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Real-estate agents to buyers: Can we talk?

Real-estate agents are commonly thought of as salespeople but what they’re really morphing into are housing consultants.
Consider the morass of ever-changing details and acronyms that most people — agents and consumers — were only vaguely aware of a few years ago that now have taken center stage. There’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, FHA, short [...]

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The Bigger Houses Are, the Harder Prices Fall

Like cars in Detroit or chili in Texas, homes in Greenwich play various roles. Not just a dwelling, not just a way to keep score, houses — particularly the Versailles-like backcountry mansions in either their traditional or neo-monstrosity incarnations — are like an art form: critiqued, analyzed, psychoanalyzed, the way people in Manhattan used to [...]

Tappe White Real Estate Services | Realtor profile

Tappe White Real Estate Services welcomes Realtor June Johnson.
Johnson began her real estate career at a local, large and reputable brokerage. While there, she achieved success as a multimillion-dollar producer and earned recognition for her outstanding sales performance.
So why did Johnson change brokerages after already enjoying such professional success?
“I chose Tappe White because of their [...]

Target rejects Pershing’s proposals on real estate structure

Target Corp. said late Friday that it won’t pursue ideas proposed by Pershing Square, a hedge-fund firm run by activist investor Bill Ackman, regarding its real estate portfolio. Ackman had proposed that Target spin off the land it owns into a real estate investment trust in a bid to boost the company’s value. But [...]

Amlak, Tamweel to merge into real estate bank - WAM

Two of Dubai’s biggest property finance companies, Amlak AMLK.DU and Tamweel TAML.DU, got the government green light to merge into a single bank in a move to build confidence as the emirate’s property woes mount.
The merger of the Islamic-compliant lenders will take place under government supervision to ensure fair valuation and to protect shareholders, state [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]