Archive for September, 2008

Bankers writing commercial real estate loans more carefully (The Wilmington Star-News)

Finding money for a commercial real estate project was getting a lot harder even before the credit crisis came to a head this week, Wilmington area developers, builders and brokers say. Will it get worse’
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Diversity helps S.F. real estate firm survive (San Francisco Chronicle)

Tracy Dearman has plenty of long-term perspective on the current real estate downturn. She runs a small San Francisco brokerage that was started by her grandmother on Haight Street more than 50 years ago. “We have seen many cycles in the real estate market,… […]

American real-estate market hit by sharpest ever annual drop in prices (Independent)

An end to the American housing recession, something that many observers regard as essential to ending the credit crunch, seemed little closer yesterday, with US real estate prices falling by the sharpest annual rate ever in July, though the monthly rate of decline is slowing.
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Failed Deals Replace Real Estate Boom (New York Times)

After seven years of nonstop construction and skyrocketing rents the credit crisis may be bringing New York?s real estate boom to an end.
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Wyatt Realty Company, LLC Proves That Atlanta is in Need of a Proven Boutique Commercial Real Estate Services Firm (wallstreet:online AG)

The Atlanta real estate market does not support a firm with a lack of experience. There are so many
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Virtual tours of real estate helps sell homes (New York Daily News)

When real estate agencies first began offering virtual tours of properties on their Web sites in the mid-1990s, they knew they were onto something big.
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Real estate buyers told to be careful (Sun Star)

BUYERS of real-estate properties are warned to be wary doing transactions because they might be dealing with brokers who do not have licenses to sell issued by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB).
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Fitch Affirms & Withdraws Ratings of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (Centre Daily Times)

Fitch Ratings affirms and simultaneously withdraws the ratings of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust as follows:
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Captain: Real estate sales to fall (Pacific Daily News)

Guam last year saw about $686.8 million in real estate transactions, but ‘the party’s over, at least for now,’ according to real estate expert Nick Captain.
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PRESS RELEASE: Fitch Downgrades Hypo Real Estate Group To A- (Nasdaq)

Fitch Ratings-London/Frankfurt-30 September 2008: Fitch Ratings has today downgraded Hypo Real Estate Holding AG’s (HRE Group) Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘A-’ (A minus) from ‘A’. The Outlook remains Stable.
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