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 [...]
Apartment rents need to jump sharply or sales prices must plummet further before the market reaches a balance, says Dick Ayres, convener of the Auckland CBD Apartment Investment Group.
He said rents needed to rise before savvy investors could justify some of the prices being demanded by vendors.
Ayres was responding to an article in yesterday’s Business [...]
In the first half of 2007, home and condo sales in Washtenaw County fell nearly 16 percent compared to the same period in 2006 - the largest midyear sales drop in at least seven years, statistics show.
“The inventory of homes is still very large and getting larger, in my opinion,” said Timm Williams, an [...]
If you are a home seller, real estate agent or a
homeowner who cares about how a home looks from the street, “Curb Appeal Idea Book” by Mary Ellen Polson will anticipate your questions and help you show a home at its best.
“You only have one chance to make a first impression” is an overused but [...]
The tenants of a building in Abu Dhabi have sought the help of the Rent Disputes Settlement Committee in Abu Dhabi to prevent the landlady from evicting them with the alleged intention of renting out the apartments to others at a higher price.
Hazem Shouqi, a representative of the tenants, said, “We were shocked when the [...]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has sued two real-estate brokerages, accusing them of receiving kickbacks for steering home sellers to a provider of hazard reports.
The suit, filed on Wednesday in the central district of California, seeks to recover “illegitimate profits” generated by “sham” joint ventures formerly operated by Realogy Corp., Prudential California [...]
The city is unlikely to replace Florida or Arizona as the next retirement haven, but local real estate experts are tracking an uptick in the sale of condominiums and speculating it might indicate an increasing market for retirement living.
Sales of condos and villas — traditionally thought to appeal to retirees because they don’t have to [...]
Like the final minutes of a TV makeover show, construction crews and designers are scrambling to put the finishing touches on some downtown condominium models for the big reveal this weekend.
More than 2,000 people are expected to tour 13 downtown condos Saturday on the Downtown Living Tour.
Developers and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce first [...]
Construction is being completed on the first of the four units of VidaNova at Edison Landing but the model unit is opening in a continuing soft residential real estate market.
There have been plenty of interested lookers at Muskegon’s first downtown waterfront residential development but to date, no buyers. Developer Doug Harjer of Grand Haven said [...]
Even as experts fret over a dramatic burst of the bulging U.S. real estate bubble that might send prices plunging across the nation, the land and housing values in the Potomac Highlands are defying the trend.
“With an average unit price of $174,503 and a lot of wild life,†the RealtyTimes.com reported last month, “the buyers [...]
For almost anyone selling a condo, 2006 was a bleak year. Condos bore the brunt of the housing slump: Inventory was high, sales were down, buyers pulled out of contracts, and prices in most places either stagnated or dropped.
The first two months of 2007 have been promising, though, real estate agents across the region say. [...]
Live and own right here. Walk anywhere you need to be. Look out on Tampa’s skyline every night from your downtown home.
It’s a pitch one can see all over downtown on banners for SkyPoint, Element and other burgeoning developments.
It’s a pitch that has young professionals finally buying that Tampa can provide an upscale, urban lifestyle.
It’s [...]
