi Investment Council....

Real estate investments can move in mysterious ways. Even as prices of residential homes have languished, the stocks of companies that own and manage self-storage buildings, apartment complexes, shopping centers and office buildings have enjoyed a...

Now that the keys to the Flatiron Building are held in Italy and the Chrysler Building may soon be owned by investment from Abu Dhabi, New York's iconic skyline seems to be increasingly under the ownership of foreign investors. "We get the impression...

Although residential real estate markets have struggled, commercial real estate investments have continued to prosper. Proving an army of doomsayers wrong, real estate mutual funds and real estate investment trusts have outperformed the Standard & Poor's...

New York's Mort Zuckerman called Sam Zell to congratulate him last week after Tribune Co.'s board accepted the Chicago real estate tycoon's proposal to take the media company private. "I wished him well, but I haven't spoken to him about it in any kind...

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Only in Manhattan could a battleship-gray colossus rise 750 feet into the sky and go largely unnoticed by the people at its feet. For two years, drivers and pedestrians have been picking their way through Columbus Circle, so preoccupied with the shifting...

On a clear day in Manhattan, subway riders emerging from the Columbus Circle station may be momentarily blinded by the sunlight shimmering off two glass-sheathed towers. Tourists pass by and snap photographs of the nearly completed 750-foot-high...

A feature of life near the World Trade Center site returned yesterday when a post office reopened for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks. The 90 Church Street post office, badly damaged when the towers collapsed almost three years ago, was...

Much has been written about heroes in the past year, but the unsung hero has been the American consumer, who almost single-handedly prevented the country from plunging into a deep and prolonged recession. Immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,...