Small Business, Big Advantages, Huge Opportunities
The real danger with a loudly-trumpeted, common crisis, like the recession, lies in the fact that this problem can become a convenient excuse for professionals and businesses.
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Real Estate Outlook: Sales on the Decline
Remember the stock market panics and credit market shocks back in mid and late October — and the dramatic dropoff in consumer spending and confidence that followed?
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Simon Property Group settles claim over gift cards
Connecticut’s attorney general says the owner of the Crystal Mall in Waterford has agreed to pay nearly $309,000 to settle alleged violations of the state’s gift card laws.
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Who’s in control? Forest City and the indirect subsidy value of its ‘entitlements’
After that, Forest City Ratner gained its “entitlement,” a word favored by Forest City Enterprises CEO Chuck Ratner, a word that indicates that the developer controls the pace, a phrase used last month at a …
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First-time buyers can get homes cheaply
Home prices are plummeting and foreclosures may be piling up, but the worst real estate downturn in decades is a godsend for certain people who traditionally are shut out of the market: first-time homebuyers.
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General Growth signs forbearances
General Growth Properties Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns more than 200 shopping malls in the U.S., signed forbearance agreements temporarily protecting the company against …
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Carnegie Hall Wants to Evict Its Duchess
Since 1947, Editta Sherman has lived in a “palatial” rent-controlled apartment above New York’s storied Carnegie Hall, for which she pays only $650 a month, according to CNN. Ms. Sherman,…
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BRIEF-Kaufman & Broad agrees new credit terms, sales fall
Kaufman & Broad SA: * Says 2008 sales down 15.7 percent * Agrees new credit terms with its bankers.
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Real Estate Outlook: Rates Drop
If low-cost mortgage money and property prices provide the fuel to power strong housing sales, we just might be on the verge of a takeoff, at least a modest one.
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America’s 10 Fastest-Growing States
The populations of these states are growing the fastest, even in slow economic times.
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