NEW YORK CITY-Former Two World Trade Center tenant Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, signed a lease for immediate occupancy of three floors in a 42nd St. office building.

NEW YORK CITY-A Philadelphia-based reinsurance company releases its potential exposure estimate related to last week's attacks here and in Washington DC.

NEW YORK CITY-Developer Larry Silverstein has answered a question that has dominated the minds of New Yorkers and all Americans: Will the World Trade Center rise again?

NEW YORK CITY-The owner of four major downtown structures evacuated since the World Trade Center attacks ensures investors that tenants have ironclad leases and must continue paying rent while the properties are repaired.

NEW YORK CITY-Last week's tragic events shifted the real estate industry's powerful engines into high gear. Offers of aid for displaced businesses continue to roll in.

NEW YORK CITY-Severe structural damage to Five World Trade Center and a second cave-in at one of the World Trade Center towers forced rescue workers to suspend their efforts for a short period yesterday afternoon.

NEW YORK CITY-Bruce Weissberg, former CEO of RealtyIQ and newly named president of commercial real estate firm D.G. Hart, plans to allow brokers to pursue commission deals that include equity stakes in the properties they close.

NEW YORK CITY-One day after the World Trade Center went from monument to memorial status, a real estate firm is scouting "several million" sf of space on behalf of clients whose offices were destroyed in the terrorist attack.