real estate

Real estate refers to land and any permanent structures or buildings attached to the location. Real estate is a legal phrase with laws, regulations and practices related to real estate varying from country to country. Residential real estate can refer to single dwelling homes, apartments, condominiums or terraced housing. Commercial real estate would include factories, offices, store fronts and shopping malls.

Real estate is often purchased with a bank loan or mortgage to hold the title of the property until the final payment is made. Real estate transactions may require a licensed real estate agent and a real estate attorney. Real estate laws and regulations change often and vary based upon the laws of the country the property is located in.

The real estate industry has developed new technologies, including search engines and other social networking and blogs to facilitate the way the real estate industry works and increase information available to consumers. Thousands of real estate blogs have emerged often supporting sophisticated web search engine sites with property listings, agency information and local neighborhood information. In an industry that changes often, where information is not just power but also money, the real estate blog can be a powerful destination.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “real estate”

• Make Real Estate Investments

  
  Tax Lien Investing — Authority: 147
  People make real estate investments for various reasons. A person may want to buy the house, he or she dreamed for a long time. So to make this dream come true, the investment should be done. Very often small investments can also give large returns such as in a situation when people sell a house [...]
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• Beat Assailant SPY

  
  Rubbishcorp .::. — Authority: 509
  Slick video for Beat Assailant. Via SellSell.
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• Michigan seeks to use Land Banks for redevelopment

  
  Absolute Michigan — Authority: 422
  Abandoned Richardsonian Romanesque House in Detroit ( Former James Scott Mansion ) by Derek Farr Michigan has 29 land bank authorities - more than any state. The Detroit News reports that Michigan is going to try to use these land banks to spur redevelopment and garner nearly $300 million : With the federal ...
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• Best Rental

  
  Tax Lien Investing — Authority: 147
  Management companies offer a wide range of property management services to investors. Every real estate investment can be different and services also vary. In this article we are going to discuss the main services provided by residential property management companies. Determine the best rental rate A manger will do a ...
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• Real Estate Marketing

  
  Tax Lien Investing — Authority: 147
  When looking for a real estate agent the most popular question that is asked by prospects is: “Why should I choose you to help me sell or purchase a house?”A lot of real estate agents do not have convincing reason why prospects should hire them. When your prospects do not understand a significant reason between ...
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• Commercial Market: Unsatisfactory results

  
  Toronto Real Estate Agents | Julie Kinnear — Authority: 120
  Latest press release from TREB reveals November figures for commercial real estate in GTA. Unlike the resale market , commercial market results are seriously lacking behind the year 2008. Realtors reported 468,350 square feet of leased space in November, down 58% from the 1,113,195 square feet recorded in November of ...
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• INVESTOR PROFILE-Market falls no worry for beta blocker Manser

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  * Outperformed last year, underperfomed this years gains
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• Don’t Buy Real Estate in 2010

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 143
  While it might be tempting to buy US real estate at presently depressed prices, or to look around in Dubai for a distressed seller, the best bargains for global real estate are probably not going to emerge until 2011. For one thing, the interest rate cycle is all wrong for rock bottom bargains now. The lowest real ...
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• PRESS DIGEST - Canada - Dec 22

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  Dec 22 (Reuters) - The following are top stories fromselected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified thesestories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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• State alerts home sellers to new requirements

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 143
  Beginning in January, Massachusetts home sellers will have to comply with new state safety regulations designed to equip older single and multi-family homes with two different kinds of smoke detectors — one best for sensing flames, the other best for sensing smoke. And even though there is no state law requiring ...
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• Indian shares rise 0.55 pct to end losing streak

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  * Metals shine on optimistic outlook for metals in 2010
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• Russian richest man sets up oligarchs bank

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  * Some have reputation of aggressive portfolio investors
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• Brazils BTG may bid for asset manager BRZ-report

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  SAO PAULO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - BTG Pactual, the securitiesfirm controlled by Brazilian banking wunderkind Andre Esteves,is in talks to buy Sao Paulo-based asset management firm BRZInvestimentos, magazine Veja said on its Tuesday online edition.
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• Mortgage Bankers Association: Weekly Application Update

  
  Real Estate Pick — Authority: 161
  Mortgage Bankers Association for the week of November 12, 2009 Market Composite Index: (loan application volume) increased 3.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. Refinance Index: increased ...
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• EU clears BAWAG state aid, wants restructuring plan

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  BRUSSELS, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Austrian bank BAWAG PSK, ownedby U.S. financier Cerberus Capital [CBS.UL], will need topresent a restructuring plan to European Union regulators afterwinning their approval on Tuesday for state aid.
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• Cairo – Open for Global Real Estate Business – Al-Bawaba

  
  Discover520.COM — Authority: 174
  Cairo – Open for Global Real Estate Business Al-Bawaba These findings by Jones Lang LaSalle, the leading global real estate investment and advisory firm, were released today in a strategic report, “Cairo: Open ...
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• SE Asia Stocks-Major indexes climb; Thailand at 2-month high,

  
  Reuters — Authority: 640
  BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Most Southeast Asian stockmarkets gained on Tuesday as buying interests in big capsspanned across the region, helping Singapore end a three-daylosing streak and pushing the Thai index to its highest in twomonths.
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• 3 People The First Time Home Buyer Needs On Their Team

  
  Free articles — Authority: 177
  Many first time home buyers are not sure where to get started They are ready to buy their first home and want to make sure they don?t make any mistakes
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• Rave Picks Up Movie Theaters from Mr. Redstone

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  Rave Cinemas will purchase the business operations and selected real estate assets of up to 35 movie theater complexes owned by National Amusements, a company controlled by Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.
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• Gov Delinquency, Prime REOs Worse

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 154
  Delinquency of at least 30 days on government-guaranteed mortgages during the third quarter climbed 130 basis points from the second quarter, according to the third-quarter OCC and OTS Mortgage Metrics Report. The report reflects data from around 34 million loans for $6 trillion that are serviced by national banks and ...
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