Harry Gross: Is this how to get rich in real estate? (Philadelphia Daily News)
January 21, 2008
Dear Harry: One day last week I saw a TV commercial from a man who said he has a Web site where he will give people information about houses that are available from HUD for a couple of hundred dollars. I went to the site and he was selling videodiscs about how to get rich in real estate starting with less than $1,000. Is this possible? Is it worth the $250 for the discs?
PIK Group Signs Partnership Deal With GIC Real Estate (Nasdaq)
January 21, 2008
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- PIK Group and an affiliate of GIC Real Estate have entered into a partnership agreement to develop a large urban township in the city of Mytischi, located in the Moscow Region to the north-east of the capital.
Real estate developer gets into incubation business (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
An area biotech real estate owner, lessor and developer is adding another word to its job description: incubator.
Real estate overview has positive overtones (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
A real estate market overview just released by CB Richard Ellis Buffalo shows some gains in office and retail but a significant drop in the industrial market.
Well-known real estate broker moves from Cornish to Colliers (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
One of the best-known and well-liked commercial real estate brokers in the valley has left his long-standing perch at the region’s largest brokerage house to join his former competitors at the second-largest.
Commercial real estate briefs (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
O’Connor puts retail database online for market research O’Connor & Associates, real estate market research and consulting firm has launched of RetailLink — an online database of more than 3,000 properties in the Houston metropolitan area. The firm offers a similar database for multifamily projects, ApartmentLink.
Real estate brokerage creates edge with analytical program (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
A new commercial real estate brokerage in Scottsdale is combining elements of science and technology with conventional sales.
Commercial real estate sales activity near a standstill (BizJournals)
January 21, 2008
The gears of Boston’s once red-hot commercial real estate sales market have come to a grinding halt. Just ask Robert E. Griffin Jr. who has taken his show on the road, explaining the topsy-turvy real estate market that has all but paralyzed sales of commercial property in Boston.
2008 may be brutal again for real estate (Detroit News)
January 21, 2008
CLARKSTON — Metro Detroit’s real estate market was socked hard last year, marked by the largest drop in home prices since the Reagan administration, the third-consecutive drop in annual home sales, the lowest number of new home permits since at least 1969, and a massive wave of foreclosures that drove thousands from their homes.
From real estate to - hair? (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
January 21, 2008
After a few years of success in real estate investments, Terry Briggs, Victor Harry and Kevin Reid decided in early 2006 that the market, in Briggs’ words, “was just too good to be true.”
