“Cash For Clunkers” Predicts a Cloudy 2010 Housing Market

“Can’t Believe You Still Have a Job” Award of 2009: Obama’s “Cash for Clunkers” sales forecasting team. As they projected a total 7-week program amount of $1B, they ran out of money before the first week was out and had to go begging Congress for $2B more. If “prognosticatin’” is your game, and you’re off by that much, you probably need to find a new job- you just ain’t that good at it.

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Hanoi real estate projects ‘burst open’ (Vietnam Net)

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi ’s real estate market has awakened after two months of hibernation by the news that the capital city will have five satellite urban areas. Additionally, the demise of gold trading floors has brought more capital to the real estate market.

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West Palm Beach Real Estate Finding The Perfect Property For A Worth Investment (Turks.US)

West Palm Beach real estate properties are the best investment that you could have. It is simply because the locations and residential units in West Palm Beach are in good value.

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Brookfield Real Estate boosts Q4 profit, royalties (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

TORONTO - Brookfield Real Estate Services Fund (TSX:BRE.UN) says its net income increased to $1.5 million in the fourth quarter, about seven times higher than it was a year earlier, as the royalties it received from brokerages rose nearly 10 per cent.

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Report: Citigroup to sell real estate division (EARTHtimes.org)

New York - US financial conglomerate Citigroup Inc has agreed to sells its real estate division, City Property Investors, to the US-based private equity investor Apollo Management LP, according to reports Wednesday. Apollo stands to acquire 65 real e…

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Brookfield Real Estate boosts Q4 profit, royalties (Canadian Business)

TORONTO - Brookfield Real Estate Services Fund (TSX:BRE.UN) says its net income increased to $1.5 million in the fourth quarter, about seven times

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Apollo Said to Buy Citi’s Real Estate Unit (New York Times)

Apollo Management agreed to buy Citigroup ’s real estate investment unit in a move that will more than triple the value of the private-equity firm’s property assets, a person with knowledge of the deal told Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

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Real estate agent wins appeal (Stuff)

Welllington real estate agent Tim Whitehead has won a “discharge without conviction” by appealing to the High Court over his landmark convictions for misleading home buyers.

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Appeal allowed for real estate agent (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News)

A Wellington real estate agent has been discharged without conviction, nearly six years after misleading a buyer on price.

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Attorney Richard D. Vetstein’s The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog Cracks Top 100 List (redOrbit)

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 9 /PRNewswire/ — The nationally acclaimed The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog created by real estate attorney Richard D.

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