Investor Report: Tax Extender Act

Real estate investors are facing a squeeze play on Capitol Hill, with important tax incentives nearing an end-of-the-year deadline.

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On the Market: 40 East 66th Street

Good Day New York’s Christal Young checks out a luxurious property on the Upper East Side: Apartment 4A inside 40 East 66th Street has been renovated but still retains its prewar grandeur.

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Updated: CMBS Activity: Passing Heat Wave or a Lasting Warming?

Winter may have sent its first blast of the season across the country this past week, but a thaw seems to be settling into the CMBS market. Not only did the third CMBS deal in the past month – indeed the past two years – price this past week, but news…

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State settles two environmental suits

Regency Hills Development Corp. and JJD Mastercraft Builders Inc., two Kenosha County companies, have settled in two state environmental lawsuits over construction site violations.

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Real Estate Outlook: Housing Warmer Than Weather

If new applications to buy homes are any gauge, the U.S. housing market is warming up, and that’s despite the fact that we’re now into the traditionally quiet holiday season.

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Editorial: FHA Ignorance

Steve Chapman just blew my mind. Here I am, minding my own business, sipping my chewy gas station coffee, reading the Tribune, and there’s Steve Chapman’s face. Steve Obama-Apologist Chapman. Normally he writes things about how everyone who doesn’t like Obama is racist, and other hard hitting pontifications. But for all of Chapmans left leaning commentary, he does get a point or two in my book for calling out mistakes that Obama is making as he struggles to make Jimmy Carter look like a strong president. In today s Tribune, Chapman writes something that I’ve been writing about for the past year. He tackles the issue of mortgage, and from a decidedly conservative position, talks about the reasons behind foreclosure, and what the current administration is doing to further ideological views on housing that have nothing to do with the reality of a marketplace.

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IHS: Florida realizing home value gains

Hit hard by the housing downturn, Florida is one of two states that realized gains of more than 4 percent in home prices, according to a quarterly housing valuation analysis by IHS Global Insight.

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Listed: Discounted Lakeside Hideaway

Lake Tahoe’s luxury home slide makes this woodsy cabin a bargain.

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Stay warm and dry

Your home needs regular maintenance to ensure your family stays warm, dry and comfortable throughout the winter season.While there are maintenance tasks that should be done year-round, some are particularly important in winter.

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VOIP Supplier Leases 124,000 SF in Metro Boston

Acme Packet leased 123,788 square feet at 100 Crosby Drive in Bedford, MA, DivcoWest’s 261,961-square-foot, Class A office property about 18 miles northwest of Boston.The Burlington-based voice over Internet protocol equipment supplier will relocate…

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