Homester.com Web News Archive

Cornerstone Communities donates $100K to SDSU Real Estate Program (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - San Diego State University's College of Business Administration announced Friday that its Real Estate Program is the recipient of a $100,000 pledge from local real estate developer Ure Kretowicz of Cornerstone Communities.

City's commercial real estate expected to be very healthy in 2006 (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - The San Diego commercial real estate market is expected to be very healthy throughout 2006, according to reports by Grubb & Ellis nationally and Grubb & Ellis/BRE Commercial here.

Real estate sales remain stable in Bonsall, Fallbrook (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - December real estate prices and activity were stable in the northern San Diego County communities of Fallbrook and Bonsall as high inventory levels eased during the month and price appreciation was almost negligible, Jerry Kalman, Prudential California Realty, reported Wednesday.

Rolling 401(k) into a real estate IRA (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Instead of investing in real estate through an expensive custodial account, consider starting your own real estate company and opening a 401 for your employee -- namely you, says our tax adviser.

Desktop Listing System Launch Free Real Estate System that Never Sleeps (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Jan. 6 — George Namho, of Hermon Zion Real Estate, in Atlanta, Georgia, recently unveiled Desktop Listing System™, a streaming desktop application for real estate industry.

GM names John Blanchard director of worldwide real estate, succeeding Doug Rothwell (Crain's Detroit Business) - John Blanchard, who oversaw the redevelopment of the Renaissance Center into General Motors Corp. 's global headquarters in downtown Detroit, became the automaker's executive director of worldwide real estate, effective last Sunday.

Real estate market remains bouyant in 2005 (Ottawa Business Journal) - Ottawa's residential real estate market continues to sizzle, with 2005 sales coming within a whisker of the record-setting pace of the previous year.

Valley real estate was full of ebbs and flows in 2005 (Las Vegas Business Press) - The Las Vegas Valley's real estate market reached dizzying heights in 2005, with super-sized deals and mammoth new projects.

Temple University's Real Estate Institute Introduces Online Courses for Continuing Education (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Real estate professionals will now have the option of enrolling in online continuing education courses through Temple University's Real Estate Institute .

Germany confirms real estate stress tests (Investment & Pensions Europe) - IPE.com 5/Jan/06: GERMANY – Financial services regulator BaFin has confirmed that it will include direct investments in real estate in so-called “stress tests” for German life insurers and certain pension funds.