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Moody’s: Commercial real estate prices rise

Commercial real estate prices increased in September, according to Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices, Moody’s Investors Service said Wednesday.
The index rose 2.5 percent from August, but was down 7.9 percent from the year-ago level.
The CPPI now stands 9.4 percent below its peak in October 2007.
The index is based on repeat sales of the same properties [...]

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Real Estate Market Slumps, Showhomes Soars

The housing market is at an all-time low. Consumer confidence has plumetted. Sales are down in almost every industry and one company after another is laying off employees. Is any business immune to the downturn [...]

Realtors Say Foreigners Hold Key to Real Estate Revival

American real estate agents say there’s a surefire way to help the country’s plummeting real estate market: Let foreigners retire here after they buy.
Miami agent Tony Macaluso is leading the charge to create a special new “Silver Card visa” that would ease restrictions on older immigrants — but the National Association of Realtors, Congress [...]

Leading Real Estate Company Announces Over $1 Billion in New Developments

Historic Real Estate Inc. Gets Aggressive Despite National Slowdown in Real Estate Development
Historic Real Estate Inc. is a leading real estate and economic development company based in Houston, Texas. Despite the severe national downturn in real estate development, causing many large-scale projects to halt or slow operations, Historic Real Estate is forging ahead with a [...]

Investment Regimes for Indian Real Estate Sector Explored

Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3beb0e/the_meandering_pat) has announced the addition of the “THE MEANDERING PATH: Investment Regime for Indian Real Estate Sector” report to their offering.
The pull factors embedded in the booming economy of India seem to offer great succour to the global investor scathed by the economies of the western world especially the sub-prime crisis [...]

Government Auctions For Tax Lien and Tax Deed Properties - Houses For Under $2K?

It was one of those late nights where the TV is teaching you how to make a million dollars just by parting with four payments, no make that three low payments if you acted now (that’s why you don’t keep a phone near your bed). Then the most interesting infomercial came on covering an area [...]

Real estate roundup

Ford Graphics leased 14,000 square feet of office and warehouse space at 1431 N.W. 17th Ave., Portland. Todd Collins of Macadam Forbes represented Ford Graphics;
Brad Carnese and Kevin Kriesien of Cushman & Wakefield of Oregon represented the lessor, NATI LLC.
Los Angeles-based Ford Graphics provides graphic services to the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Portland serves [...]

ULI ranks Seattle top among real estate markets

The Urban Land Institute named Seattle its top U.S. real estate market to watch next year, in its Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2009 report released Oct. 21.
The report is based on the insights and predictions of real estate experts nationwide. According to the report, “Seattle boasts its ‘corporate giants,’ but the market braces for [...]

Real estate investment in Texas is down, but not out

While Texas has fared better than most states, it has not escaped the investment slowdown that has gripped commercial real estate markets throughout the country.
According to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as of the end of August 2008, annualized sales for commercial properties in Texas stood at $14 billion — [...]

Texas Waterfront Condominiums on Lake Travis to Sell at Real Estate Auction

Texas waterfront condominiums on The Island of Lake Travis will sell 12 condominiums at absolute auction, to the highest bidders from a pool of 36 condominiums, on Saturday, November 1st at 1 p.m. J.P. King Auction Company, the nation’s leading real estate auction marketing firm specializing in high-value properties, is managing the sale.
“The condominiums are [...]