Oman International Trade & Exhibitions, leading organizer of exhibitions, conferences and events today announced its 3rd property and real estate exhibition, the International Property Exhibition (IPE) from the 15th to 17th April, 2008. Scheduled to be held at the Oman International Exhibition Centre, this three day event will showcase a full spectrum of services in [...]

IFCOT, the International Forum on Chinese Outbound Tourism, will co-partner with COTTM for a consecutive year to run their annual forum alongside the outbound travel and tourism show of China.
COTTM, China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market, is the only business-to-business exhibition in China designated to service the fast-growing Chinese outbound travel and tourism market. Taking [...]

The Gayana Eco Resort on Pulau Gaya will be the first resort in Sabah to be affiliated with Small Luxury Hotels, a worldwide group of hotels offering exclusive holiday experiences.
Situated in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, its 44 water chalets lie in Malohom Bay.
The resort offers a seafood restaurant, dive centre, Marine Ecology Research [...]

Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, announced today that Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, La. has selected Agilysys to provide a wide range of software solutions for the 531-room property, which recently completed an expansion that added an eight-story atrium and more than 200 guest rooms.
Paragon Casino Resort [...]

Real estate entrepreneur Jeanne Rizzotto has a penchant for unusual projects, and creating the Of Course RV Resort LLC (http://www.ofcourservresort.com), the first of many motor coach resorts in the nation to include a designer golf course, is her most unusual endeavor to date. Located just north of the historic mountain town of Red Lodge and [...]

A developer who wants to build an office and condo complex within the Middlesex Fells Reservation is taking an unusual bypass around a stubborn bottleneck in the environmental review process: The Gutierrez Co. is saying it reduced the project so much to satisfy public concerns that it no longer needs state permits to build it.
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After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February. But the median home price tumbled by the largest amount on record.
The National Association of Realtors said that sales of existing homes rose by 2.9 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.03 million units. [...]

Miami has a new vice: bottom-fishing for condo bargains.
Some are searching for investment properties, confident home prices will eventually rebound. In hard-hit Miami-Dade County, condos originally costing as much as $1.4 million at the peak of the market now sell in some cases for $840,000, a 40 percent drop. Farther north, a coming auction at [...]

Two years ago, Angie Cifarelli of New Jersey signed a pre-construction contract to buy a condo at the Residences at Midtown in Palm Beach Gardens.
Purchase price in the contract: $404,500.
Last month’s appraised value of the newly completed condo: $200,000.
A property worth less than half its value in 2006 is all you need to know about [...]

The Plaza Hotel has reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation, bringing landmark luxury back to Manhattan.
“They say this place is the world’s most famous hotel,” said doorman Freddy Davila, who worked for the hotel for 15 years before it closed in 2005. As he welcomed hundreds of visitors up the red-carpeted steps and through [...]

An international hotel giant plans to open a $100 million, 290-room hotel in Auckland’s CBD by the middle of 2010.
Paul Richardson, vice-president of Accor for New Zealand and Fiji, said yesterday a new five-star Pullman hotel would be built near the city’s waterfront.
The hotel will be aimed at the corporate and meetings market and is [...]

Mipim 2008, to be held from 11 to 14 March in Cannes, is turning the spotlight on the challenges of sustainable development in the property sector. In addition to the unique environmental features of projects showcased in the exhibition area, there will be a series of conferences devoted to the topic on “green” day (Wednesday, [...]