Real estate firm to buy IPL's Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chronicle Holdings, who paid $ 107 million for the franchise in 2008, informed the stock exchanges on Friday of their choice to sell the team to Kamla Landmarc, a Mumbai-based real estate company. Last month, the owners had invited bids for the …
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Here's a Way to Cut Business Taxes: Tech Firms Become Real Estate Trusts
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI. Companies in technology and related fields are testing a way to avoid paying taxes: persuading the government that their real business is real estate. American Tower Corp., which operates cellphone towers, will save more than …
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Second mortgages making a rebound
Though the jump was relatively small — about three-tenths of a percent — analysts say any increase in the amount of second mortgages is a bellwether event, indicating that major lenders are showing growing confidence that the real-estate market has …
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