Bloomberg In a parking lot in midtown Toronto, a portable office advertising homes for Urbancorp sits empty, a stark symbol of what can go wrong for even one of Canada’s largest property developers in the city’s feverish real estate market. The sales center, fronted by weed-covered planters and dotted with litter, was where Urbancorp marketed 41 townhouses. The project, …

  Bloomberg Norway’s $870 billion sovereign-wealth fund said the value of its first real estate investments, stakes in London’s Regent Street and a cluster of offices, shops and apartments nearby, more than doubled in value since they were purchased in 2011 and 2013. The fund’s 25 percent holding in the Crown Estate partnership, which owns parts of the luxury shopping …

  Bloomberg The Kingdom od Saudi Arabia seeks to establish itself as a trade hub connecting Europe, Africa and Asia. The causeway that is planned to link Saudi Arabia with Egypt will be a key component of future trade exchanges between the kingdom and Africa. In the Vision 2030 document that was released on April 25, Riyadh said it plans …