RE/MAX Reports Home Sales Surge in Second Half of 2009 Keyed Revival of Metro Chicago Real Estate Market (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Homes sales transactions in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market bounced back strongly during the second half of 2009 as the general economy began showing signs of renewed growth, according to an analysis of Chicago-area housing sales data by the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network.

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RE/MAX Reports Home Sales Surge in Second Half of 2009 Keyed Revival of Metro Chicago Real Estate Market (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

New real estate firm adapts to times (The Post and Courier)

The Charleston-based commercial real estate firm NAI Batten & Moore is no more. But most of its brokers are reassembling under a newly formed venture, Carolina Commercial LLC, starting today in anticipation of a potentially rocky period for the industry.

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New real estate firm adapts to times (The Post and Courier)

Saudi Arabia’s real estate market likely to exceed SR82b (MENAFN)

Saudi Arabia’s real estate market likely to exceed SR82b

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Saudi Arabia’s real estate market likely to exceed SR82b (MENAFN)

Mortgage on Circuit City headquarters a ‘loan of concern’ (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

It was a loan the lender didn’t want, sold in a public offering that wasn’t very public. Now the tenant, Circuit City Stores Inc., is bankrupt, and the bonds that its western Henrico County headquarters helped to finance have been downgraded. The mortgage on Circuit City’s now-empty headquarters - arranged by a now-defunct firm that sold the loan to itself and then sold bonds partly based on the …

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Saudi Arabia’s real estate market likely to exceed SR82 billion (Zawya)

31 January 2010 RIYADH: The Kingdom’s real estate market is likely to exceed SR82 billion during the next three years with expectations of the volume of investments to reach SR484 billion, according to Fahad Al-Sultan, secretary general of the Council of Saudi Chambers.

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BUSINESS Q&A: Simply saving money drive for real estate company (The San Angelo Standard-Times)

SAN ANGELO, Texas —Rodney Fleming knows how to handle the naysayers: He kills them with kindness.As the owner of Angelo Home Team — a real estate company that charges customers a maximum of 4.5 percent to sell their homes instead of the standard 6 percent — Fleming has fielded his share of competitors’ complaints.“When I first started, it was very negative,” he said. “When they’d call me to show …

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BUSINESS Q&A: Simply saving money drive for real estate company (The San Angelo Standard-Times)

Rules to cool real estate market (People’s Daily)

&$ &$Few people are able to afford a visit to housing agencies as the city’s property prices continue to soar. Wang Jing&$ &$ City mulls over regulations to curb investment on property amid soaring prices.

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Mortgage troubles move upward (Burbank Leader)

Regional foreclosure filings surged 63% in 2009, tripling the increases seen in California and the nation as mortgage trouble rippled into previously unaffected areas, according to a real estate report released Thursday.

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More Countries to Follow Asia on Mortgage Caps, Geoghegan Says (Bloomberg)

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Geoghegan said more countries will adopt the mortgage lending caps that protected Asia during the collapse in the U.S.

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More Countries to Follow Asia on Mortgage Caps, Geoghegan Says (Bloomberg)

More Countries to Follow Asia on Mortgage Caps, Geoghegan Says (BusinessWeek)

HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Geoghegan said more countries will adopt the mortgage lending caps that protected Asia during the collapse in the U.S. and U.K. housing markets.

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