Accountant lists River Forest 4BD

Raymond E. Kivett has listed for sale a four-bedroom, three-bath home at 543 Forest Ave. in River Forest for $599,000.The 2,151-square-foot house was built in 1888 in South Central/Keystone Field. Mari Hans of Prudential Premier Realty, LLC is the listing agent.Kivett is a certified public accountant who works as the chief investment officer at American Realty Advisers, a real estate investment management firm. Previously, he was the executive vice president and chief investment officer of Ridge Read more [...]

iPad 2 Rumours – Vibrating Motor? LCD For Sale? White iPad?

So it’s the start of a new week, and yet again we have even more iPad 2 rumours. This website called GlobalDirectParts who offer product parts replacements (including a number of Apple products)  have some rather interesting products for sale. One of the parts is listed under the name iPad 2 LCD Screen selling for $218.19, however it just happens to be ‘Out of Stock’. This product is said to have been uploaded some time this weekend, and just for sake of comparison, this company are Read more [...]

Maitland 4BD listed for $1.745M [more]

The estate of John H. Quinn has listed for sale a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath at 742 Fairoaks Lane in Maitland for $1.745 million. Scott Hillman of Fannie Hillman Associates is the listing agent. The 5,162-square-foot home in East of Orlando Ave. was built in 1968. It is located in the Fairoaks subdivision. Quinn was a commercial real estate broker. He also served the United States Air Force, in post war Korea. He graduated from Florida State University, where he earned his B.S. degree in economics Read more [...]

BIR to raise taxes on stock market transactions

BIR to raise taxes on stock market transactions by Jenniffer B. Austria The Bureau of Internal Revenue will start imposing higher taxes on sales of stock of listed companies with a public float of less than 20 percent. BIR Commissioner Kim Jacinto Henares informed the Securities and Exchange Commission in a letter that the revenue-collecting agency would strictly impose the final tax of 5 percent on net capital gains from the sale of up to P100,000 worth of stocks or 10 percent for the sale Read more [...]

ONGC Appoints Investment Banks for Share Sale

BY ERIC YEP MUMBAI -- State-run Oil Natural Gas Corp. has appointed six investment bank for its share sale in March as India's federal government proceeds with divesting a 5% stake in the country's largest oil explorer by volume. The six bankers short-listed are JM Financial Services Pvt., Morgan Stanley, HSBC, Nomura, Citigroup and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ONGC Chairman R.S. Sharma said Monday. "The list of bankers is subject to confirmation and certain validation checks," Read more [...]

Rich list member Paul Lederer set to float Primo Smallgoods

Australia's IPO market looks certain to get off to a good start in 2011 with news that rich list member Paul Lederer is set to float his company Primo Smallgoods in a deal that is reported to value the company between $700-800 million. Lederer and his family, who founded the business in 1985, own 70% of the business. Paul Lederer, who inherited his stake in the company from his uncle Andrew, who died in 2004, is listed on the BRW Rich 200 with a fortune of $344 million. According to a report in Read more [...]

PetroVietnam awarded in top firms list

PetroVietnam awarded in top firms list HCM City — The Viet Nam Report Joint Stock Company (Viet Nam Report) officially announced the top 500 Vietnamese companies of 2010 (VNR500). The winners were presented with awards in HCM City last Saturday. The Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) topped the list of five largest State-owned enterprises, followed by the Viet Nam National Petroleum Corporation Read more [...]

HSBC, Standard Chartered ready for corporate race to list in Shanghai

Shanghai's stock exchange will offer 24-hour trading, negating the time difference with New York. Picture by AFP Source: The Australian HSBC and Standard Chartered are leading a pack of bankers raring to go as non-Chinese companies eye the prize of an IPO in Shanghai. More than one dozen global corporate titans are ready for the dash to become the first non-Chinese company to list on the Shanghai Read more [...]

An unwelcome development

''You cannot remove Part 3A without introducing alternative arrangements for state and regionally significant development. It is inconceivable that any government would wash its hands of projects important to either the state, or a region within it,'' Gadiel says. In the vacuum of opposition policy, with a system that even the Planning Institute of Australia says is not achieving its objectives, what is the answer to the state's planning mess? The councils want planning powers back, and say that Read more [...]

Australian houses are not overvalued, prices should rise over next 12-18 …

A new report from ANZ claims residential properties aren't overvalued and has taken aim at traditional methods of evaluating affordability, including price-to-income ratios, saying they don't take into account more complicated and less-quantifiable factors including historic declines in interest rates. Senior economist Ange Montalti also says the current short-term trends affecting housing prices, including a decline in demand and the lack of first-home buyer stimulus, won't last for more than Read more [...]