MSCI enters real–estate investment benchmarking with IPD buy
Oct 31 (Reuters) – Investment analysis and market index company MSCI Inc said it will buy IPD Group Limited for $ 125 million to enter into the real-estate investment benchmarking business. IPD Group Limited is the holding company for the IPD Group, a …
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What buyers need to know about a home inspection
All too often, real estate contracts are entered into late at night when the buyer is both on an emotional high but at the same time emotionally drained. Regardless, but, do not let anyone convince you not to have a home inspection. I have …
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Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. to Host Conference Call Friday November 9 …
TORONTO, Oct. 31, 2012 /CNW/ – Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. (TSX: BRE) today announced that it will host a conference call on Friday November 9, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss its third quarter financial results. To access the call by …
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Washington area real estate agents write book on buying and selling a home
After more than a decade selling homes in the Washington area, Long and Foster real estate agents Hans and Steve Wydler came to realize how small their clients really knew about a system that too often takes advantage of them. Brothers Steve, left …
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Real Estate Rebounds are Strikingly Different in California and Florida
These are frothy numbers by any standard, and reflect in part the declining numbers of foreclosures being sold at giveaway prices in the interior markets of the state, and in part the underlying economic demand for real estate in the coastal cities …
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Real Estate Remodeling On the Rebound: Home Remodels Up to 2005 Levels
The National Association of Home Builders tracks residential real estate remodeling levels across the country, and they are seeing a significant increase in home remodeling projects this year. The group's index measuring additions, alterations …
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Real Estate Transfers – 10/21/12
Sandi Bradley, Jeffrey Lusk, Elizabeth Lusk, Harley Lusk estate, Gilbert Lusk, co-executor, and Michael Frazier, co-executor, to Charles Carr and Allison Carr, in Andover Place subdivision, $ 375,000. Testerman Buckner Hardin Valley LLC to Walter …
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VIDEO: CohnReznick Grows its Presence
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Home Properties sells apartment complex for nearly M
A Rochester, N.Y.-based real estate investment trust fetched nearly $ 16 million for the first of three Greater Baltimore apartment complexes it place up for sale earlier this year. Home Properties Inc. sold the Woodholme Manor Apartments in Baltimore …
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