People say you don't know you've hit bottom until you're on the way back up. Coming off last year's slow residential real estate market - the year we'll remember as the bottom - we're poised for improvement in 2012.

2011 was a year of increased commercial real estate activity in Alaska, and 2012 appears likely to continue that improvement.

Real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donald Trump endorsed Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Thursday, in another boost for the former Massachusetts governor.