Nick LaBrocca scored his first goal in nearly a year and Kosuke Kimura added his first of the season to lead the Colorado Rapids to a 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night.

Real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust, which operates office and retail properties, said Wednesday it began a public offering of 15 million common shares priced at $43 a share.

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When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get a stream of random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network _ but pitches on homes for sale?

When one of downtown Los Angeles’ largest landlords said this week that it may seek bankruptcy protection because the company can’t pay its loans, it didn’t bode well for the commercial property market.

Police say an 88-year-old client who wanted his down payment back on a deal shot a South Carolina real estate broker.

The Real IRA, which claimed responsibility for killing two British soldiers over the weekend, has caused more havoc than any other Irish Republican Army splinter group since most IRA members embraced a peace process in Northern Ireland.

Disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is back at work _ now as a commercial real estate investor in Washington.

Sen. Judd Gregg, President Barack Obama’s former nominee for commerce secretary, won taxpayer money for redevelopment of a shuttered Air Force base where he and his brother had invested in commercial property, an Associated Press investigation found.

President Barack Obama’s former nominee to become commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, steered taxpayer money to his home state’s redevelopment of a former Air Force base even as he and his brother engaged in real estate deals there, an Associated Press i