This week former U.S. Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell (Ret.) told a ballroom-sized crowd assembled for the annual Turnaround Management Association’s (TMA) conference in a post- Katrina New Orleans his axiom, “If you have 40 to 70 percent of the information, you probably have what you need. Take a chance, do something. Go [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Michael Gross and his wife, Cathy Fry, bought a two-bedroom, two bath condo in the Hi-Pointe Lofts in Richmond Heights at 6350 Clayton Rd. for $462,000 from Gerald and Katherine Rittenbery on April 18.
Ramona Saunders of Midwest Eagle, Realtors listed the 1,691 square foot condo for $472,000.
Gross is an appellate lawyer and brief writer with [...]

Plagued by a chronic shortage of local workers, Wintergreen Resort has tried every tack but lassos to fill its staff: It has recruited 15-year-old high school kids. College kids. Seventy-five-year-old retirees. Foreign students in work exchange programs.
Still not enough.
This season’s idea: Jamaicans.
This Blue Ridge Mountains ski resort three hours southwest of Washington — playground for [...]

The Mills Corp., which owns the Great Mall in Milpitas, and Farallon Capital Management LLC said Friday they’ve reached an agreement for Simon Property Group entity and funds managed by Farallon to purchase The Mills for about $1.64 billion.
The deal between San Francisco-based Farallon and Mills Corp. calls for about $25.25 per common share in [...]

Associated Estates Realty Corporation announced today that the Company’s fourth quarter 2006 earnings are scheduled for release on Thursday, February 8, 2007, before the market opens. Promptly following the news wire release, the earnings announcement and supplemental fact booklet will be posted on http://ir.aecrealty.com/results.cfm. Visit the Company’s Investor Relations page and select Quarterly Results [...]

The Ritz-Carlton hotel and condominium tower proposed off Atlantic Street and Tresser Boulevard is the third proposal for the site since 2000.
F.D. Rich Co., which built much of the downtown skyline in its role as the city’s urban redeveloper, had previously planned a 330-foot-tall office building on the site and a two-building development featuring a [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. Four North Carolina hotels and two restaurants were among the top-rated in North America in a survey released today.
The Fearrington House Country Inn in Pittsboro was the state’s lone five-star hotel in the Mobil Travel Guide rankings, and one of only 53 hotels and restaurants in the U-S and Canada that received that [...]

CoStar Group, Inc. , the number one provider of information services to the commercial real estate industry, today announced it is expanding its database of industry-leading market information for the Washington, D.C. and Richmond metro areas to include the city of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania and Stafford.
This expansion provides real [...]

It’s been an unsettling season for tourists, who have contended with a foiled London terror plot, the Lebanon-Israel conflict and hurricanes.
Troubled travelers who bought insurance have found help with rescheduling trips and recovering costs–or they have found disappointment. Trip-cancellation policies typically exclude war; they may cover terrorist incidents but not conspiracies, hurricanes but not [...]