RISMEDIA, June 4, 2009-In your marketplace, what’s your biggest challenge? For Ari Harkov, vice president and associate broker of Halstead Property, LLC, it’s bringing buyers and sellers together and reaching a meeting of the minds.

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Allianz SE , Germany’s biggest insurer, expects to find bargains in U.S.

Rising losses on commercial real estate loans will continue to hurt U.S. banks in coming months and pose the biggest challenge for many financial institutions and their overseers, regulators said Wednesday.

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — U.S. bank regulators, saying losses on souring commercial real-estate loans pose the biggest risk to lenders, will issue guidelines to help the institutions modify the agreements.

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Losses from commercial real-estate lending pose the biggest threat to U.S. banks as the loans deteriorate, federal bank regulators said.

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RISMEDIA, June 3, 2009-The complexities of today’s marketplace have challenged real estate agents to not only maintain their everyday responsibilities and relationships with clients, but also stay up-to-date with the changes in the marketplace. For some agents, this has become the perfect time to tap cost-effective technologies and streamline once-timely routines.