SYDNEY: Moody’s Investors Service is maintaining its stable outlook for the Australian real estate investment trust (A-REIT) sector, in view of expectations for a continued gradual recovery in its fundamentals.

KUALA LUMPUR: It was a symbol of Dubai’s rising fortune but the Palm Jumeirah project now seems a bit out of place with the emirate’s current economic problems.

CHARLOTTE (North Carolina): Bank of America Corp has agreed to forgive some bad mortgage loans and the US government is pushing other lenders to follow suit, but on a scale too small to make much of a dent in the nation's huge pile of bad debt.

HONG KONG: Cheung Kong (Holdings), billionaire Li Ka-shing's flagship real estate conglomerate, more than quadrupled its second-half net profit on strong sales as the economy recovered and on higher contributions from associate Hutchison Whampoa.

KUALA LUMPUR: IJM Corp Bhd is bidding for projects worth RM4 billion, giving it a strong possibility of boosting its total order book past the RM4 billion mark from the current RM3.6 billion, said its CEO Datuk Krishnan Tan Boon Seng.

He said at its peak IJM used to have an order book of RM6 billion.

KUALA LUMPUR: YTL Corp Bhd plans to spread its wings abroad in the blue ribbon real estate segment, said its managing director Tan Sri Dr Francis Yeoh.

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KUALA LUMPUR: The government has identified and will put out for tender several land parcels located strategically within or near the sought-after Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC).

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced in his keynote address at Invest Malaysia 2010 on March 30 that the tracts are located at Jalan Stonor, Jalan Ampang and Jalan Lidcol.

KUALA LUMPUR: Ho Hup Construction Co Bhd has sought an extension of four more months until Aug 4 to submit its regularisation plan.

The company said it had on Tuesday, March 30 applied to Bursa Malaysia Securities for the further extension to submit the plan under the provision of Practice Note 17 of Bursa Securities’ Listing Requirements

ABU DHABI: Chairman of Abu Dhabi National Hotels (ADNH) H.E. Saif Mohammed Al Hajri has announced the opening of the newest and largest water hotel in Abu Dhabi by the end of this year, Emirates news agency said on March 30.