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.

America's Richest Real Estate Billionaires (Forbes) - Despite the talk of a housing collapse, the real estate tycoons of the Forbes 400 are as wealthy as ever.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate news in brief.

Florida real estate declines push BankAtlantic into the red (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - BankAtlantic posted a net loss of $27.1 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared to net income of $9.8 million a year earlier, as the bank increased its provisions for loan losses and real estate impairments.

Rants and Raves: Real estate market isn't bad for buyers (The Florida Times-Union) - Why are the media always talking about how awful the real estate market is? This business about "it is a terrible time to buy a home" is not true. This is the first time in [more than] 10 years that it has been a "buyers' market." Serious buyers should come forth now. They could be missing the boat. I, among many other Realtors, have seen the market a lot worse. I remember when FHA and VA were ...

South Florida real estate firms merge (BizJournals) - Real Estate firms Tarafa & Iriondo and EWM Realtors have merged.

Real estate agent arrested on fraud charges (phillyburbs.com) - MOUNT HOLLY — A licensed real estate agent charged with defrauding clients has been arrested, eight months after he failed to appear for his arraignment.

Report: Foreclosures will hurt real estate values (Newsday) - Homeowners and neighborhoods nationwide will lose more than $100 billion in real estate value and states will be out more than $917 million in property tax revenue by 2009 due to an escalation in foreclosures, a new congressional report has found.

Fulcrum Commercial Real Estate to hold investment symposium (North Bay Business Journal) - GREENBRAE, Oct. 26, 2007 – Fulcrum Commercial Real Estate will hold a real estate investment symposium on Thursday, Nov. 1 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Drakes Landing Banquet Room at 300 Drakes Landing Road in Greenbrae.

Real estate drags Allete's Q3 earnings down (BizJournals) - A rough spell for its real-estate business hurt results for Allete Inc., which said Friday its third-quarter earnings fell by nearly a third. (ALE)