real estate

The Realities of Real Estate: A picture is worth a thousand words
CapitalGazette.com
Every day, we look at dozens of listings on the multiple list system. Many times, we'll just go right to the pictures; it's the quickest way to determine if the house is something one of our clients might want to see. Buyers do pretty much the same ...

Belleville News Democrat
Real estate: What's your neighbor's home selling for?
Belleville News Democrat
2 Lauralee Drive; from Emmitte J. Prince and Gwendolyn L. Prince; to R. Bryce Rowley and Associates Inc., ET5 Real Estate Holding LLC; $11,000. * 1122 St. Michael Drive; from Shairl Acord; to Jason D. Sinn; $15,000. * 17 Helen Court, 1110 St. Margaret ...

Denver's hot real estate market now seeing quick, 24-hour sales
Denver Post
Just 6,786 single-family homes and condos were listed for sale in February, down 32.7 percent from a year ago and the lowest since 1985, according to real-estate analyst Gary Bauer. Demand has gone up as buyers feel more confident both in the housing ...

Real estate transfers for Sunday, March 31, 2013
La Crosse Tribune
The following are real estate transfers filed in La Crosse County. By law, some transfers are exempt from transfer fees; these properties are listed without prices. CITY OF LA CROSSE. Beverly G. King Estate to Donald J. Panka Revocable Living Trust ...

Filing sheds light on real estate giant Armada Hoffler
The Virginian-Pilot
Ordinarily, when companies file for initial public offerings, they disclose the compensation of their top-paid executives. But real estate giant Armada Hoffler, based in Virginia Beach, didn't do that in its 321-page registration statement last week ...

GenY moving into the real estate market
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
It's a momentous time for an industry still reeling from bad loans, foreclosures and price collapse. Now, builders, developers and agents are gearing up for the onslaught. Just this month, PulteGroup and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate each ...

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Hot Boca real estate market turns up heat on history
Sun-Sentinel
What the owner of 101 Pine Circle calls a hang out for homeless and plans to tear down, local history buffs call priceless history. It's the headquarters of the old Boca Army Airfield, where soldiers were trained to use top-secret radar for WWII. This ...

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Housing market waking up in a new normal for real estate
OregonLive.com
In 2011, for the first time, more homebuyers found the place they would eventually buy online than through any other channel, including real estate agents, according to the National Association of Realtors. As recently as 2004, more buyers found their ...

Brazil High Flying Real Estate Prices Outpace All Countries
Forbes
According to Knight Frank's Global Real Estate Index, released this month, Brazil ranks No. 3 in the world and No. 1 in the Americas for rising home prices. Only ridiculously expensive Hong Kong and Dubai, which are not countries, have seen prices rise ...

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Ruth: Money can buy real estate, but not taste
Tampabay.com
Yaffe's Tara was originally listed for $25 million, but alas not even the silk-stocking denizens of Avila are immune to the vagaries of the real estate market. Two quotes come to mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The rich are different from you and me ...

GenY moving into the real estate market
Reno Gazette-Journal
It's a momentous time for an industry still reeling from bad loans, foreclosures and price collapse. Now, builders, developers and agents are gearing up for the onslaught. Just this month, PulteGroup and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate each ...

Real estate apps can help, overwhelm homebuyers
San Jose Mercury News
Raj Aurora has been searching to buy his first home for the last three months, but hasn't wasted time looking at condos he knows he won't like and hasn't even needed to meet his agent, all thanks to real estate apps that Aurora downloaded on his iPhone 5.

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Report: Flat first quarter for industrial real estate
Nashville Business Journal
It was a flat first quarter for Nashville's industrial real estate market. Absorption was down 68,000 square feet, ending a string of six quarters with positive absorption, according to a new report from the Nashville office of Colliers International ...

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Top 5 Residential Real Estate Firms in the Bay Area
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
The top five Bay Area residential real estate firms held strong to their positions this year, though there were a few small surprises. What San Ramon-based real estate firm dominated our Bay Area list, but came in third on our East Bay list? Which of ...
Top of the List: Real estate auction firmsWichita Business Journal (blog)
Top of the List: Residential Real Estate FirmsCharlotte Business Journal (blog)

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An Income Investor's Guide to Real Estate Investing
Motley Fool
Instead of trying to beat these big-fish investors, how about getting into real estate a different way? REITs, or real estate investment trusts, are a way to invest in real estate minus the headaches that come with being a landlord. Not only do ...

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Location, Location: The Hottest Real Estate Markets On Earth
Forbes
Kate Everett-Allen, one of the lead researchers on the international real estate report, said that stronger conditions across all other world regions are offset by continuing challenges in the main European markets. Only one eurozone nation even made ...

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New York Daily News
Colorado real estate mogul Keith Hartigan cleared of first degree rape charge
New York Daily News
A Colorado real estate mogul was cleared Friday of first degree rape charges stemming from a boozy February night at the Standard Hotel. Prosecutors said they could not proceed with a case against pretty boy broker-to-the-stars Keith Hartigan, who ...
Hotel rape charges dismissed against real estate mogul Keith HartiganNew York Post
Keith Hartigan: Real estate mogul accused of sexually assaulting female ...Daily Mail

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Five Ways Investing in Real Estate Can Save You Money
Huffington Post (blog)
According to Brad Hettich, President and CEO of Commercial Lending X, there are several ways to save money fast, but chief among them is investing in real estate. "You should dip into your savings or take out a loan that you can repay, and always ...

The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland
The American
The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland. By Blake Hurst Friday, March 29, 2013. Filed under: Economic Policy. Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our ...

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Office-As-A-Service RocketSpace Doubles Real Estate To Accomodate Bigger ...
TechCrunch
Startups around the world are desperate for office space in the San Francisco Bay Area, so tomorrow RocketSpace will announce the lease of a new 50,000 sq. ft. office so it can house startups with up to 60 employees instead of capping them at 30.