02/10/2012 - Washington: Sales of homes up but prices down
Sales of existing homes in Washington rose in the final quarter to 2011, but prices continued to drop.A report by the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Washington said the rise ...
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02/08/2012 - CoStar Group's Property and Portfolio Research Division Appoints Mark Berry as Senior CRE Strategist
WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, Inc. , commercial real estate's leading provider of information and analytic services, announced today that Mark Berry has joined its Property and Portfolio Research (PPR) division ...
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02/07/2012 - Fannie Mae Expands Online Offers for HomePath® Properties
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fannie Mae announced the expansion of its Online Offers system to collect and manage real estate purchase offers for Fannie Mae-owned properties across the ...
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02/03/2012 - Bernstein Management Announces New Leadership for 2012
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Management Corporation, a regional leader in real estate management and investment since 1953, announced today several executive level promotions. The ...
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02/03/2012 - The Hottest U.S. Real Estate Markets: Washington, D.C.
The nation's capital has been a leader when it comes to real estate. While much of the country's housing market continues to languish, Washington D.C. and the surrounding area have seen tight inventory and price growth in recent months.
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02/02/2012 - Washington’s hottest neighborhoods
A new report out Thursday from Trulia , the real estate listings web site, has identified the Washington area Zip codes that are getting the most Web traffic among locals. Read full article >>
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02/02/2012 - President of Buyer's Edge Responds to Washington DC's #3 Ranking for Real Estate Investment in AFIRE's 2012 Annual ...
Results from AFIRE's Annual Foreign Investment Survey ranked Washington DC #3 in top U.S. cities for real estate investment. According to Buyer's Edge President, Steve Israel, there are several compelling reasons why Washington DC area real estate is a good investment for foreign and U.S. investors alike. A highly educated and constant workforce, high level of income per capita and the ...
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02/02/2012 - Property Group Partners Selects Cassidy Turley as Exclusive Leasing Agent for I-395 Air Rights Development in ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cassidy Turley , a leading commercial real estate services provider in the U.S., announced today that it has been selected by Property Group Partners to provide ...
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01/31/2012 - Louis G. Christopher Joins CBRE as Vice Chairman
WASHINGTON, DC- CBRE has made a key appointment to its management team: real estate broker Louis G. Christopher has joined the firm as vice chairman. His role at CBRE will be to focus on tenant representation on a local, national and global level.
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01/30/2012 - Patrick M. Mahady Joins Cassidy Turley's Government Services Group in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cassidy Turley , a leading commercial real estate services provider in the U.S., announced today that Patrick Mahady has joined the company's Government Services ...
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01/29/2012 - Carlyle Raises $37 Million for Open-ended Europe Real Estate Fund - cbl
By Bill Murphy WASHINGTON - Carlyle Europe Real Estate Master Co-Investment III-U LP, an investment ...
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01/28/2012 - Agency aims to clarify closing fees
WASHINGTON -- The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a real estate issue that gets to the core of the agency's purpose: bringing clarity and better disclosures about the fees that home buyers, sellers, and refinancers are hit with at closings.
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01/27/2012 - Elite Wall Street Donations Jumped 700% in the Last 20 Years
Banks "frankly own the place," Sen. Dick Durbin famously said of Washington during the debate over financial regulation in 2010. And when it comes to total contributions for big donors, you can ...
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01/21/2012 - Klemm takes home five-star award
Klemm Real Estate, which serves Litchfield County and has an office in Washington Depot, has received a five-star award for Best Real Estate Agency , USA.
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01/20/2012 - A look at the health of the housing market’s 1%
Washington Fine Properties is not a real estate agency for the masses. Half of the company’s business focuses on the upper end of the market, homes going for more than $1 million — the 1 percent, if you will. Read full article >>
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01/19/2012 - WSU real estate research operations relocate to UW
Glenn Crellin, who until recently was the director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research, at Washington State University, has accepted a staff position at the University of Washington and has moved his research operations to the West Side.
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01/13/2012 - Pebblebrook Secures $46M Loan on Hotel Monaco
WASHINGTON, DC- Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has secured a $46 million non-recourse loan through Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers , a top commercial real estate lender. The loan has a fixed interest rate of 4.36% with a term of five years.
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01/12/2012 - New beginning for top Scranton real estate firm
As the tarp was pulled from a familiar disc on the corner of Spruce Street and Washington Avenue in Scranton, a once-troubled real estate agency was reborn as the Realty Network Group. The 22-agent firm has emerged from financial crisis and scandal unde
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01/10/2012 - December NFIB business optimism survey edged up
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Small businesses grew more confident in the economy's future in December, marking a fourth straight month of improvement on a more optimistic outlook for business conditions and real estate gains, a survey released on Tuesday showed. The National Federation of Independent Business said its Small Business Optimism Index rose 1.8 points to 93.8. Eight of the index's 10 ...
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01/06/2012 - NAI Hunneman brokers $4m sale of Foxborough industrial property
Commercial real estate firm NAI Hunneman said it has brokered the $4 million sale of 1000 Washington St. in Foxborough to a real estate affiliate of Motorcycles of Manchester.
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01/06/2012 - US Economy Adds 200,000 Jobs In December
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01/03/2012 - Marr: DC Law Firms Take Portfolio Approach to Real Estate
WASHINGTON, DC-Top tier law firms in the DC area—that is, firms that can be found on the Am Law 100 —have largely recovered from 2009, CBRE’s newly appointed vice chairman Pat Marr, tells GlobeSt.com.
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01/02/2012 - AFIRE: FIRPTA Could Make a Difference
WASHINGTON, DC-To read the newly-released annual Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate survey, one could easily conclude that the luster of the US real estate market is fading for many foreign investors—although not to the point where any one market could conceivably grab the top spot from the US.
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01/02/2012 - DC Loses Sheen with Foreign Investors
WASHINGTON, DC-Most—60%, to be exact—of respondents to the annual Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate survey say they will increase their investments in the US this year as the country is still deemed a top market for capital market appreciation.
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12/31/2011 - It really is a buyer's market because fewer are selling
WASHINGTON - Where do you side in the great real estate buy-sell divide of 2012? If you're a homeowner considering...
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12/30/2011 - Homeowners slow to accept lower sale values, study shows
WASHINGTON - Where do you side in the great real estate buy-sell divide of 2012? If you're a homeowner considering selling sometime in the new year, are you apprehensive that you won't get the price you need or want, and therefore it's possible you won't even try to sell?
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12/29/2011 - Cover story: Ringing out the year on a positive note
Somewhat surprisingly, 2011 turned out to be a good year for the Washington-area real estate market. Buyers were more active than they have been in five years, and the backlog of unsold homes fell to its lowest point in seven years. "It has been a really positive year, continually outpacing ...
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12/26/2011 - Diane Mastrull: From T-shirts to real estate to hair weaves, he has a head for business
In a North Philadelphia salon, Steven Washington, a big man with closely cropped hair that gets cut weekly, was going on about the attributes of long locks.
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12/23/2011 - Washington DC Real Estate Market, Economy Among Strongest in Country
The U.S. Congress is a masterpiece of dysfunction, but it's surrounded by perhaps the highest-functioning metro area in the nation. Washington, D.C., is the richest city in the country. It's the best-educated, too.
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12/22/2011 - UDR, Kuwait Finance Buy DC Apartment for $154M
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12/21/2011 - UDR Announces $154 Million Joint Venture Acquisition in Washington, D.C.
UDR, Inc. , a leading multifamily real estate investment trust, announced today that its joint venture with Kuwait Finance House has acquired 1301 Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C.
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12/21/2011 - UPDATE -- Rene Circ Joins CoStar Group's Property and Portfolio Research Division as Director of Research - Industrial
WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, Inc. , commercial real estate's leading provider of information and analytic services, is pleased to announce that Rene Circ has joined its Property and Portfolio Research (PPR) ...
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12/21/2011 - Rene Circ Joins CoStar Group's Property and Portfolio Research Division as Director of Research
WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, Inc. , commercial real estate's leading provider of information and analytic services, is pleased to announce that Rene Circ has joined its Property and Portfolio Research (PPR) ...
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12/19/2011 - Townhouse Restaurant & Wine Bar Leases at 700 Sixth Street
WASHINGTON , Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Akridge and USAA Real Estate Company announced today that Townhouse Restaurant & Wine Bar is coming to the ground floor retail space at 700 Sixth Street, NW, ...
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12/19/2011 - Can Foreign Investors Save DC?
WASHINGTON, DC-The timing is almost perfect: close to three weeks before the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate is set to release its annual report on foreign investment in the US real estate sector, news is emerging that Rockefeller Group closed on its bid to purchase 1100 First St., NE from Tishman Speyer, on behalf of Mitsubishi, for $180 million.
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12/19/2011 - WRE Named Top 10 REIT at Dividend Channel With 6.48% Yield
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: WRE) has been named as a Top 10 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent 'DividendRank' report. The report noted that among REITs, WRE shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. [...]
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12/15/2011 - EDENS Purchases Jenkins Row in Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON , Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EDENS, one of the nation's leading retail real estate owners and developers, announced today that it has purchased Jenkins Row in the heart of one of Washington ...
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12/12/2011 - Moody's may cut Spanish bank ratings
WASHINGTON: Ratings agency Moody's warned Monday it might cut the ratings of a number of Spanish banks, citing both their real estate exposure and weaker ability to generate earnings.
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12/12/2011 - CoStar Signs Corporate Real Estate Firm UGL Services to Multi-Year Agreement
WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, Inc. , commercial real estate's leading provider of information and analytic services, today announced that UGL Services, a global corporate real estate firm focusing exclusively ...
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12/12/2011 - Buy Part of This Bar/Coffeeshop/Restaurant/Hardware Store
On Friday evening, in a gutted building at 1351 H Street NE, Washington witnessed the beginning of a real estate revolution. Or at least, that's what the Miller brothers are telling people.
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12/08/2011 - Joseph E. Robert Jr., Washington philanthropist, dies of brain cancer at age 59
Joseph E. Robert Jr., who rose from a troubled childhood to become one of Washington's wealthiest financiers and most generous philanthropists, known for his raucous annual “Fight Night” boxing event that raised millions of dollars for children's charities, died late Wednesday at age 59. He had a glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. Read full article >>
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12/08/2011 - GBI Launches Guiding Principles Program
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12/05/2011 - Obama Investing $4 Billion in Greener CRE
WASHINGTON, DC-The Obama Administration committed approximately $4 billion in funding from federal and private organizations to create more sustainable, energy efficient spaces in commercial real estate as an expansion of the Better Buildings Initiative unveiled back in February.
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12/05/2011 - Donald Trump GOP Debate Draws Objections From Karl Rove, Other Republicans
WASHINGTON -- Real estate giant Donald Trump says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney "doesn't get the traction" he needs to nail down the Republican presidential nomination.
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11/29/2011 - WRE Trading 6.5% Below Director's Recent Buy Price
There's an old saying on Wall Street about insider buying: there are many possible reasons to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy. Back on August 11, Washington Real Estate Investment Trust's Director, Edward S. Civera, invested $224,240.00 into 8,000 shares of WRE, for a cost per [...]
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11/28/2011 - Growth in Commercial Real Estate Markets Expected in 2012
WASHINGTON, DC-- - Commercial real estate markets have been relatively flat this year, but improving fundamentals mean a more positive trend is expected in 2012, according to the National Association of ...
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11/25/2011 - Supreme Court to decide whether lawsuits require harm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a dispute pitting big business against consumer groups, the Supreme Court hears arguments Monday on whether a person has to suffer legal harm to sue a company over an alleged kickback it got. Cleveland home buyer Denise Edwards sued her title insurance company under a 1974 federal real estate settlement law that bars kickbacks and certain referral fee arrangements. At ...
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11/18/2011 - Why Washington Real Estate Investment Trust Is a Top 10 REIT Stock With 6.28% Yield (WRE)
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: WRE) has been named as a Top 10 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent 'DividendRank' report. The report noted that among REITs, WRE shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at ...
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11/15/2011 - SBA-Proposed Size Standard Increases for Real Estate and Educational Services Industries Reflect Marketplace Changes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Proposed rules published today for comment in The Federal Register by the U.S. Small Business Administration would adjust the size definition of small businesses in 29 industries in one sub-industry in two broad categories of businesses, ranging from real estate and property management to colleges, junior colleges and universities.
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11/16/2011 - CoStar Group Completes Integration of CoStar Data Into Property & Portfolio Research (PPR) Analytics
WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, Inc. , commercial real estate's leading provider of information and analytic services, today announced it has completed the integration of CoStar's comprehensive commercial ...
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