During the Vietnam War, U.S. prisoners of war used to refer sarcastically to the infamous Ho Loa prison as the “Hanoi Hilton.” Today, there is a real Hilton in Hanoi — the 269-room Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel — and...
Global real estate investment by Arab investors will nearly double this year, to $22 billion, say analysts with commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle. Arab investment in the U.S., however, may lag...
In spite of the major Olympic-related protests outside French retailer Carrefour's hypermarkets this April, China retail experts say they don't expect any long-term damage to the commercial sector...
It's easy to understand why Interstate Hotels and Resorts and other Western developers see a subcontinent-sized opportunity in India. Not many countries have 84,000 hotel rooms for 1.1 billion people, and 9% annual...
Until recently, Istanbul occupied almost no space in the minds of most Western real estate investors. Turkey's largest city was one of those places that seem to exist mostly to serve as scenery in James Bond movies...
Great real estate returns were probably not what Nikita Khrushchev, the 1960s-era Soviet leader, had in mind when he predicted that his country would eventually bury the West. But as far as shopping centers go, Moscow...
Like people coping with a harsh winter, U.S. real estate stock investors may be tempted to think the time is right to move their money to a balmier climate. Certainly, in 2007 if you'd sold at home and bought in Asia...
Visitors to the Olympics in Beijing this August may be surprised to find that China is rapidly becoming a modern country — a place where business people are on the road all the time, families get in the car and go to...
Last year, says Gerard Lyons, the London-based chief economist of Standard Chartered Bank, many of his conversations with bankers and investors ended up centered on China. This year, there is a new obsession on the...
It's easy to see the decline of the dollar as an event far removed from day-to-day deal making. Maybe the champagne for the closing is a bit more expensive now, but otherwise what does it really matter...
