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Health Care REIT is making its move9/7/2010 2:26 AM

After nearly a year of multimillion-dollar renovations incorporating green energy and employee-wellness features, Health Care REIT Inc.

Thieves hit Vinca Jewelry on the Plaza9/6/2010 10:06 PM

Thieves punched through a concrete block wall and bored into a thick metal safe early Monday to steal gold and diamonds from a Country Club Plaza jewelry store.It was like the Mafia, said Simon Zouein, the owner of Vinca Jewelry at 4801 Jefferson St.

Almost a quarter of all foreign buyers in U.S. choose Florida property9/6/2010 5:51 PM

International buyers have helped buttress Florida's real estate market with 22 percent of all foreign clients nationally choosing property in the Sunshine State.

Scotch Plains couple want inspector to file claim for chimney damage they say he missed9/6/2010 1:37 PM

Mike and Jessica Gromek had their Scotch Plains home inspected before purchase, and they say the inspector overlooked chimney problems, above, resulting in $18,500 in repairs.

Builder starts Garfield town house ...9/6/2010 9:17 AM

At a time when most builders have put down their tools, Pulte Group Inc. has started a 184-unit town house development overlooking the Passaic River in Garfield.

The Age probed over real estate agent junkets9/6/2010 5:03 AM

The Victorian Government will probe Fairfax Media over its real-estate junkets program, after the company decided to extend the controversial free-trips scheme into 2011.

Brien Center buy is rescue, mercy killing9/6/2010 12:53 AM

When we checked this spring on the Brien Center purchase of Mt. Carmel Church on Fenn Street in Pittsfield, Catherine Doherty, Brien's chief executive officer, cautiously described the upcoming sale.

Appraisers' handling of cancer label can make or break home sales in The Acreage9/5/2010 8:44 PM

Then came the war of the appraisers. The week before Adamczyk was scheduled to close, a lending company turned down the buyer's loan because the house's appraisal included a discussion of the cancer cluster that state health officials have declared in the community.

Ahead of the curve9/5/2010 4:34 PM

Home sales fell steeply in July after the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, but the D.C. housing market didn't fare as badly as the country as a whole.

Pending Home Sales Rise 5.2 Percent in July9/5/2010 12:19 PM

The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.

Big changes for realtor licensing requirements coming9/5/2010 8:05 AM

T he Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has announced significant changes to the designations of real estate agents and to the education requirements to become a "Realtor." Curr ently all are designated as either a "Real Estate Salesperson" or a "Real Estate Broker." The new designations will be "Broker" and "Managing ...

Priced to catch the eye, home sells above asking price9/5/2010 3:55 AM

The game plan: Obsbaum and Curotto had the house professionally photographed. They listed it on the multiple listing service, advertised it on the Internet and held an open house.

Economy Killed the Real Estate Star9/4/2010 11:45 PM

Did greedy mortgage brokers, real estate agents and financial gurus kill the economy? Or did the economy kill the brokers? Are there any benefits left to home ownership? Not according to Time Magazine.

Former exec agrees to pay Simon $766K to settle suit9/4/2010 7:31 PM

A former Simon Property Group executive has agreed to pay $766,000 to the Indianapolis mall developer to settle a lawsuit it filed against him.

Merchandise Mart up for sale9/4/2010 3:16 PM

For more than $1 billion, you can buy Christopher Kennedy's Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.


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Hot Zone Doc., Ch. 15: Coming Home (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 4/3/2008 11:25 AM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 15: Coming HomeIn this final chapter of "A World of Conflict," Kevin Sites returns home to the U.S., only to confirm what he suspected -- that in the year that he was gone little had changed.


Hot Zone Doc., Ch. 14: Israel-Hezbollah War (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 2/26/2008 12:15 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 14: Israel-Hezbollah WarThe war between Israel and Hezbollah shook the landscape in the Middle East.


Hot Zone Doc., Ch. 13: Sri Lanka (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 2/14/2008 9:26 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 13: Sri LankaKevin Sites covered Sri Lanka as violence erupted between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, pushing a nation with so much to lose back to the brink of all-out war. In rebel-held territory Sites interviewed Tiger fighters about their tactics and reported on the many effects of war still seen in the region.


Hot Zone Doc., Ch. 12: Nepal and Kashmir (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 2/6/2008 3:48 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 12: Nepal and KashmirKevin Sites covered Nepal during a time of sweeping political change that followed mass nationwide protests, forcing the autocratic King to cede power.


Hot Zone Documentary, Ch. 11: Child Bride (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 1/16/2008 11:31 AM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 11: Child BrideIn Afghanistan, Kevin Sites met a 12-year-old girl named Gulsoma, whose incredible story of resilience resonated with millions of people worldwide. She was only six years old when she was sold to a neighbor family in Kandahar as a child bride.


Hot Zone Documentary, Ch. 10: Afghanistan (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 12/17/2007 3:50 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 10: AfghanistanReporting from Afghanistan in spring 2006, more than four years after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban, Kevin Sites found that war is not over in the country.


Hot Zone Documentary, Chapter Nine: Chechnya (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 12/3/2007 1:53 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter Nine: ChechnyaIn Chechnya during the winter of 2005-2006, Kevin Sites reported on a region still reeling from lingering conflict between Russia and Islamic separatists. The conflict engulfed Chechnya in the 1990s, and even now, half of the population is yet to return. Those that have eke out a living amid the rubble.


Hot Zone Documentary, Chapter Eight: Iran (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 11/19/2007 4:56 PM

                  

            
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Documentary: 'Open Eye - Open I' (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 11/13/2007 12:50 AM
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - In her internationally-screened documentary, "Open Eye - Open I," Shirley Barenholz navigates the emotions stirred by tragedy -- she captures how her subjects cope, grieve, and make peace with their trials. Play this Video  
Hot Zone Documentary, Chapter Seven: Israel (Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone) 11/12/2007 10:05 PM

                  

            
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter Seven: IsraelIn Israel, Kevin Sites interviewed Kinneret Boosany, a victim of a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv cafe in 2002.


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Colleges going on real estate shopping sprees9/6/2010 2:22 PM

Columbia University's Manhattanville Development looks northeast from Riverside Drive, in New York. Columbia, like many colleges across the country, has bought acres and acres of land that it doesn't immediately need and doesn't yet know how it will use it.Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used.





Real estate - Business - Education - Colleges and Universities - Directories
Pending home sales rise 5.2% in July9/2/2010 8:30 AM
The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.


Contract - Business - National Association of Realtors - Residential Housing - Construction and Maintenance
Builders of N.Y. mosque face financial hurdles9/2/2010 5:37 PM
The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.


World Trade Center - Islam - Real estate - New York City - September 11 2001
Homeowners feel stress of life 'underwater'9/1/2010 1:43 PM

Mike Choi's townhouse in Connecticut has two bedrooms. But he lives in the basement, renting out the upstairs rooms to help pay down his lost equity. A broad swath of homeowners — those not headed for the worst-case scenario of foreclosure — are nonetheless grappling with the impact of lost home equity.





Foreclosure - Real estate - Business - Investing - Mortgage loan
Banks to allow local groups to buy foreclosures9/1/2010 10:23 AM
Major banks are agreeing to give local governments and nonprofit groups the ability to buy foreclosed homes before they are sold to private investors.


Foreclosure - United States - Local government - Non-profit organization - Real estate
Ever so humble, but housing is more expensive8/31/2010 12:13 PM
You look back 10 years, what did you get? A little bit cleaner and deeper in debt. With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, that’s a brief synopsis of how U.S. home life has changed during the past decade.


United States - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Tennessee - Government - Shopping
Mortgage applications rise 2.7% on low rates9/1/2010 10:08 AM
Mortgage applications rose 2.7 percent last week as more borrowers took advantage of the lowest rates in decades to reduce their monthly loan payments.


Mortgage - Loan - Business - Financial services - United States
Burst of buying drove up June home prices8/31/2010 8:23 AM
Home prices rose in June for a third straight month as now-expired tax credits inspired a burst of home-buying.


Home - United States - Accounting - Tax - Conferences
Administration undecided on housing credit8/29/2010 1:04 PM
The Obama administration has not decided whether it should resurrect a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said.


Shaun Donovan - Presidency of Barack Obama - United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - United States - Business
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Foreclosure trims number of underwater homes8/26/2010 5:20 PM
Foreclosures are helping to thin the ranks of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth, new data shows.


Foreclosure - Mortgage - United States - Real estate - Business
One in 10 mortgage holders faces foreclosure8/26/2010 8:56 AM
One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis.


Foreclosure - Mortgage - Business - Real estate - United States
Empire State Building to get new, tall, neighbor8/25/2010 5:45 PM

This artist's rendering shows the proposed 15 Penn Plaza, center, rising 67-stories in Midtown Manhattan, just 34 feet shorter than New York's iconic Empire State Building at left.The Empire State Building's owner has lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood.





Empire State Building - Skyscraper - United States - Building Types - Arts
New home sales hit slowest pace on record8/25/2010 1:47 PM

A sign indicating a new home is available for sale in Miami, Fla. Sales of new homes dropped last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.Sales of new homes dropped sharply last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.





United States - U.S. Housing Market - Business - United States Department of Commerce - Real estate


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