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Roanoke's real estate search system gets an upgrade
Roanoke Times
With the software for the existing GIS property search tool no longer supported by its vendor, the city had no choice but to upgrade the system, said Susan Lower, the city's director of real estate valuation. "We looked at the requests [from users] and ...

Real estate is booming in Vegas, but it may be too late
CBS News
(CBS News) SAN FRANCISCO - If you've been waiting to buy a home, you may have waited too long, at least as far as mortgage rates go. The 30-year-fixed rate rose to 4.61 percent this week, the highest since April 2011. Like the weather, the real estate ...

Metro Detroit and Michigan gain real estate agents as home prices continue to ...
MLive.com
DETROIT, MI – A metro Detroit real estate agency told the Detroit News it has hired 14 new agents as home sales continue to rise in southeast Michigan and the state as a whole. Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel in Troy took on the new agents, as the number ...

Re-evaluation leads to real estate career for former New Yorker
Houston Chronicle
Included in his checklist was that he loved to help people with their homes, had thorough knowledge of the real estate industry, enjoyed working with agents and negotiating. When he reviewed his list, he knew his next career would be as a real estate ...

In St. Petersburg, Russia's urban jewel, rising real estate prices threaten ...
Washington Post
ST. PETERSBURG — From a deep second-floor window of a Russian noble's old mansion on the west side of the square, you look straight on at the dark, looming majesty of St. Isaac's Cathedral, stolid under its huge golden domes. Beyond, at a slight angle ...

Luxury Real-Estate Flippers
Wall Street Journal
In Washington, D.C., Beth Hughes, a real-estate agent with DCRE Residential who finds homes for flippers, last summer found a 2,000-square-foot house in Columbia Heights for Jordan Ghrist, president of Level One Development LLC. He bought the ...

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New York Times (blog)
Mom and Dad, Let's Talk Real Estate
New York Times (blog)
In this city of 350,000-plus co-op apartments and an aging population, it's a quintessential New York story. A couple has owned an apartment for decades. Long after the children departed the nest, the parents have stayed, rattling around in quarters ...

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Philly.com
Real estate havoc on a Main Line street
Philly.com
This is one wildlife video that probably won't turn up on Animal Planet any time soon. Police in Lower Merion say a security camera captured footage of two Main Line real estate agents tossing dead mice and snakes onto the yard of their next-door ...

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Lucas Co. real estate tax bills mailed this
Toledo Blade
Real estate tax bills are going out to Lucas County property owners this week, Wade Kapszukiewicz, county treasurer, said Thursday. The taxes are expected to generate $240 million. Mailed payments must be postmarked on or before July 31 to avoid a late ...

Is Talisker losing control of Canyons' real estate?
Salt Lake Tribune
After turning Canyons Resort over to Vail to operate, Talisker apparently has lost some control over developing its real estate holdings around the Park City ski area. That's a concern to Summit County Manager Robert Jasper, who is trying to figure out ...

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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Real Estate Investor Joseph Sitt Bids More Than $2.1 Billion for Empire State ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A New York real-estate investor made a bid on Thursday to buy the Empire State Building for more than $2.1 billion, the third unsolicited offer for the landmark property over the past several days. The most recent offer is from Thor Equities, according ...

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Real Estate Q & A
New York Times
A. Yes, “a corporation can rent a rent-stabilized apartment,” said Adam Leitman Bailey, a Manhattan real estate lawyer. “But the terms of the rental will determine whether or not the apartment is entitled to the automatic renewals that are normal under ...

Daily Beast
Fundrise Crowdsources Real Estate Developments in Washington, D.C.
Daily Beast
“We were buying real estate in H Street North East, which is the Brooklyn of D.C., and financial institutions were saying, 'We're not really sure where that is,'” Ben explains. “That disconnect to me was striking, so I said, I'm going to try to raise ...

Edmonton Journal
AIMCo 'Nervous' About Canadian Real Estate Returns, CEO Says
Bloomberg
AIMCo, as the fund is known, has about C$8 billion worth of real estate assets, including C$2.5 billion in Calgary and Edmonton, de Bever said. Long-term returns from real estate investments are likely to decline to match equities in the “7, 8 or 9 ...
Alberta Pension Fund Frets about Real Estate, Likes EnergyWall Street Journal (blog)

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Use Settlement Money to buy Real Estate?
Fox Business
I think most people have more than enough money invested in real estate with the investment in their personal residence. There is money to be made in investment properties, but the problem is that one can be too highly concentrated in one asset class.
SRE Investing Unveils the 4 Pillars of Los Angeles Real Estate InvestingPR Web (press release)
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Fayetteville agency buys Raleigh real estate company
Triangle Business Journal
The acquisition of CityGate gives ERA Strother Real Estate five offices in the state, including its flagship office in Fayetteville and other offices near Fort Bragg in Cameron, one in Southern Pines and another at the ERA Strother & Wilkinson Real ...

ABC News
In Photos: Celebrity Real Estate
ABC News
In Photos: Celebrity Real Estate. Previous · Next. Liberace Home Listed. The mansion that once belonged to Liberace is listed by a bank for $529,900, cash-only, by a bank, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The home spans 14,939-square-foot and was built in ...

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County commercial real estate firms compete for talent, contracts
The Advocate
The commercial real estate market in Fairfield County is warming up. Lease rates show signs of rebounding in the retail sector, and even with an office-vacancy rate hovering around 20 percent, an improving economy is elevating the hopes of building owners.

Former Dublin Resident Charged In Alleged $10 Million Real Estate Scam
10TV
Zafar indicated that he could buy the real estate and turn a significant profit after selling it to the Pakistan government. Other people could invest in the real estate, and then would share the profits from making such a transaction. Zafar allegedly ...
Former Ohio man charged in $10M real estate fraudMiamiHerald.com

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Houston Chronicle (blog)
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