This week in the Retail Roundup, CoStar reports on expansions or new concepts at Casual Male, Coach, Subway and Chick-fil-A; closings, cutbacks, bankruptcy, default, receivership or foreclosure news at Disney Store, Movie Gallery, Car Dealerships, Walking…

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CoStar’s Retail News Roundup: Feb. 7-13, 2010

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Most Japanese stocks fell after the euro weakened versus the yen to a one-year low, while real- estate shares advanced after Nomura Holdings Inc

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Most Japan Stocks Fall on Weaker Euro; Real-Estate Shares Rise (Bloomberg)

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen LLP is relocating its Washington, D.C. office, leasing 102,000 square feet at Lafayette Tower. The international law firm signed a 16-year deal, slated to commence in about a year

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Global Law Firm Signs 102,000-SF Lease in Washington, D.C.

Ballwin, Mo., – Kevin Cottrell, chief economist for Kelsey Cottrell Realty Group, presents, “The Real Real Estate Market for 2010 in St. Louis,” for St. Louis Realtors February 11, from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m., at the Lodge of Des Peres located at 1050 Des Peres Road, Des Peres, Mo., 63131.

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Kevin Cottrell, chief economist for Kelsey Cottrell Realty Group, Presents The Real Real Estate Market for 2010 in St … (dBusinessNews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s real estate businesses were instrumental in persuading political leaders to move Sept. 11-related trials somewhere else.

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Real estate businesses helped move Sept. 11 trials (The Kentucky Post)

NEW YORK CITY — Real estate businesses were instrumental in persuading political leaders to move Sept.

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Real estate businesses helped move Sept. 11 trials (WRGB Albany)

BEL AIR—On January 29, a former state-licensed real estate appraiser was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $46 million in restitution for her role in a massive mortgage fraud scheme that caused tens of millions of dollars in losses to federally insured banks, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Canyon News – Real Estate Appraiser Receives Three Years for Mortgage Fraud (Canyon News)

Home affordability has improved in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market and that has attracted substantial numbers of bargain hunters. However, affordability is only one of the factors that should shape a buyer’s priorities

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RE/MAX Advises That Value Retention, Not Just Affordability, Should Be Buyers’ Priority In Chicago Real Estate Market (PRWeb)

Home affordability has improved in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market and that has attracted substantial numbers of bargain hunters.

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RE/MAX Advises That Value Retention, Not Just Affordability, Should Be Buyers’ Priority In Chicago Real Estate Market (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Despite one of the most volatile decades for home prices and sales in Marin’s history, the real estate market in some places today looks a whole lot like it did 10 years ago.

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Marin real estate: A decade under the influence (Marin Independent Journal)