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Monday February 13, 2012

Georgia Real Estate Market News

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02/05/2012 - Real Estate Scorecard Awards the Best Communities of the Year in the Southeast
  • The 2012 Bliss Award categories include: Happiest Community of the Year, Best Golf Community of the Year, Best Lake Community of the Year, Best Equestrian Community of the Year and more.Beaufort, SC (PRWEB) February 05, 2012 Real Estate Scorecard provides real estate reviews about master planned communities in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. After evaluating over ...

  • 02/12/2012 - Georgia, Wayne County
  • All debtors and creditors of the Estate of Lala Jewel Mallard Edenfield., deceased of Wayne County, Georgia are hereby notified to render in their demands of the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to me.

  • 02/06/2012 - Court hears case of the gated gator that gobbled the guest granny
  • ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court is grappling with the question of whether a posh real-estate development is to blame for an alligator mauling to death an 83-year-old visitor.

  • 02/07/2012 - Ga. court hears case of granny vs. gator
  • ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court is grappling with the question of whether a posh real-estate development is to blame for an alligator mauling an 83-year-old visitor to death.

  • 02/04/2012 - Georgians generous to Romney, Gingrich
  • Mitt Romney continued to dominate the money race in Georgia as the former Massachusetts governor out-raised all other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in the final quarter of 2011.

  • 01/31/2012 - Bill could bring relief to plummeting home values
  • A bill moving through the Georgia House of Representatives could bring relief to plummeting home values. House Bill 794 aims to rework the current law that uses the most recent real estate transactions as the maximum allowable fair market value for the next taxable year. Under the bill, those transactions, including foreclosures, would only be considered in determining home values. Treva Jones ...

  • 01/29/2012 - Leading Brokerage Increases Sales 49 Percent in 2011: What’s Their Secret?
  • In a year when breaking even on year-over-year home sales might be considered a lofty goal for some real estate companies, Blue Ridge, Georgia’s Coldwell Banker High Country Realty, has reported a 49 percent increase in homes sold in 2011 …

  • 01/26/2012 - Atlanta Moderns Launches Site for Modern, Mid-century and Historic Southern Homes
  • Atlanta Moderns has launched a new real estate lifestyle site that focuses on available Modern, Mid Century Modern and Historic Homes in the Atlanta Georgia area. Beyond available listings, the site, and its blog will review local resources, events and people involved in the modern and historic home movements in Atlanta. Among its Historic Homes will be over 100 available Antebellum and Rural ...

  • 01/21/2012 - Gingrich leading Romney in early South Carolina poll results
  • Laurens, S.C. – Newt Gingrich was holding a substantial lead over Mitt Romney in early poll results here Saturday night, indicating the former Georgia congressman could pull of a stunning upset in the Palmetto State's Republican primary.

  • 01/15/2012 - Georgia bets on biotech loans
  • Georgia bets on biotech loans

  • 01/12/2012 - Money recommended for downtown Augusta renovation
  • The Downtown Development Authority recommend 566 Broad St. for a Georgia Cities Foundation loan of $105,000.

  • 01/12/2012 - Legislative Notebook: Venture capital, hunting with silencer on tap at Dome
  • A new bill that would create a venture capital fund for the state of Georgia has just hit the state Legislature, carried by state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon.

  • 01/12/2012 - Grant recommended for downtown Augusta renovation
  • The Downtown Development Authority recommend 566 Broad St. for a Georgia Cities Foundation grant of $105,000.

  • 01/10/2012 - Augusta Realtor Bill Boatman named president of state association
  • Augusta real estate executive Bill Boatman will be the president of the Georgia Association of Realtors for 2012.

  • 01/09/2012 - Georgia: Trying to Get a Handle on Public Works
  • Editors' Picks:  No 010912_06.jpg One can imagine that if Mikheil Saakashvili had never become the chief executive of Georgia, he would have excelled as a Donald Trump-style real estate developer. read more

  • 01/03/2012 - Adams, other Athenians on most-influential list
  • University of Georgia President Michael Adams and seven other Athens-area residents are among the 100 most influential people in the state, according to Georgia Trend magazine.

  • 01/02/2012 - Budget cuts threaten state death row cases
  • Some Georgia death row inmates could lose their attorneys amid budget cuts that could potentially halt appeals hearings and even delay executions. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on Sunday that there's two key reasons for the funding lapse: The steep decline in the real estate market and flagging support from Georgia lawmakers.

  • 12/28/2011 - Eric Claxton, Claxton Group Inc CEO, Announces “Operation Christmas Angel” was a Success- Having Helped 40 Families ...
  • Eric Claxton, 24 year old CEO of real estate power house, Claxton Group Inc, helps forty (40) low-income families throughout Georgia during the holiday season with his "Operation Christmas Angel" program. The only child of the real estate dynasty, Eric assumed control of Claxton Group Inc four years ago and since that time has turned out record profits for the family owned real estate ...

  • 12/26/2011 - CITY TALK: Keep eye on Ga. legislature
  • Georgia's economy has underperformed the nation as a whole since the recovery began in 2009. We could point to many reasons for that, especially real estate speculation during the boom.

  • 12/22/2011 - Harper: Returning Georgia's banks to health
  • Banking has been an important part of Georgia's development as a regional leader in job growth and economic development.

  • 12/21/2011 - McLean man making strong bid for presidency; Newt Gingrich rally in Arlington tonight
  • Though Newt Gingrich is often associated with Georgia, the fact is he has lived in McLean, in the northern reaches of the State of NoVa, since at least May 2000, when he bought a house here with his then-girlfriend, Callista Bisek, real estate records show. He married Bisek in Fairfax County in August 2000, court records show. And he has voted in McLean in every general election since 2002 ...

  • 12/20/2011 - JSC Bank of Georgia UK Regulatory Announcement: Bank of Georgia’s real estate subsidiary, SBRE to receive US$20 ...
  • TBILISI, Georgia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JSC Bank of Georgia (LSE: BGEO) (the “Bank”), the leading bank in Georgia announced today that FMO will provide US$20 million project financing for the development of a housing project by the Bank’s wholly-owned real estate subsidiary SBRE. The housing project is located in Tbilisi, Georgia. With an average of 3.7 persons living in one apartment, Tbilisi has ...

  • 12/11/2011 - Is Georgia shrinking? Census shows less land, more water
  • A new Census Bureau analysis shows Georgia has lost a lot of ground in the past decade - literally.

  • 12/09/2011 - Augusta to replace lost jobs in 2012
  • Georgia will continue to lag behind the nation's economic growth in 2012, but both the state and Augusta will add jobs in the coming year, economists predicted Friday.

  • 12/07/2011 - Trends in North Georgia Home Sales Monitored by New Market Tracking Tools
  • Harry Norman, Realtors - North Georgia Office (HNR-NGO) is supplying clients with tools to track the current trends in the Georgia real estate market. The office’s tools can be used by both buyers and sellers for monitoring trends in specific communities and when making decisions on real estate transactions. The office provides these tools free of charge to clients who can monitor real estate in ...

  • 11/30/2011 - Platinum Partners Help Pack the Pantry this Thanksgiving
  • Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners were excited to help SABOR (Savannah Board of REALTORS) fulfill their donations to America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, a local food bank, this Thanksgiving, the company announced. The food bank was established in 1981 as…

  • 11/29/2011 - CUZ Completes Promenade Acquisition - Analyst Blog
  • As part of the long-term strategy to upgrade its overall portfolio with newer high-quality assets, Cousins Properties Inc. ( CUZ ), a Georgia-based real estate investment trust (REIT),

  • 11/25/2011 - CUZ Maintains Neutral Recommendation - Analyst Blog
  • We reiterate our "Neutral" rating on Cousins Properties Inc. ( CUZ ), a Georgia-based real estate investment trust (REIT) engaged in the acquisition, financing, development,

  • 11/20/2011 - On-location tour of famous Georgia screen-star haunts
  • On-location tour of famous Georgia screen-star haunts

  • 11/20/2011 - Imbalance costly to Georgia job market
  • Imbalance costly to Georgia job market

  • 11/13/2011 - Why so many foreclosures hit Georgia
  • Why so many foreclosures hit Georgia

  • 11/09/2011 - Old UGA dorm to be demolished
  • ATLANTA -- The Board of Regents Committee on Real Estate and Facilities voted unanimously without discussion Tuesday to demolish Rutherford Hall at the University of Georgia.

  • 11/07/2011 - State water coalition names ‘Dirty Dozen' offenses
  • The Georgia Water Coalition released a “Dirty Dozen” list of “offenses to Georgia’s water” Monday, ranking 12 problems with state waters and assigning blame to the state environmental regulators charged with protecting them.

  • 11/05/2011 - Business : Flydubai unveils Georgia service
  • DUBAI - Flydubai has launched operations to its 45th international destination as it began direct flights to Tbilisi in Georgia on Friday.

  • 11/03/2011 - The Georgia Licensed Beverage Association (GALBA) Is Now the Independent Restaurant & Bar Association of Georgia (IRBAG)
  • ATLANTA, GA-- - GALBA Founder and President, Ron Wolf, has joined forces with prominent Savannah restaurateur, Pino Venetico, to form the new Independent Restaurant & Bar Association of Georgia. Venetico ...

  • 11/03/2011 - Natural gas fuel network in the works for Georgia
  • The Georgia Public Service Commission this week approved a plan by Atlanta Gas Light to fund a compressed natural gas fueling network in the state.

  • 11/01/2011 - Georgia DOT Planning Transit Project in Gulch Area
  • ATLANTA-The Georgia Department of Transportation is getting underway with plans to develop a large transportation hub in downtown Atlanta. The GDOT chose Forest City Real Estate Asset Services to lead the planning on a multi-modal passenger terminal on a 199-acre site there.

  • 11/01/2011 - Flattened grass will recover from Georgia-Florida parking, city says
  • The Florida Gators weren't the only victim of Saturday's Georgia-Florida game at EverBank Field.

  • 10/31/2011 - 94-Year-Old named Georgia's 'Realtor of the Year'
  • Columbus salesman named Georgia's Realtor of the Year after 64 years in the business.

  • 10/28/2011 - Businesswoman Georgia Manesiotis' life filled with community service
  • Georgia Manesiotis was considered a role model when it came to advocating programs that improved her Ross community and that energized young people to become stewards of the future.

  • 10/24/2011 - Pay mortgage with 401(k) funds?
  • A proposal by two Georgia congressmen to let homeowners take money from retirement accounts to pay down mortgages could help some avoid foreclosures but is drawing fire for encouraging risky financial behavior.

  • 10/23/2011 - Paying mortgage with retirement money touted, criticized
  • A proposal by two Georgia congressmen to let homeowners take money from retirement accounts to pay down mortgages could help some avoid foreclosures but is drawing fire for encouraging risky financial behavior.

  • 10/22/2011 - Four More Banks Closed, 84 Shuttered This Year
  • The economy claimed four more banks late Friday, with Feds shutting down lending institutions in Georgia, Florida and Colorado. According to Bloomberg News, the lenders "collapsed under the weight of bad loans tied to real estate." Community Banks of Colorado, the largest of the four shut lenders, was quickly acquired by Bank Midwest of Kansas City.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on ...

  • 10/21/2011 - Ex-FirstCity Chief Conner Pleads Guilty to Bilking His Failed Georgia Bank
  • The former chief executive officer of Georgia’s failed FirstCity Bank admitted to conspiring to deceive his own bank into lending him millions of dollars.

  • 10/21/2011 - FDIC closes four banks. Annual total: 84 so far.
  • FDIC seizes banks in Georgia, Florida, and Colorado. At this point last year, the FDIC had shuttered 139 banks.

  • 10/20/2011 - Police arrest, accuse man of "paper terrorism"
  • FANNIN COUNTY, Ga. — A north Georgia man is under arrest, accused of threatening several public officials through what law enforcement officers call "paper terrorism."

  • 10/17/2011 - Bank Failures Zoom to 80
  • Bank failures continue with no end in sight. Last Friday, U.S. regulators closed down four more banks in Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Illinois.

  • 10/17/2011 - REIT buys 2 centers
  • Phillips Edison - ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc., the Blue Ash-based real estate investment trust, said Monday it acquired two shopping centers in Georgia and South Carolina for about $15.2 million.

  • 10/17/2011 - INTERVIEW-Georgian tycoon takes on Saakashvili
  • TBILISI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is quitting business to enter politics, says he will win next year's parliamentary election and is ready to repair ties with Russia that were damaged by the war in 2008.

  • 10/17/2011 - Georgian tycoon takes on Saakashvili
  • TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is quitting business to enter politics, says he will win next year's parliamentary election and is ready to repair ties with Russia that were damaged by the war in 2008.