Homester.com Web News Archive

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

Six Real Estate Lawyers Move Out From MoFo (Law.com) - A group of Morrison & Foerster real estate and land use partners are headed to 100-lawyer real estate firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson. Land use attorneys Michael Zischke and Anne Mudge will be leaving MoFo's San Francisco office.

Minneapolis real estate firm opens local office (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Opus North Corp., a commercial real estate firm with a national reach, has opened a Cincinnati office in Sharonville.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Dorothy Walsko , a Howard Hanna Real Estate agent, was named Realtor of the Year by the Washington-Greene Association of Realtors.

Tesco Shares Rise on Real-Estate Sale and Leaseback (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) - Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of Tesco Plc, the U.K.'s biggest food retailer, rose after the company signed a real- estate sale-and-leaseback agreement with British Airways Plc's pension fund.

Tesco Shares Rise on Real-Estate Sale and Leaseback (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) - Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of Tesco Plc, the U.K.'s biggest food retailer, rose the most in three months after the company signed a real-estate sale-and-leaseback agreement with British Airways Plc's pension fund.

County Officials Indict Real Estate Crime Suspects (Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News) - Cuyahoga County officials cracked down on suspected real estate criminals Thursday, arresting several people during a sting operation and marking the first major roundup since the county formed its foreclosure prevention program, reported NewsChannel5's Angie Lau.

San Diego commercial real estate may slow, but will stay strong in 2007 (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - San Diego County's office, industrial and retail markets are projected to continue to be healthy throughout 2007, according to a commercial real-estate brokerage report.

Brazil Real Estate Developer Rodobens Unveils IPO Details (Nasdaq) - SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian real estate development firm Rodobens Negocios Imobiliarios SA Friday said it plans to sell 20 million common shares in an initial public offering on the Brazilian Stock Exchange, or Bovespa.

Hidden Lake apartments sold to California real estate investment firm (BizJournals) - Hidden Lake Apartment Homes on San Antonio's far West Side has been sold to a multifamily real estate investment trust.