(Source: My Desert Brad Schmett) – Before you get too excited over the prospect of buying that La Quinta short sale property you found online, pick up the phone and call your real estate agent. He or she needs to [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Simon Packard) – Irish investor Aidan Brooks’s Tribeca Holdings Ltd. paid 13 percent more than the asking price for a shop on London’s Bond Street that generates slightly more income than a U.K. government bond. It beat [...]
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) – Guy Langford, national head of distressed asset and debt services at Deloitte & Touche LLP, talks about the outlook for the commercial real estate market. Langford speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.”
(Source: khaleejtimes) – Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, has advised caution on real estate development in the emirate, while calling for regulation of new projects.
(Source: Forbes) – Since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating, the financial markets have ping ponged hundreds of points per day, dropping to 2008 levels only to inch back up. The July jobs report highlights a national [...]
NEW YORK (Source: MSNBC) — China Real Estate Information Corp.’s second-quarter net income slid 59 percent, burdened by higher expenses and absent a hefty tax refund.
(Source: CVBT) – Buy? Or rent? The numbers come down in favor of buying in three out of four of the nation’s largest cities, according to the real estate information company Trulia Inc. of San Francisco.
NEW YORK (Source: CNNMoney By Les Christie) – Home prices have taken such a beating and demand for rental units has increased so much that it’s now cheaper to buy a two-bedroom home than to rent one in most major [...]
(Source: The Real Deal Online) – The total dollar amount of Manhattan assets classified as distressed has halved since 2008, Crain’s reported, a sign that the market is rebounding at a healthy pace.
(Source: The Times of India) – Socialite Paris Hilton is following in her family’s footsteps as she is heading to the Philippines to launch a property venture.
(Source: The Slate By François Furstenberg) – Ethan Allen was at various times: reckless speculator, captain of the continent’s largest paramilitary force, outlaw with a £100 bounty on his head, American Revolutionary commander, prisoner of war, best-selling author, radical Deist [...]
(Source: The Atlantic) – Dear Treasury Secretary Geithner, First, kudos on your decision to stay on for the rest of your boss’s term. I know Goldman is aching to get you on board, but you’ll have plenty of time to [...]
(Source: Moneyland By Alison Rogers) – The Federal Reserve’s announcement this week that it would keep a key interest rate near zero seemed designed to be a chill pill — a way to calm jittery stock market investors by showing [...]
(Source: NewsMax By Andra Varin) – As the song says, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And that’s why Chinese investors are flocking to New York.
(Source: In Man News) – A husband-and-wife broker team who specialize in short sales and bank-owned properties can continue to operate their business while they appeal a 10-year suspension of their licenses by Washington regulators.
(Source: The Boston Globe by Rona Fischman) – Mike wrote to me with a question that is on the mind of anyone who owns a condo in a building where there is a short sale or foreclosure.
(Source: By GARY M. SINGER Sun Sentinel) – Question: My townhome has lost about 25 percent of its value. I’m barely managing the payments. Similar homes in my complex are renting at less than half of what I am paying [...]
(Source: By ALAN J. HEAVENS The Philadelphia Inquirer) – Financing a home purchase has become extremely difficult since the housing boom turned to bust. Getting an appraisal to match the price for which one’s lender has preapproved a mortgage can [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Source: University of Florida News) — Economic worries and continued acrimony among lawmakers have claimed yet another casualty: The outlook for real estate markets in Florida declined slightly through the second quarter of 2011, according to a new [...]
(Source: New York Times By KIRK SEMPLE) – Chinese banks have poured more than $1 billion into real estate loans in New York City in the past year. Investors from China are snapping up luxury apartments and planning to spend [...]
(Source: By Jim Puzzanghera and Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times) – Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles— With the real estate market continuing to drag down the economy, federal officials are seeking ideas from investors and others about ways to [...]
(Source: Wall Street Journal By Robbie Whelan) – More signs of cracks are showing in the Washington, D.C. market, which has held up in the last year as the nation’s strongest, according to a report released Wednesday.
(Source: UPI) – Short sales will remain strong for the next several years as foreclosure inventories timelines grow even longer, according to the chief operating officer of Equator, a premier software platform for default servicers.
(Source: NBS Los Angeles By Vikki Vargas and Olga Spilewsky) – One out of every two homes sold in July in Orange County is a distress sale, which means it’s either a foreclosure or a short sale.
(Source : CNBC-TV18) – Stay away from the real estate sector, says Vivek Mavani, Vice President & Senior Portfolio Manager, Brics Securities.
(Source: 24/7 Wall Street) – The real estate market is already in the deepest depression in modern U.S. history. If you think it can’t get any worse, think again. In several cities, the real estate market is about to drop [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Hui-yong Yu, Brian Louis and Sarah Mulholland) – The nascent recovery in U.S. commercial real estate may be cut short as Europe’s debt crisis and Standard & Poor’s credit downgrade of Treasuries send borrowing costs to their [...]
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