KUWAIT CITY-The Kuwait Finance House, with total assets of $37 billion, has partnered again with London-based Grosvenor on buying senior and medical properties in the United States.

CHICAGO-The 50-story tower is going up in the River North neighborhood, and should be complete by summer 2013.

INDIANAPOLIS-Warren Buffett is part of a partnership here to turn a crime-ridden area into a new, safe neighborhood with more than 900 new housing units, retail and health centers.

ROME-The company has taken over 20 Metro Cash & Carry stores, a warehouse retailer that only sells to businesses, in a transaction for about half of the company’s Italy holdings.

CHICAGO-Today’s DLA Piper State of the Market Survey release shows the markets took two steps forward in the first half, and possibly more than two steps back starting in the third quarter.

CHICAGO-The Southfield, MI-based firm bought the 14-story building for $10 million in December when it was 30% occupied, and has brought it up to more than 60% full.

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL-The farm equipment manufacturer will build both sites here, one for backhoe loader development and one with Hitachi Construction. to produce excavators.

CHICAGO-The two real estate icons blasted the current administration for the country’s current uncertainty at DLA Piper’s Global Summit today, and said regulations and taxes have to change.