Homester.com Web News Archive

Real Estate Weekly -- April 13 (Market Watch) - Possibly the biggest real-estate news of the week came from the National Association of Realtors -- and it wasn't good. The trade group reported that U.S. home prices will likely fall 0.7% this year, the first nationwide drop in at least 38 years.

REAL ESTATE AGENCIES (St. Petersburg Times) - Advecs Rosstro Petrograd Agency (show on map) Member of Russian Realtors' Guild. Member of Realtors' Association of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. 14 years on real estate market, more than 8 years on leasing market.

Dive in Long Island Luxury Real Estate Prices (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Barry Ritholtz submits: Let's look at a few previous Real Estate discussions, and then go to the latest news. Last August, we discussed why big housing sales drops do not produce big price drops - at least not right away in the official data.

Supervisors may trim one cent from proposed real estate tax (The News & Advance) - A penny. That’s how much Bedford County supervisors are expected to trim from an earlier proposed real estate tax rate when they make a formal vote on Monday.

Realize Big Returns with Real Estate (El Dorado Times) - (ARA) - It's a buyer's market, which is great news for real estate investors. There are profits to be made just about everywhere you turn these days.

Miami Real Estate agent ends hunger strike on behalf of Haitians (7 News Miami) - MIAMI -- An Army veteran and Miami real estate agent has ended a two-week hunger strike to protest the detention of 101 Haitian migrants.

Miami Real Estate agent ends hunger strike on behalf of Haitians (The Daily Comet) - An Army veteran and real estate agent ended a two-week hunger strike to protest the detention of 101 Haitian migrants, saying he was satisfied that he raised awareness about their plight, a friend said.

RM1 Bln To Develop Real Estate For Bumis (Bernama) - KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 (Bernama) -- The Bumiputera Real Estate Trust Foundation has been allocated RM1 billion to develop commercial real estate for sale or lease to Bumiputera traders this year.

Foreign fund limit raised in Indiabulls Real Estate (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - MUMBAI, April 19 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday allowed foreign funds to buy shares and debentures worth up to 100 percent of capital in Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd. .

Real Estate Headlines (The Prague Post) - SALE BA-CA Real Invest, an Austrian investment fund, sold a portfolio of seven office properties in Prague and Warsaw. The portfolio, held in a closed-end fund structure, was sold for 198 million euros ($260 million/5.5 billion Kc) to Pramerica Real Estate Investors, a global investment fund.