Archive for May, 2008

Federal probe scrutinizing judges’ real estate dealings (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Federal investigators are examining real estate transactions on Florida’s Gulf Coast involving two Allegheny County judges and a former Monroeville high school tennis champion who is accused by one of the judges of forging documents.
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Major Players in Real Estate Title Industry Hit by Suits (Law.com)

Four major real estate title and escrow companies face class actions filed for a variety of business practices, including allegedly charging customers for services performed by other companies. The suits also allege that two of the companies are earning interest from pooling clients’ funds and steering customers to the companies’ own higher-cost subsidiaries for unnecessary […]

Rockford real-estate agent sentenced in loan scheme (Rockford Register Star)

Rockford real-estate agent Raymond Talan was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison without parole Thursday on a count of wire fraud as part of a mortgage-scam investigation.
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Top Court overturns real estate fee ruling (Canada.com)

The Supreme Court of Canada has clamped down on a Quebec real estate firm that charged its customers an annual “membership fee” regardless of whether the company sold their homes.
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Noon Rotary Club hears the state of real estate (Redlands Daily Facts)

REDLANDS - Local real estate agent Shirley Harry spoke about the Redlands real estate market Thursday at the Rotary Club of Redlands.
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Maximizing The Power Of Your Real Estate Blog (Turks.US)

Blogging is very powerful tool to expand your real estate business in the World Wide Web. It is quite simple to create real estate blog and subscribing to a service doesn’t require any payment on your end.
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Homex Gains as Morgan Stanley Names It a Top Real Estate Stock (Bloomberg.com)

May 30 (Bloomberg) — Desarrolladora Homex SAB , Mexico’s largest homebuilder, climbed to a record after Morgan Stanley named it one of the top real estate stocks and said investors should buy the shares as mortgage lending grows in the nation.
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Grandbridge Real Estate Capital gets boost from HUD (BizJournals)

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has received approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to operate as a “Multifamily Accelerated Processing” lender for multifamily and health-care programs. (BBT)
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Treasurer: Real estate tax bills mailed today in Adams County (Quincy Herald-Whig)

Adams County Treasurer Jean Reddington says real estate tax bills were mailed today will start appearing soon in local mailboxes. The first installment will be due July 3. The second will be due Sept. 3.
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GE Real Estate Joins BNP Paribas to Grow $1.5B French Hotel Fund (Commercial Property News)

GE Real Estate Europe has jumped aboard the Capital France Hotel fund, joining BNP Paribas Assurance as a founding limited partner.
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