The summary of a 2008 nationwide real estate forecast is sprinkled with fearsome words: “greater downside risk,” “repricing environment,” “vulture-oriented investing,” “retrench,” “ebbing tenant demand,” “tapped-out consumers.”
But speakers at a meeting Tuesday about the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2008″ report said Utah has a hard-charging economy and demographics that will insulate it from a [...]

So far this year, the developer of the oceanfront Costa Verano condos has reported a 17 percent national default, referring to buyers who walked away from their contracts and their six-figure deposits.
But that wasn’t the case for the Costa Verano at 1031 First St. S. and defaults have been few with new condos in Jacksonville [...]

What started out as litigation here is now legislation in Trenton that will limit but also legalize a standard practice of charging an upfront fee to condominium buyers.
The bill, which has passed both chambers of the Legislature and is now on the governor’s desk, will allow condominium associations, only through their master deed or bylaws, [...]

They’re the new urbanites: ages 26 to 34, often recently married. In the past, they might have opted for a small house in the suburbs. But the trend nowadays is to buy a condo-apartment in the city, provided the neighborhood suits their tastes.
“Younger buyers are increasingly attracted to an amenity-rich lifestyle - to the dynamism [...]

We’ve been talking about real estate licensing laws, admittedly an exercise in futility. Whatever arguments I might make for repeal, it remains that the Arizona Department of Real Estate is not going to dry up and blow away like tumbleweed.
But here’s an important question: Who do real estate licensing laws benefit?
If you thought of consumers, [...]

Cheap land and overzealous development have made Surprise one of the few Valley areas with an excess inventory of office condominiums, commercial real estate brokers report.
They add, however, that the oversupply should be absorbed in the long run as Surprise and the West Valley continue to grow.
Office condos are buildings with individual units popular among [...]

Cheap land and overzealous development have made Surprise one of the few Valley areas with an excess inventory of office condominiums, commercial real estate brokers report.
They add, however, that the oversupply should be absorbed in the long run as Surprise and the West Valley continue to grow.
Office condos are buildings with individual units popular among [...]

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 [...]

MILLBURN - Two local real estate companies have come to the rescue of the financially struggling Paper Mill Playhouse, one of the Northeast’s premier nonprofit theaters, according to a newspaper report.
At an emergency board meeting at the theater on Thursday night, Kenneth Thorn, chairman of the theater’s board of trustees, said two real estate companies [...]

So, you’ve finally decided to go ahead and buy that nice flat in Brazil. As the proud owner of the apartment you will also become an owner/member of the condominium association and the owner of a proportional fraction of the common areas and the land on which the building(s) is located.
You will acquire rights [...]

Online Real Estate Assistant, a professional provider of business support services to real estate brokers and agents, announces its new line of transaction platform service using Transaction Point. Online Real Estate Assistant, a NAR Certified Real Estate Assistant, is a virtual provider of listing, marketing and closing services. “We are very excited about the new [...]

The first-ever Dubai Real Estate Road Shows by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) kicked off in Saudi Arabia with the first of the two promotional programmes at Riyadh Four Season Hotel on February 11.
The second road show is due to be held at Jeddah Hilton on February 13.
The DTCM Director General, [...]