Monthly Archives: February 2013

House Hunt: Three Open Houses This Weekend

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There are three open houses scheduled for the weekend of Feb. 2-3 in the Malvern area, according to the listings on AOL Real Estate. 675 Sugartown Road in Malvern is a five bedroom, four bath home listed at $675,000. 28 Ashtree Lane in Malvern is a three bedroom, three bath townhome.  It is listed for $449,900. 226 Josephs Way in Malvern is a townhome with three bedrooms, three baths and it is listed for $$204,000. For complete information on all of the area's open houses, check the listings Read more [...]

Ruhl & Ruhl posts record year in home sales

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A long-awaited turnaround in the Quad-City region’s housing market helped lift Ruhl Ruhl Realtors to a record year for home sales in 2012 — just as the family-owned company celebrated its sesquicentennial.“Nice way to end our 150th birthday year,” Caroline Ruhl, the company’s president, said of a year that produced record sales volume, revenues and number of properties sold.The year-end results were announced Friday during the company’s annual awards brunch at the Quad-Cities Read more [...]

ECB, BoE Decisions In Focus: Economic Events For Feb 4-8

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In the U.S., the focus will be on factory orders, revisions to the durable-goods report, the January’s Institute for Supply Management nonmanufacturing report, and the balance-of-trade report. Across the Atlantic Ocean, the key euro-zone event will be the European Central Bank interest-rate announcement and related press conference Thursday. Against the background of better economic prospects and further financial stabilization, economists expect the ECB’s Governing Council Read more [...]

Listed LBO Firms Start 2013 with a Bang

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Marking portfolios to market is now paying off for private equity firms. Large-cap LBO shops’ stocks have soared so far in 2013. Blackstone kicked off PE’s annual earnings season with figures that pleased its bosses. On an earnings call on January 31, Blackstone president Tony James said that thanks in part to a metric called economic net income, “2012 is the best year we’ve had since going public� in 2007. James attributed the firm’s success—the Read more [...]

Some Homes Open over Superbowl Weekend

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Click through the image gallery to see which local homes are holding open houses on Saturday and/or Sunday (unless otherwise noted). Days, times and prices are listed below each photograph. If you would like your weekend open houses to appear on East Greenwich Patch, please post them on the Rhode Island State-Wide MLS or e-mail a photo and details to eg.calendareditor@gmail.com by noon the Thursday before. Open houses on East Greenwich Patch’s House Hunt are arranged by price from lowest to highest, Read more [...]

Remix Your Weekend: DC Meat week, events, and concert listings

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Vox presents the revamped Remix Your Weekend, an end-of-week events listing for Georgetown and the greater District. See full listings after the jump. This week, Vox‘s featured event is D.C Meat Week. Going forward, sporting events will also be listed. Featured Event: D.C. Meat Week 2013“Eat Meat. Repeat” is the slogan of this week-long nationwide event that features seven different barbecue restaurants in eight nights, from Jan. 27 through Feb. 3. This weekend’s events include BBQ Food Read more [...]

11 Olmsted Rd. Listed at $2695000.

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Realtors, this is your space. Upload photos of the houses you're showing this weekend and enter the property's details in the caption. Selling your Brookline, Fenway-Kenmore, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale or West Roxbury place without a Realtor? Consider yourself invited to add your photos and details into the mix. Please upload one photo per open house listing and include the following information in the captions of all photos: Address Date and time of the open house Type of housing (condo, single Read more [...]

IPOs outperform already listed stocks

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Share prices of companies undertaking initial public offerings on London’s main market have outperformed the FTSE 100, according to Deloitte. The business advisory group’s IPO Barometer showed the share price of 10 company IPOs, brought to market between January 2011 and December 2012, rose on average by 18.4 per cent above their listing price by the end of last year, compared with the FTSE 100, which moved up just 2.2 per cent. The findings come following a series of dismal IPOs led by Facebook’s Read more [...]

ICG-Longbow hits target with LSE listed real estate debt fund

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Investor interest in listed real estate in 'structural decline' 25 Jan 2013 Singapore sovereign fund to provide junior debt in UK mortgage JV 29 Jan 2013 German investor seeks manager for $30m real estate securities mandate 29 Jan 2013 US adviser brings mezzanine to German market 31 Jan 2013 'Quality' secondary property outperforming short-lease prime 31 Jan 2013 Fees prompt infrastructure investors to go direct 31 Jan 2013 Market will 'punish' REITs that fail to focus on asset quality 29 Jan Read more [...]

Real estate group Point 2 Cuba lists homes for sale in Cuba

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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Havana Journal is proud to post this exclusive interview with the co-founder of a new real estate group in Havana, Point 2 Cuba. Point 2 Cuba was created by a group of young entrepreneurs following the changes in real estate law in Cuba in November 2011 that legalized the sale and purchase of real estate for Cuban citizens. The group is based in Cuba with a focus on real estate for sale in Havana, Matanzas and Varadero and have a number of Cuban real estate Read more [...]