| Mall Stores Try to Shrink Chastened by the recession, mall-based apparel retailers like Gap and AnnTaylor are poring over their real-estate portfolios, looking for stores they can shrink, in a bid to increase profit. online.wsj.com |
Simon Offers to Recapitalize General Growth Simon Property Group altered its pursuit of bankrupt rival General Growth, offered to match a competing offer to recapitalize General Growth minus a key deal sweetener. online.wsj.com |
Builders less confident in housing market Homebuilders are losing confidence in the housing market now that government incentives that spurred home sales have ended. Business - U.S. Housing Market - Government - Real Estate - United States pheedo.msnbc.msn.com |
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Mortgage applications tumble as rates rise Applications for mortgages to buy homes and to refinance dropped last week as mortgage rates pulled away from historic lows. pheedo.msnbc.msn.com |