Homester.com Web News Archive

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

Selling real estate calls for math and people skills (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Michael Schrepfer, brand new real estate agent for Windermere, gave up a good job for odd hours, intense competition and no guarantee of a paycheck.

American Real Estate Declares Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Diversified holding company American Real Estate Partners L.P. Friday said the board of directors of its general partner, American Property Investors Inc., declared a quarterly cash distribution of 10 cents per unit.

City real estate values slide (Manassas Journal Messenger) - The boom is over. Manassas sent out real estate assessments Friday that reflect an overall drop of 5.3 percent in residential property assessments and could mean a 3 percent decrease in real estate tax bills.

HUD Rejects $1.3B NYC Real Estate Deal (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The nation's top housing official said Friday that he blocked a $1.3 billion real estate deal -- one of the richest in New York City history -- out of concerns over the sky-high price and legal issues with the would-be landlord.

Real Estate (The Chapel Hill News) - David Hartzell greets colleagues and students at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Real Estate Annual Conference held at the Carolina Club. Hartzell has been appointed the Steven D. Bell and Leonard W. Wood Distinguished Professor in real estate.

Scotland Yard CSI Tries His Hand At Oklahoma Real Estate (KOTV 6 Tulsa) - The chief of Scotland Yard's crime scene investigation and drug unit traded in service to her majesty to move to Oklahoma. News on 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright reports he gave up supervising 1,500 CSIs and began a career in real estate.

Delek Real Estate Buys U.K.'s RoadChef for 375 Million Pounds (Bloomberg.com) - March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Delek Real Estate Co. Ltd., the property arm of an Israeli holding company, bought U.K. highway service station operator RoadChef for about 375 million pounds ($733 million), including debt.

Real estate seminars for buyers (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Everything you need to know about purchasing a home. 10 a.m. today and next Sat.; 7 p.m. Thu. and next Thu Free. Buyers Real Estate Group. Call for location. 952-797-0090. Upsizing, downsizing or buying for the first time. Basic mortgage financing and what the real estate transaction is all about. 7 p.m. Tue. Free. Beth Iverson, Re/Max Results, and Bob Strandell, Bell Mortgage. 2605 Campus Dr., ...

State taps real-estate listings to probe complaints (Denver Post) - The Colorado Division of Real Estate is investigating about 500 complaints involving home sales, its director said Thursday.