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Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have flopped this fall.
Investors Real Estate Trust said it expects $62.6 million in net proceeds from a follow-on offering that closed Friday.
A bipartisan push is under way in the Senate to spend more money to stop mortgage scams.
Prices for commercial real estate suffered steep declines in July and the volume of transactions remained low, according to a report issued Monday by Moody's Investors Service.
A waterfront Palm Beach, Fla., mansion once owned by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was put on the market Thursday for $8.5 million, while his Manhattan apartment will have an asking price of $9.9 million.
Few real estate markets got hit harder by the recession than the Hamptons, Long Island's summer playground for the rich and famous.
At a time when real estate prices have been in almost perpetual free fall for more than a year, are there really places in the U.S. where home values are going up? Unbelievably, yes.
Times are tough for U.S. commercial property owners, but few have it worse than landlords in Detroit.
Even as the housing market starts to show signs of recovery, fortunes for commercial real estate are looking increasingly grim — and that could spell trouble for the fragile U.S. banking sector.
Nationalized German lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG said Friday that it lost euro750 million ($1.08 billion) in the second quarter as hefty loan loss provisions weighed down its performance.
The residential housing market went into a tailspin over a burst housing bubble and a whole lot of bad mortgages. The commercial real estate market has suffered a different sort of one-two punch.
The good news is there are bargains to be had in the Hamptons real estate market. The bad news as Memorial Day beckons, is you will still need deep pockets, aka millions, to get in the game.
Kostas Kalaitzidis wanted to buy a home when he moved to Phoenix in 2008, but between his modest salary and the expensive market, he couldn’t swing it.
When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get a stream of random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network — but pitches on homes for sale?
Searching for more than advice to navigate the foreclosure process, delinquent homeowners are seeking solace in online support groups.
When one of downtown Los Angeles' largest landlords said this week that it may seek bankruptcy protection because the company can't pay its loans, it didn't bode well for the commercial property market.
An 88-year-old client angrily seeking a down payment back on a deal shot a real estate broker in his office and then sat down in a nearby parking lot until police arrested him, authorities said Wednesday.
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is working as a commercial real estate investor and has bought an office building just a block from the site of the infamous encounter with a high-class prostitute that led to his downfall.
Sen. Judd Gregg, President Barack Obama's former nominee for commerce secretary, won taxpayer money for redevelopment of a shuttered Air Force base where he and his brother had invested in commercial property, an Associated Press investigation found.
Choosing a neighborhood with good schools often is near the top of the list for homebuyers. But what makes a school better than the next goes beyond test scores and student-teacher ratios.
Stricken real estate bank Hypo Real Estate Group secured another euro12 billion ($15.6 billion) in loan guarantees from the German state, bringing its total to euro42 billion as it struggles amid shaky financial markets.
Despite record foreclosures, despite double-digit home price declines, and despite scary job losses, Miami's commercial real estate market has rolled with the punches — until now.
The balance of power between landlords and tenants will shift dramatically in 2009.
Churches flooding already hammered real-estate marketA veil of white dust covers the organ, the pulpit and the pews at the Grand Lutheran Church in Fort Lauderdale, a house of God bought by developers who planned to raze it for townhouses.
Homebuilders hunting for land againThe housing bust left homebuilders with plenty of red ink on their books. But now they are on the hunt again, vying for choice parcels where prices are cheap.
Troy Bohlke, of the Westward Fund, Calls USA the Melting Pot of Foreign InvestorsPhoenix-based Westward Fund, weighs in on the recent Association of Foreign Real Estate Investors survey which found 31 percent of foreign buyers of U.S.
Thursday 11/05/2009. Today it was reported by CNBC, that our service men waiting deployment to foreign service, were open fired on by one Major Nidal Milik Hasan, age 39.
Senate acts to extend unemployment benefits, expand home-buyer tax credit - USATODAY.comWASHINGTON — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of peo …
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Wells Fargo bets on housing recovery.Replacing the inherited " Pick a payment" with interest only loans,Wells Fargo Bank is gambling on the recovery of the U.S. housing market. The program offered by Wells Fargo bank, is intended as a short term Mortgage modification.
Fears of a New Bubble as Cash Pours In Concerns are mounting that efforts by governments and central banks to stoke a recovery will create a nasty side effect: asset bubbles in real-estate, stock and currency markets, especially in Asia.
An update on the first time Homebuyers credit.Although the cerdit may be extended to a broader group of tax payers, as well as a higher income bracket. It will be scrutinized by the I.R.S. for poachers. read on.
Police: N.C. developer kills family, selfNorth Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their home.
Manufacturing, pending home sales fuel recovery hopes.according to the government report, manufacturing, as well as new home and existing home sales have nudged the U.S. economy towards a sustainable recovery.
Construction spending up in SeptemberConstruction spending in September posted a better-than-expected performance, powered by the largest jump in housing construction in more than six years.
Pending home sales reach 3-year highPending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose in September to their highest level in nearly three years ahead of the expiration of a popular tax credit for first-time buyers.
Kirkwood as alternative energy lab: Ski area joins fight against global warming Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry. And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths – and expense – to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows.
First -time home buyers tax credit extension gets nod from Obama administrationAn extension of the first-time home buyers tax credit now seems all but certain, as the democratic proposal is given the nod by the Obama administration.
Florida Consumers Should Be Aware of Real Estate FraudOver half a dozen real estate executives have been involved and charged with mortgage fraud in Florida.
Home sales rise 9.4 percent in SeptemberWASHINGTON -- Racing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the largest amount in more than 26 years.
What is the " Truth" when it comes to Government economic reports?
Gangs flee N.Va.for havens in Md., D.C., report says | Washington ExaminerThis article speaks for itself. All of this can be corrected where we all can live in peace. It really doesn't have to be like this......
Senators agree to extend homebuyer tax creditSenators have agreed to extend a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers and to offer a reduced credit to some repeat buyers.
New home sales take surprise tumbleSales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time owners started to wane.
Senate Dems reach deal on extending homebuyer credit:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the Senate have reached an agreement to extend the soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said on Tuesday.
Detroit 'ice house' to spotlight foreclosure crisisA photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
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