The region’s rental market appears to be benefiting from the nationwide housing slump. With fewer folks moving into a place of their own, demand for rentals is high and landlords are reaping the benefits.
More tough times may be on the horizon for the nation’s housing market. But as the credit crunch deepens and mortgage defaults [...]
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 [...]
Billie Riley was homeless and living by the Guadalupe River last year before scraping up enough money with her boyfriend to move into a $575-per-month room at the Aconda Hotel.
“We came off the streets,” she said. “And it looks like that’s what we’re going back to.”
The building that houses the hotel on Santa Clara [...]
A CONDOMINIUM complex in Lapulapu City is now 85 percent complete and slated for completion next month.
This was announced by Bienvenido de Castro, vice president for external affairs of E. Guanzon Inc. (EGI), the project’s contractor.
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Today represents a milestone for the Toronto International Film Festival, with the official groundbreaking for its long dreamed-of year-round home (known for now as Bell Festival Centre) on a parking lot at the corner of King and John Sts.
More than a thousand guests have been invited to a bubbly celebration at the Fairmont Royal York [...]
SPRINGFIELD — Reversing his predecessor’s policy, new state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is encouraging his aides and other government workers to stay at a Springfield hotel that owes millions of dollars to the state.
The move follows a Sangamon County judge’s decision last week to place the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center into receivership, a [...]
Step through elevator doors and a marble foyer.
Floor-to-ceiling windows looming over downtown Seattle, the Space Needle and Elliott Bay.
It’s late afternoon. Then, a few minutes later, the skyline stands out in the dark of night.
And a few minutes after that, it’s daytime again.
Welcome to ESCALA, where the elevator, skyline and daylight are fake. But the [...]
Some people log on to YouTube.com to enjoy a recap of their favorite sitcoms or to catch an amusing amateur video.
But people might not turn to the popular video Web site as a venue to search for their next home.
A local real estate agent has started uploading virtual tours of his listings last year as [...]
Across Southwest Florida, real estate agents are reporting sales, showing activity and buyer interest that suggests the region could be emerging from its real estate doldrums.
In January, Michael Saunders & Co.’s call center received 3,375 serious inquiries, “which matches almost exactly the call activity at the height of the boom,” said spokesman Tom Heatherman.
In January [...]
When it came to naming Blue, architect Bernard Tschumi’s 16-story, 32-unit pixilated glass condominium on the Lower East Side, it wasn’t obvious at first what to call it.
“We had considered, I believe, the name ‘Dream’ in French — Reve — because it felt like a dream in some respects and the architect is Swiss French, [...]
Downtown Boston’s condominium market staged a year-end rebound, resulting in a modest 3.4 percent decline in condo prices for all of 2006.
The median price for the 3,494 condos sold in 2006 was $449,000, according to Listing Information Network, or Link. Sales fell 9.8 percent for the year, making it the slowest year downtown since 2003.
The [...]
With the condo market apparently showing signs of slowing down, a systematic strategy for reviving activity is having affordable condo mortgage financing available to prospective buyers. An issue for many homeowners is in managing monthly income and expenses, or “cash flow†in general. Income fluctuates every month and unforeseen expenses come up when least anticipated. [...]
