Real Estate News http://www.realestater.info/real-estate-news 2008-08-27T15:57:57+01:00 text/html http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080825/BREAKING/310181/2055 A trade group for real estate agents says sales of existing homes rose 3.1 percent in July as buyers snapped up deeply discounted properties in parts of the country hit hardest by the <a rel='tag' href='/real-estate-information/housing' title='housing'>housing</a> bust. The National Association of Realtors reported sales ... text/html http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=MW&date=20080827&id=9073692 Investors Real Estate Trust (NASDAQ: IRET) (NASDAQ: IRETP) announced that its Board of Trustees has declared a regular quarterly distribution of 16.90 cents per share/unit payable on October 1, 2008, to common shareholders and unitholders of record ... text/html http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/08/27/businesswire20080827006081r1.html Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct ... text/html http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/08/27/businesswire20080827005981r1.html "Hideaway Stables," a premier Tennessee Walking Horse facility located on 96+ acres fronting the Sandy River in Troutdale, Oregon, will sell at absolute auction on September 18th onsite at 1 p.m. J. P. King Auction Company, the nation's leading real ... text/html http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/26/smallbusiness/exporting_tiny_houses.fsb/index.htm (Fortune Small Business) -- Edward Leftwich loves to show visitors around the Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. It's a massive 4,000-building mixed-use project that he just finished constructing for a client in Dubai, complete with hundreds of waterways ... text/html http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837548/cid/97069/sh/2 <a rel='tag' href='/real-estate-information/housing' title='housing'>Housing</a> Market: Shift on the Horizon? Four reports on the <a rel='tag' href='/real-estate-information/housing' title='housing'>housing</a> market in just two days, and they all point to a possible shift on the horizon, reports CNBC's Diana Olick. A preview of the Fed Minutes and housing data, with Diane Swonk, Mesirow ... text/html http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2008/08/27/20080827biz-onlineauctions0827.html A growing number of home sellers are dealing with the Valley <a rel='tag' href='/real-estate-information/housing' title='housing'>housing</a> market's harsh reality by taking their business into virtual reality. Purveyors of Internet-driven real-estate auctions say their customers operate in a parallel universe where the ... text/html http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/08/27/bc-real-estate-fraud.html Police say the investigation involved 107 cases of real estate and mortgage transactions between 2000 and 2002. (CBC) Two Vancouver men have been arrested and charged following complaints of fraudulent real estate transactions totalling more than $30 ... text/html http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/08/new_iphone_home.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Newspapers across the country are in turmoil as advertising revenue continues to flood out of print and onto the Web. Classified advertisements, especially the real estate listings that papers have long depended on, have shifted to Craigslist and ... text/html http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/business/story.html?id=751730 VANCOUVER -- A marathon investigation into one of the biggest financial frauds in B.C. history has led to multiple criminal charges being filed against former Vancouver lawyer Martin Wirick and Vancouver real-estate developer Tarsem Singh Gill. Both ...