Business news for Mon, 31 Dec 2007 & with word property. 6 news.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Commerce Bancorp Inc. completed the sale of its insurance brokerage business, Commerce Insurance Services, to a group led by Commerce Insurance Services' Chairman George E. Norcross and President Michael Tiagwad, Commerce Bancorp said Monday. The sale includes the commercial property and casualty, employee benefits, and various specialty insurance lines of Commerce Insurance Services. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Rogue loggers stealing from private property have traditionally had little to fear from law enforcement. But as timber values rise, so have the stakes for landowners - and the attitude of law enforcement is adjusting accordingly.

A record R19.24bn of residential property has been sold by Western Cape agents in the first 11 months of this year, reports show.

The market, long ignored, could be on the way up, experts say, and not just in the capital. Property buyers have for several years been pouring money into previously little-known and little-visited European states, such as Montenegro and Lithuania. Yet there is one, much more prominent country that they rarely consider -- Germany.

Rogue loggers prey on private property; owners want tougher law enforcement The crime scene -- a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps -- makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated.

A Manhattan investor has terminated its contract to buy the former William Boyd Printing Co. plant in downtown Albany, the third time a proposed sale of the property has evaporated.