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Real Estate News: Blackstone Reaches Pact to Buy Largest Office-Building Owner
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Blackstone Reaches Pact to Buy Largest Office-Building Owner. By Dennis K. Berkman and Jennifer S. Forsyth and Ryan Chittum. From The Wall Street Journal Online. The real-estate arm of private-equity firm Blackstone Group last night reached a $20 billion deal to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust, the nation's largest office-building owner and manager, as Wall Street wrapped up at least $52 billion of deals on one its biggest deal-making days ever. Blackstone will pay $4...
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Real Estate News: Home Builders, Developers See Light at the End of the Tunnel
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Home Builders, Developers See Light at the End of the Tunnel. From The Wall Street Journal Online. Home builders' confidence in the U.S. market improved for a second straight month in November, an industry trade group said Thursday. The housing market index improved to 33 in November from 31 in October, the National Association of Home Builders reported. The index had fallen for eight months in a row to a 15-year low of 30 in September. The report comes one day before the Co...
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What you need to know about Real Estate...: Economists Say the Worst Of Housing Bust Is Over
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What you need to know about Real Estate. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. Economists Say the Worst Of Housing Bust Is Over. The worst of the housing bust is over, economists said by nearly 2-to-1 in the latest WSJ.com economic forecasting survey. But they still predict that the average selling price of a house will fall next year. While 20 economists predicted home prices would rise next year, 24 forecast a decline. Just eight of the economists forecast gains greater than 2.1%, which is their average ...Richa...
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What you need to know about Real Estate...: REITs Are Sitting Pretty in U.K. With Prospect of Takeover Deals
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What you need to know about Real Estate. Thursday, October 26, 2006. REITs Are Sitting Pretty in U.K. With Prospect of Takeover Deals. From The Wall Street Journal Online. LONDON - First it was the booming U.K. commercial-property market. Now the prospect of takeover deals could send the country's property stocks even higher. Buyers acquiring properties through a corporate structure will avoid a 4% tax on property purchases, known in the U.K. as stamp duty. Companies that want to convert to R...There wil...
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What you need to know about Real Estate...: Think Small: Getting Started As a Real-Estate Investor
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What you need to know about Real Estate. Tuesday, January 23, 2007. Think Small: Getting Started As a Real-Estate Investor. Think Small: Getting Started As a Real-Estate Investor. From The Wall Street Journal Online. The real-estate bubble has burst. Get over it. In areas that saw big home-price run-ups in the first half of the decade, prices are stagnant, or worse. New-home inventories are up; new-home builder stocks are down. A kind of real-estate weariness has set in. Who's the cocktail-party boor?
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What you need to know about Real Estate...: For More Homeowners, Threat From Lightning Is a Worry
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What you need to know about Real Estate. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. For More Homeowners, Threat From Lightning Is a Worry. From The Wall Street Journal Online. The cost of homeowners' claims for damage due to lightning strikes is soaring because of the burgeoning number of high-end electronic items and appliances in the average home, insurers say. Homeowner's insurance policies cover damage from electrical storms, less the deductible, but insurers say much of it could be avoided with the proper precauti...
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What you need to know about Real Estate...: Manasquan: A hometown feel
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What you need to know about Real Estate. Thursday, October 26, 2006. Manasquan: A hometown feel. Asbury Park Press 09/14/06. The borough has long been home to people of varying income levels, but that diversity is becoming less apparent as affluent newcomers are knocking down older, smaller homes to make room for much larger ones, Mayor Richard Dunne said. People who could once afford to own property here might now be priced out of town, he said. While many recent home buyers have settled into establishe...
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Real Estate News: Shore home prices rebound
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Shore home prices rebound. By DAVID P. WILLIS. After taking a slight dip in the second quarter of 2006, median home sale prices in the region that includes the Shore area rose 7.3 percent in the third quarter, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. The median means that half the homes in the area sold for more and half for less. Other areas of New Jersey saw increases in the third quarter as well. The median price in an area that includes Bergen and Passai...