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The Informatioin Needed For Hard Money Lenders And The Things They …

June 3, 2011

Property investors sometimes get hold of hard money loans to buy industrial real estate or investment houses. With doing this they're now able to purchase a property at low costs, remodel to a good standard and then sell them on for a … Read More: The Informatioin Needed For Hard Money Lenders And The Things They …

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Finra Sues David Lerner Firm

June 1, 2011

The financial industry’s regulating body has charged David Lerner Associates with misleading investors and marketing unsuitable products to them.

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A New Dawn For Sunnyvale

June 1, 2011

Lenders to Sunnyvale, Calif.’s Town Center retail project are set to sell the project to investors led by Hines Interests and Starwood Capital Group.

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German Breweries Have a Second Round

May 24, 2011

Germany is famous for its beer, but its breweries are becoming an attraction to real-estate investors in their own right.

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Red Roof Inn Still a Deal

May 10, 2011

Nearly two years after a group of investors ran into trouble on its 2007 purchase of Red Roof Inn chain, opportunistic investors are scooping up the no-frills hotels at big discounts.

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Property Stocks May Gain From ECB Rate Rise

April 5, 2011

Property owners could see a short-term bump, as investors at times of rising inflation tend to turn to tangible assets such as real estate for a safe haven.

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REITs Make About-Face

March 29, 2011

The blockbuster rally in real-estate stocks is starting to sputter as investors begin to fret about global events such as unrest in the Arab world and the economic fallout from Japan.

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Muni Woes Hinder Projects

March 25, 2011

The troubled municipal-bond market could force the developer of a skyscraper at the World Trade Center to pay higher interest rates to investors in order to avoid a potential construction shutdown.

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Worries Rise About Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

March 22, 2011

Some investors are concerned by what they see as a lack of diversity in the bonds as well as an increase in loan-to-value ratios.

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Germany’s Commercial-Property Cemetery

March 16, 2011

Germany might be Europe’s economic miracle. But for commercial-property investors, the market has been more of a graveyard.

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Investors Get M&A-Hungry

March 16, 2011

Investors who own commercial real-estate stocks are getting mergers-and-acquisitions fever as some of the nation’s largest property landlords pay big bucks to take over rivals.

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Property Battle for Gagfah

March 9, 2011

Germany may be one of the hottest property-investment markets in Europe right now, but a political backlash against private-equity investors who bought German residential housing companies is spreading.

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St. Joe Looks East for Salvation

March 8, 2011

The new board of St. Joe is courting investors in Asia, hoping to remake northwest Florida as a tech-oriented aerospace region.

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Commercial Property Shows Signs of Life

March 7, 2011

The European property market is finally emerging from its recessionary deep-freeze, but there are still plenty of icy patches where investors can slip.

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Wells REIT Bids High on Washington Office

March 1, 2011

Wells Real Estate Investment Trust II, an untraded REIT, has agreed to pay approximately $615 million for a Washington, D.C., office complex in the latest sign investors are willing to pay peak-era prices for the most sought-after commercial property.

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U.K. Investors Rediscover Rentals

February 23, 2011

As U.K. homeowners find it harder to get a mortgage, rents are rising, and some big investors are doing less buying and selling of properties and turning more to the steady income that rentals offer.

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Tentative Pact for U.S. Steel Tower

February 16, 2011

A group of New York investors has agreed to buy U.S. Steel Tower in a deal valued at about $250 million

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Yuan Policy Move May Boost China&rsquos Stocks, CICC, SocGen Say

February 16, 2011

By Bloomberg News June 20 (Bloomberg) — China’s pledge to make the yuan more flexible may boost shares denominated in the currency when markets open tomorrow, China International Capital Corp. and Societe Generale SA said. “If it leads to appreciation for the yuan, it’s good news for the market,” Hao Hong , global equity strategist for CICC in Beijing, said in a report today

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Greek Pension `Time Bomb’ May Be Difficult to Defuse for Unwed Daughters

February 16, 2011

By Maria Petrakis June 18 (Bloomberg) — Sophia Constantinidou works as a teacher in a private school in Athens. She also has a more lucrative job: remaining unmarried

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Dubai Stocks Gain Most in 10 Weeks as Mideast Shares Rally on Europe, Oil

February 16, 2011

By Zahra Hankir June 20 (Bloomberg) — Dubai’s benchmark stock index rose the most in 10 weeks and Egyptian shares gained, leading a rally in Middle East markets on growing confidence that Europe will contain its debt crisis.

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