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We are thrilled to be working with Window Rock with and after our recent Columbus deal, we have first hand knowledge they are honest and sincere about developing profitable real estate projects.

We're watching the market carefully for any signs of a turn, for any signs of the 'bursting bubble' that some analysts have been predicting. So far we're not seeing anything other than the normal incremental changes you would expect in the ebb and flow of a real estate cycle.

Utilities and real estate are pretty narrow sectors. And real estate has had such a run, I would be hesitant to add more at this point. So I generally recommend diversified dividend plays.

Today the development has gained momentum as is evident from the jump in real estate prices.

Three hundred to 400 jobs were promised here. Where's the baker, (the) candlestick maker, grocery store, doctor, dentist, real estate agent? Where is all the new development?

Today's real estate industry is very competitive and includes several different models, from full service down to limited service. The consumer needs to ask the right questions in order to engage in a healthy and informative conversation with potential sales associates.

Under Texas law, the proceeds from most retirement plans are typically not subject to the claims of the decedent's creditors unless the decedent has designated his or her estate as the beneficiary of the plan.

We have a very constructive view on China: We like the economic story and we like the real estate story. We have a very deep pipeline and there are a lot of things going on. I wouldn't be surprised if we invest this year as much capital in China as we do in Japan.

The Premier Office award recognizes both achievement and teamwork and is the most impressive designation awarded to individual Coldwell Banker offices. Glenn Little, Principal Broker/Owner of Coldwell Banker Miller's Real Estate Services, Inc. has established a standard of excellence for offices throughout the Coldwell Banker system.

The problem is they still haven't got the whole thing together online. When it comes to real estate ads, they still haven't got an offer together where ads go online and in the newspaper.

The quarter was challenging. With total ad revenue up only 1 percent, and with the persistence of the soft revenue patterns across the industry for many months now (employment and real estate excepted), we continue to look to the second half for improvement.

The quality of the professors was tremendous. They provided practical advice and insights from real world experiences that you can't find in a textbook. I'm involved in real estate and I learned a lot about investments to pursue and, more importantly, investments to avoid.

We all need to recognize that having a tour event at a destination, whether you're trying to sell real estate or trying to combine a resort and a membership situation ... it's a great thing. It's something everybody wants to have.

Those are real estate taxes you are talking about.

Title companies, mortgage brokers and real estate agents would love to have these leads and we can segregate them (according to area and other variables) based on the dynamics of the call.

We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale, ... Henry's belongings were dispersed.

This national alliance with Spot Runner is another example of our strategy to equip our real estate brand affiliates and our company-owned brokerage operations with the latest in technology and marketing tools that help set them apart from the competition.

Tommy Hilfiger came in and created 300 shops. Now every one of the department store anchors has a Tommy shop and a Liz shop. It gave vendors more control, and it also was a real estate grab. There was no real defined reason to go to Marshall Field's because it has X, X and X that Carson's doesn't have.

The rapid growth in loans and prices of assets such as real estate and stocks is a concern. The central bank may raise interest rates. It's better to err on the side of caution.

Today's Bay Area real estate market has all the characteristics of a relatively normal balanced market. We knew the year-ago numbers were unsustainably strong. Right now it looks like current trends will last well into 2006, with strong, but not record-breaking sales, and continued appreciation.

We'd like to see a firm decision made to protect one of the largest pieces of conservation land in Florida. This is not just another ripe piece of real estate to put a highway through.

We want to continue getting out of the real estate business and more into the fee business.

We were able to split our businesses. We'll take real estate and Jerry will take sports.

The expectation was that real estate agents would go away once consumers could see all the home listing information, but the number of real estate agents has increased, not decreased, in the last 10 years.

Wall Street figured out that, with the amount of money they could make off timber harvests, relative to the rapid increase in land prices, the return on investment isn't enough. It's become more important as a real estate investment than as a forest-management investment.

Welcome Terry to the world of home ownership. Welcome to the world of mortgage payments and real estate taxes.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

This report exposes one of the biggest con jobs in recent history. This long-running, secretive campaign funded by some of the country's wealthiest families has relied on deception to bamboozle the public not only about who must pay the estate tax, but about how repealing it will affect the country.

This relationship with Cendant is a tremendous opportunity for Spot Runner to put the power of television advertising into the hands of hundreds of thousands of real estate brokers and sales associates. This is an important step towards furthering our mission to break down the barriers that have previously prevented local businesses from using television as part of their marketing arsenal.

We're reviewing all the estate planning work, because some things will have to change now. If they had a partnership agreement, it's contract law, but when you marry you have to adhere to marriage laws, ... With a marriage, a spouse is entitled to a percentage of your assets, so we're counseling clients about prenuptial agreements before they get married; wills have to be redone; and we're putting money into budgets for weddings and honeymoons.

We think that cannot last. Real estate will go back to being a 'steady Eddy' that offers good current income.

We believe India presents an extremely compelling investment story and expect to be a long-term investor in the real estate sector. The residential market is attractive because of rapid urbanization, the availability of housing finance, and the strong growth of the consumer segment.

With borrowing costs on the rise and the wealth effect from real estate assets diminishing, something has to give.

Yet again Commerce One has snatched a piece of real estate from under the nose of Oracle. Oracle's performance in actually landing these (sites) has been, to date, underwhelming.

There are rumors that one or more private equity firms may take a stake in McDonald's in a play on their undervalued real estate holdings.

When you follow the demographic trends, there was a lot of business formation back in the middle-1940s continuing through the 1970s. Now transactions are being driven by ownership transitions or estate planning.

When you feel like your life is out of control, an organized, 'take charge' real estate agent may be just what you need to help make the most of your home sale.

There are leasing conferences held around the country every quarter at which mall representatives and national business representatives get together, ... The May conference, which was held in Las Vegas, drew 30,000 people. It's become a very sophisticated process. The tenants now have real estate brokers and lawyers who represent them. They want to get the most bang for their money.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

We are excited to provide this great real estate opportunity. We have had tremendous response so far and we look forward to working with other individuals that are looking to own a vacation home in the Caribbean.

We are excited. I never had any doubts, but in the real estate world, things can always go haywire.

We are excited about the rapid success of what started as a small real estate investment firm. Our goal is to continue growing throughout the Southeast and we truly feel that we have reached a benchmark in our industry now that we have surpassed 9 million square feet and nearly $1 billion in assets.

We are excited about the opportunity to work with Mammoth on their transformation into a world-class resort destination with a real estate component to match one of the continent's finest mountains,

The reason the recovery was so feeble was you still had these hangover effects from the real estate and banking sectors, ... Real estate was still reeling from excess capacity and the whole thrift industry had been decimated by bad loans.

The good news is that the demand fundamentals are likely to remain positive with good population growth, high rental yields and a new real estate law expected to be announced soon. Indeed, according to our new real estate index property prices rose 3.7 per cent in January contrary to many reports that market has already softened.

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it

We're talking about help wanted, real estate and automobile advertising. They've developed zoned advertising, the addition of color so they can retain their retail advertisers, as well as the addition of special sections. All of these factors have been very advantageous to them to develop advertising and also to retain advertisers and charge higher prices.

The government realized early last year that the cooling of the real estate market had led to less investment in upstream products such as steel and cement.

To quote General Patton, 'I don't like paying for the same real estate twice.' If it's not done, you say, 'This is not what we agreed on.'

We're suffering from our success as a great community. Our real estate prices are out of sight.

We will offer some insight on how the real estate process works.

We had to beg people 10 years ago to build something, ... I was a sleepy place. Today, downtown Gainesville is one of the hottest real estate markets in Alachua County.

Today, more so than ever before, real estate investors need to be able to locate and pursue hot property deals as soon as they become available, so they can get to these leads before their competition. By subscribing to our online service, investors gain 24/7 access to a vast reservoir of timely and accurate property leads in what is nowwith the addition of these five countiesa total of 29 Florida counties and six North Carolina counties, with more to be added in the near future.

You have a risk of problems occurring just by virtue of having people involved in the real estate brokerage business inside or outside the city. They may have to deal with brokers who are doing work inside the city.

You have all these dynamics that drive our specific market. Our economy is better, property taxes are lower, our schools are better -- all these things make our real estate market better than the national average.

With real estate prices sky-high, it?s hard to come and live here. It?s expensive, but a lot of (Hispanic) people know that with the rise in population, there?s a lot of opportunity to start a business, and they jump on the bandwagon.

When you lose more than 16 million square feet of real estate in half a day...there's obviously a very intense search going on in this city and throughout this region.

We show them how they can invest the money in real estate and earn 12 to 15 percent, through us. We typically buy a house that is 50 to 60 percent undervalued, put some money into it and sell it for 100 percent of its real value.

We see in real estate right now customers are beginning to take control and habits will start to change.

We feel pretty good about the real estate market right now.

We do see a lot of earnings acceleration in Japan in a couple of sectors in particular. We've got good exposure to Japanese retailers, good exposure to Japanese real estate companies.

This new mega-concept of advertising through pixel ad space is very quickly becoming an artistic and commercial discussion platform destined to have its own place in World Wide Web history. Your advertisement will not only occupy a prime piece of cyberspace real estate for the next three years, but, it will also be replicated on t-shirts, postcards, mouse pads, coffee mugs lithographs and even a book.

This new co-investment program expands our capability to serve Corporate America's industrial real estate needs with increased net lease investment capacity. Our national platform and customer franchise enable us to identify quality industrial properties leased by established tenants suitable for this program.

We should be looking at this from a surgical point of view. A lot of people who think they would like to repeal the estate tax should put it in the context of fiscal policy. We'll have a huge hole in the federal treasury.

War gets people thinking about mortality even if they aren't going to be doing any fighting themselves. Now's a good time to look at whether you have the right life insurance coverage and to make sure your estate plan is in order.

Bob brings with him nearly 20 years of hospitality real estate brokerage experience to PKF and adds significant bench strength to our firm. He has in-depth knowledge of West Coast hotel real estate in general and California specifically. Combined with our PKF Consulting practices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, we believe that PKF will have a substantial competitive advantage in the hotel brokerage community.

Everybody would like to have real estate tax reduction including myself and the school board members,

As the night progressed, ... I noticed that every 50-something guest felt obligated to pull Leslie aside and offer advice. The doctors named the tests and procedures she should have done. The lawyers advised her about tax and estate planning. The artists recommended exhibits to see or specific masterpieces to view. The professors encouraged her to read specific books, while the financial professionals scribbled stock tips on napkins and told her how to restructure her portfolio.

A site near the Bronx Psychiatric Center is under consideration, but no decisions have been made. We don't comment on real estate transactions until they're done.

At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.

At the time I first embarked in the business I was worth five thousand dollars in real estate which rented for enough to support my family.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Competition leads to higher prices, and rapid changes in real estate prices may result in an adverse correction. I am a bit concerned about the future. When interest rates go up, cash flow may shrink tremendously.

Currently, there is little or no overbuilding in any commercial real estate sector, and as the economy continues to grow and produce jobs, excess space is being absorbed, making occupancy rates rise. To build a building today costs materially more than six months ago or two years ago in most major cities.

Anna's Linen stores are mostly in what are called 'B' type locations or strip malls. We think that there's a lot of real estate currently available in that format. The other positive for the retailer is its appeal to ethnic communities, which we believe are underserved in the value-priced home furnishings arena.

Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions in the premium segments of their markets. We keep our shops small, with truly talented professionals who are choosing Engel & Volkers because of the extensive connections and support we provide them.

Engel & Volkers is unlike any other real estate company I have known and I am proud to be part of an organization that raises the bar to such high levels.

Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.

Eddy Arnold was a great friend of mine, and through the years, Eddy and I, we did a lot of shows together, and we even worked in some real estate transaction things together, and he helped me there. You know, he was a great real estate man.

Equity capital flows into real estate continue to be robust and investors are looking globally for investment opportunities. We are able to successfully identify and execute on opportunities that exist around the world based on our geographically diverse platform, our worldwide relationships with corporations and real estate companies, and our view that real estate market fundamentals continue to improve.

Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.

Estate planning is more than a financial and tax strategy. It also involves the personal side. In situations where individuals or couples have minor children, that's particularly important.

Estate agents have consistently reported increased buyer interest over the last few months, which should help to support the market going forward,

Estate agents are reporting increasing buyer interest and that buyers and sellers are reaching agreement on price more readily,

Florida's real estate market is just out of control right now.

Folks want to do everything they can to have great schools, everything they can to fix and enhance their neighborhoods. I think there was a very clear message that folks are worried about real estate taxes, and they want the council to take care of that and lower them.

First, none of our interpretative letters has anything to do with real estate brokerage.

There's some concern expansion in real estate loans may be curtailed by higher rates. There's a high correlation between banks and real estate stocks.

The residential real estate last year sold at auction, in live auction, was just over $14 billion.

There's no way to time the real estate market.

There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.

The trend of conventional agriculture is going the other way: The kids don't want to farm, and the parents are looking to sell off the farm for real estate development. But then you have this significant counter-movement of people giving up their keyboards to farm, professionals going back to the land, and younger people getting into organic farming.

I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last nail I called the real estate office.

the worldwide real estate bubble and its aftermath.

These settlements represent the latest in a series of achievements aimed at resolving significant claims in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. We are pleased that these settlements enable us to collect additional value for the creditors, and, at the same time, resolve claims against the estate so that we can accelerate distributions to all creditors.

These results will help to determine whether well and/or septic system construction and maintenance regulations or routine testing of private water systems during real estate transactions would be helpful in reducing contamination and health risks to rural homeowners. Also, the results may shed some light on the importance of routine maintenance of private water systems and septic systems in preventing contamination. Such information would be valuable for Master Well Owner Network volunteers and Cooperative Extension to educate homeowners about protection and management of private water systems.

These days, real estate is the hottest game to get into, and Tycoon City: New York offers everyone a chance to test their skills ? with no mortgage broker approval necessary! With over two dozen in-game partners, world-renowned landmarks and true-to-life neighborhoods, Tycoon City: New York puts players in the thick of the action in the world?s most exciting city.

The start of the calendar year is traditionally an exciting and busy time for estate agents in London as many City workers choose to spend their bonuses in the housing market. Although market growth has slowed since the property boom of recent years, property is still a smart place to invest money with plenty of exciting markets offering enticing returns.

The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum tax, it's not just Republican, it's bipartisan.