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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Scottish fact of the day: Edinburgh’s listed buildings
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As Housing Market Rebounds, Listing Prices Cut the Other Way
By Stefanos ChenThe end of the year typically represents prime time for savvy home buyers who pounce on last-ditch discounting by sellers. But in another sign that 2013 may be brighter for housing, price reductions on for-sale homes are getting harder to find in many markets.
Out of the 100 largest metro markets, 33.6% of homes for sale saw price drops from their original or recent listing price in the last six months, according to data to be released on Wednesday by home listing Read more [...]
Milwaukee-area home sales up 25 percent in 2012
Nearly 35 percent of the homes that sold in the Milwaukee area last year were in the $100,000-to-$200,000 range.
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ISU’s MLK Events Start Today
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AMES, Iowa -- Throughout the month of January, Iowa State University and the Ames community will observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday (Monday, Jan. 21) to honor the life of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights activist. All events listed below are free and open to the public.
"Let Freedom Ring" carillon concert
11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, central campus
Carilloneur Tin-Shi Tam will play the bells of Iowa State in a musical tribute to King. She Read more [...]
Housing Inventory Ends Year Down 17%
By Nick Timiraos
Interactive: Inventory and asking prices in major metro markets
The number of homes listed for sale at the end of 2012 stood at the lowest level in more than five years, a development that helps explain why home prices have rebounded so strongly over the past year.
The 1.57 million homes listed for sale at the end of December was down by 6.5% from November and by 17.3% from one year ago, according to data tracked by Realtor.com.
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Clear economic outlook boosts listed firms’ investment
As the macro economy is stabilizing and recovering, public companies are taking more proactive actions. On December 14, Renhe Pharmacy announced that its wholly-owned subsidiaries are planning to expand production capacity; on December 18, Yili announced its plans to build infant formula milk powder project in New Zealand; on the same day, many public companies, including NBTM, Taiji Industry, Xi'an Catering, Hualian, and Nanning Sugar Industry also made investment announcements; on December 19, Read more [...]
Condo sales have cooled in Toronto’s cautious housing market
21.8% – Decline in Toronto’s home sales in December from a year ago.How 2012 shaped upThe growth in Toronto’s home prices has been slowing. The average selling price in December was up by 6.5 per cent from a year ago, to $478,739. The average selling price for the whole year was up by almost 7 per cent to $497,298.
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Finance Minister Flaherty 'pleased' as Canada's housing market softens
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In Canada’s housing market, Calgary is a positive outlier
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Media Matters botches inaugural event story
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“Joseph Farah Pulled From Right-Wing Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast” – that was the humiliating headline of a report by Media Matters, claiming the founder and CEO of WND and WND Books had been “pulled” from this coming weekend’s Inaugural Prayer Breakfast.
However, the report from the leftwing media “watchdog” has been repudiated Read more [...]
Omatek Boss Calls for Regulators’ Patronage of Listed SMEs
Omatek MD, Mrs. Florence Seriki
Goddy Egene
Regulators in the Nigerian capital markets have been urged to patronise the products of listed small and medium scale enterprises as a way of encouraging more listings and boosting the performances of the companies.
The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Omatek Ventures Plc, Mrs. Florence Seriki, who made the call in Lagos last Monday, while speaking on the operations of the firm, noted that there were many small and medium Read more [...]