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Top 1,000 Brokerages Reveal Which Real Estate Firms Are Surviving — And Growing — In The Current Recessionary Market
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Shohei Ohtani And His Agent Settle Hawaii Lawsuit Over Alleged Sabotage Of $240 Million Real Estate Project
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James Corden Locked In Bitter Fight With London Council Over Paving Changes At His $22 Million Heritage Home
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Mortgage Rates Jump Back Above 6% After Iran Strikes Push Oil Prices And Treasury Yields Higher
New Zealand's real estate players are making headlines and not for a good reason. It doesn't look good for New Zealand's biggest name firms after 13 real estate agencies have been accused of price-fixing. US Housing Made Promising Surge Last Month, Suggests Steady Sales
US Housing is recording increase, some for nearly a decade. The U. S. housing markets made a promising surge last month, the highest in the last seven months-a promise of steady sales perhaps, which the builders see as a good sign. US Rental Prices Continues to Rise at A Slow Rate: Housing Costs Predicted to Continue Exceeding Income Growth
Rental prices in the US are continuously rising at a slow rate but are predicted to continue growing, higher than that of the income growth rate in the country. Driverless Cars Now a Reality; Ford to Bring Autonomous 'Fusion Hybrid' to California in 2016
Ford is bringing their driverless Ford Fusion hybrid cars on the streets of California in 2016. Ford Motor Company is now the latest major automaker to be testing and driving autonomous vehicles on the West Coast roads. Game of Thrones News: Brewery Ommegang to Release 6th Game of Thrones Inspired Beer in Time for GoT Season 6 Premiere
As part of their partnership with HBO, Brewery Ommegang will release the sixth “Game of Thrones” inspired beer in time for Game of Thrones season 6 premiere. New Studio Opened by Kojima Possible for Console Exclusive Partnership with PlayStation
When Hideo Kojima opened a new studio, Kojima Productions, he partnered it with Sony for the release of its first independent game, which can be played exclusively on Sony's PlayStation 4 console. New California Real Estate Developments Experiment With Ways To Save Water
In an affluent neighborhood north of San Diego, the Sea Cliff development appears to be yet another series of expensive homes sprouting across California. However, the million-dollar custom houses have an innovative feature that makes them different and extremely useful during drought. Real Estate News: Home Mortgage Rates Increase as U.S. Housing Crisis Recovers
The home mortgage rates increase slightly. The executive vice president of TransUnion, Steve Chaouki said it is an indication of housing crisis recovery. California Real Estate News: Ballot Measure Requiring Developers and City Officials to Follow City Planning Rule Supported by Majority of Los Angeles Residents, Coalition to Preserve LA Poll Shows
A recent poll by the Coalition to Preserve LA, a group of concerned citizens and voters, shows that 72 percent of the 557 respondents agrees to the ballot measure that requires developers and city officials to abide with the city's General Plan--which provides an overview of land use and traffic policies--to determine city approval of proposed real estate development projects. International Real Estate News: London West End Got the Top Spot in CBRE’s List of Most Expensive Office Occupancy Rates
London's West End is considered to have the most expensive office occupancy rate in the world with US$273 per sq. ft. per year, while Hong Kong and Beijing garnered the four remaining spots in the Top 5, according to the CBRE's Global Prime Office Occupancy Cost Survey.