Archive for August, 2008

Real-estate agents give 2-wheel tours (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

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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Bulgaria’s real estate boom stumbles as demand slumps (TODAYonline)

File photo shows a gardener working on a property own by a Britton in the village of Gostilitsa. Bulgaria’s real estate boom is turning to bust as its key British and Irish property buyers are now discouraged by financial difficulties at home and the ugly concrete views outside their windows.
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Peddling real estate: Realtors target bike-happy clients (Provo Daily Herald)

Whitney Malkin 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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Letters: Real estate market here is still vibrant (Park Rapids Enterprise)

Please accept my appreciation for the recent coverage on the increased foreclosures happening right here at home. So often, we are inundated with dismal information about the economy and real estate market on the national level and are left wondering what that means for rural Minnesota and Hubbard County.
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Area real estate transactions (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)

Published: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:12 p.m. The following real estate transactions occurred in Spartanburg County from July 28-31, 2008.
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Real estate agents take a new tack to sales: bicycling (Austin American-Statesman)

PORTLAND, Ore. — With gas prices high, bicycles flying out of stores and a buyers’ market for houses, some real estate agents around the country are touting the two-wheeled appeal of their listings.
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Holding our own: Real estate prices rise steadily (Morristown Citizen Tribune)

A stark contrast exists between the residential real estate market in Morristown, in cities where subprime financing fueled a boom-and-bust cycle and in markets facing total collapse, a recent study suggests.
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Bulgaria’s real estate boom stumbles as demand slumps (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Bulgaria’s real estate boom is turning to bust as its key British and Irish property buyers are now discouraged by financial difficulties at home and the ugly concrete views outside their windows.
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Lehman nears plan for real estate assets: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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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NYC Real Estate Whiz Busted (Commercial Property News)

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has brought down NYC real-estate investor Adam Hochfelder, according to news reports. The DA arrested and charge Hochfelder with allegedly bilking associates and banks out of more than $17 million.
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