Now someone has to step up and buy these properties.

FORBES: Real Estate

Inventories could rise, putting more pressure on prices, if the banks and other lenders step up their efforts to sell their properties.

WSJ: Stunned Home Buyers Find the Bidding Wars Are Back

Fine thinks there's a chance that privately held MediaNews Group of Denver, one of the losing suitors for Knight Ridder, or even some of the unions operating at the papers could step up and buy some or all of those properties.

FORBES: Ink-Stained Wretches

But finding novel properties at the nanoscale is only the first step.

ECONOMIST: Small wonders

With more properties in Asia springing up, competition has also increased among domestic brands, forcing hotels to step up their game.

BBC: Asia��s international hotel boom