Total Number of News: 6369
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Tenant-in-common buyer builds office portfolio
    Grubb & Ellis Co. negotiated the sale of Saturn Business Park, a 121,143-square-foot, low-rise office project in Brea, Calif. The transaction was valued at $22 million. Saturn Business Park LLC, a Santa Ana-based tenant-in-common buyer, purchased th...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    CarrAmerica expands in D.C. metro area
    CarrAmerica Realty Corp. acquired Tysons International Plaza, a two-building, 434,606-square-foot office project in Tysons Corner, Va. CarrAmerica paid approximately $123.1 million for 1919 and 1921 Gallows Road, in the pedestrian-friendly Tysons East a...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Google Base launches as possible online classifieds contender
    Google Base, a service that allows people to upload content on a publicly searchable online database, launched today. The product works somewhat similarly to craigslist, making it possible to quickly and easily create a free post that will appear onlin...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Florida real estate prices soar in third quarter
    Other larger MSAs reporting higher resales activity for third quarter 2005 include: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, where 13,973 homes sold for a 12 percent gain; and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, where 3,802 homes changed hands for a 5 percent increase. ...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    WWNotary, MRG join forces to streamline real estate loans
    WWNotary and MRG Document Technologies have created a system enabling their customers to electronically post, review, close, record and file completed electronic mortgage documents. WWNotary's product, DigaSign, makes it possible to sign digitally at o...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Home builder D.R. Horton earnings shatter records
    D.R. Horton, one of the nation's largest home builders, today reported the highest quarterly and annual earnings in the company's history and raised its 2006 earnings guidance. The company's stock (NYSE:DHI) was up approximately 2 percent on the news, ...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Texans indicted in alleged $2 million real estate fraud
    A group of Texans were indicted in Dallas in connection with an alleged mortgage fraud scheme involving about $2 million in fraudulent loans. The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of T...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Builder confidence declines in November
    David Seiders, NAHB chief economist Responding to sharply lower measures of consumer confidence as well as rising mortgage rates and other factors in recent months, single-family home builders are adjusting their market expectations downward to a sti...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    Fannie Mae's CEO gets a raise
    Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd Fannie Mae on Tuesday said it increased its chief executive's base salary and would pay new chief financial officer, Robert Blakely, a base salary of $650,000, according to media reports. Blakely will also receive 10,000 ...
  • 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
    FEMA's timetable for housing hurricane evacuees criticized
    The National Multi Housing Council, a trade association representing apartment firms, today announced that it generally supports the Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan to transition all remaining hurricane evacuees to apartments by Dec. 1, thoug...