Archive for the 'Real Estate Investing' Category

Thursday, October 18th, 2007


Reuters - That decision will cause the lender’s tax-advantage status as a real estate investment trust to be terminated, retroactive Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news

How To Supercharge Your Real Estate Investing Career
PR Inside - ( EMAILWIRE.COM , October 17, 2007 ) Roseville, MI — The REIA of Macomb, known as The Michigan REIA with the “goods” delivers a positive message to all who will listen. As Macomb County’s Exclusive Real Estate Investor’s Association, it is their

Earvin ‘’Magic'’ Johnson and Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund Make First
Forbes - and CEO of Charlotte, NC-based Crosland, today announced that Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund, the nation’s largest real estate I am excited about investing in Nashville, especially in a mixed-use project that will bring quality residential and retail

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007


Forbes - Barbara Corcoran, the founder of The Corcoran Group, New York City’s largest residential real estate agency, owes her rise to a painful event: breaking up with her boyfriend . Back in 1973, he lent her $1,000 to start a real estate agency , and took

Shanghai communists to move forward from social security scandal
CNBC - Disgraced former Shanghai chief Chen Liangyu is set to face trial after being accused of siphoning around 483 mln usd from the city’s social security fund into speculative real estate and road investment projects. Chen is the highest party official

REAL ESTATE INVESTOR SEES DEALS
Las Vegas Review Journal - Michel Maalouf stands by Laguna Palms, a complex where he and his wife own three condos. The couple rents out more than 40 local residential properties they have bought in 16 years. Photo by Sara Tramiel/Review-Journal Michel Maalouf remembers when

Asian currency traders smell an opportunity
International Herald Tribune - These flows are causing Asian assets - from stocks to real estate - to boil over. Limiting foreign capital to more manageable levels requires a reduction in Asian interest rates, something that is not possible any time soon because of inflation. And

Kuwaiti real estate and property professionals earn 10 per cent higher
AME Info - The Dubai Team of Macdonald & Company (from left to right): Matthew Taylor, International Director; Ben Waddilove, International Consultant; George Buck, International Consultant; Dina Hijazi, International Consultant; William Buck, International

McClatchy shares dip ahead of 3Q report, which is seen reflecting
CNBC - August revenue fell 8.4 percent on declining real estate, employment and other ad sales. McClatchy is the third-largest newspaper publisher in the country measured by circulation, after Gannett Co. and Tribune Co. BY THE NUMBERS: Analysts expect

Bargains in mortgage land
BusinessWeek - Cypress Sharpridge Investments, a hedge fund-like investment company disguised as a real estate investment trust. Bear Stearns and Friedman Billings Ramsey are lead underwriters and the trust s symbol will be CYS. Massive market dislocations

Cuba travel ban violator gets probation
Miami Herald - David Margolis, 76, was sentenced to two years of probation Monday in federal court in Miami for falsely telling the government he was traveling to Cuba for religious purposes. Margolis, a Fort Lauderdale real estate magnate, faced up to six months