Dhaka, Apr 11 (bdnews24.com) — The stocks probe committee has listed the names of 50 brokerage houses, who sold the highest amount of shares between October last year and January this year. The committee, headed by Khondker Ibrahim Khaled, has drawn up the list based on the data collected from the surveillance software of the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). However, the brokerage houses listed in the report Read more [...]

<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 13-->There is a shadow cast across the real estate market today in the form of real estate owned, or REO, properties that have accumulated in the wake of the foreclosure crisis.REO is the term used for properties that are owned by a lender, in most cases a bank, after a property goes to foreclosure auction and the minimum bid is not met.The mortgage crisis coupled with the recession meant banks became landlords as their inventory of properties grew exponentially.Bank-owned Read more [...]

Click photo to enlargeThe median price of a previously owned single-family home in America today is $157,000. What can you get for that in the Bay Area?Headaches, mostly.Here, where the median is nearly three times higher than the national, $157,000 will get you a 460-square-foot house in East Palo Alto that would fit inside a Saratoga walk-in closet. Or a two-bedroom in Antioch with mold, a squatter's mattress in the kitchen, the oily remnants of an amateur grease-monkey operation out back, and Read more [...]