Archive for August, 2008

Realtors peddle real estate to bike-happy clients (Canoe Money)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — With gas prices high, bicycles flying out of stores and a buyers’ market for houses, a handful of real estate agents around the country are touting the two-wheeled appeal of their listings.
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Real estate channel off air until advertisers sign on (The Post and Courier)

It’s curtains — at least temporarily — for local real estate television. RETV, launched late last year by Comcast Corp. and the Charleston Trident Association of Realtors, is off the air until it can find a new source of revenue. The channel used to broadcast property listings for real estate agents who belong to the […]

Real estate brothers’ fortunes have seen better days (Canada.com)

They once held their heads high as prominent Montreal real estate developers, but now the small empire the Magi brothers built is mired in financial chaos and problems that generated a recent attempt on the life of one of them and the possible extradition of the other.
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Miami Real Estate: Tips For An Easy Homebuying Project (Turks.US)

Miami real estate provides a wide array of residential properties that will fit perfectly with the taste of any homebuyers in and out of the city.
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Lehman nears plan for real estate assets: report (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has settled on a structure that will allow it to offload billions of dollars in real-estate loans from its books, according to the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal. […]

Lending to real estate companies fading fast (The Japan Times)

Banks have become cautious about extending loans to real estate firms, with the latest Bank of Japan statistics showing fresh loans to the industry during the April-June quarter fell from year-before levels for the first time in six quarters. Fresh loans came to about ¥1.8 trillion, down 18.7 percent from a year earlier. Compared with […]

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-31 14:16 Lehman nears plan for real estate assets- WSJ (Interactive Investor)

NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has settled on a structure that will allow it to offload billions of dollars in real-estate loans from its books, according to the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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Real estate firm sues Eastland Mall (The Charlotte Observer)

A Charlotte real estate company filed a lawsuit against Eastland Mall on Thursday, saying the mall owes the company money for bringing a new store to the center. Southern Real Estate Company of Charlotte Inc. wants the court to collect any tenant rental fees the mall receives until the alleged $38,863.20 debt is satisfied. The […]

Real estate: An avalance of paperwork: What you need, what you don’t (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)

In 1980, the Colorado approved real estate contract was a one legal-size page. Buyers may have received a few pages from the lender they worked with and then another few at closing and that was it.
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Real estate transfers (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Recent top-price residential transfers. Data collected by First American Real Estate Solutions.
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