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Hawaii Real Estate Paradise Returns With Goldman Loan: Mortgages

Hawaii, buffeted in the aftermath of the U.S. recession and Japan’s tsunami, is benefiting from a travel rebound that’s sent tourism revenue to a record and spurred real estate investments across the islands. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) last month … Continue reading

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Home Builders Bullish for Fifth Straight Month

The nation’s once-beleaguered home builders are more confident than they have been in six years. A surge in new orders for homes, especially among the big public builders, pushed builder sentiment on an industry survey up three points to the … Continue reading

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Cantor Commercial Real Estate Builds Its West Coast Operations

NEW YORK, July 30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Cantor Commercial Real Estate (CCRE) announced that Kenneth Margala, previously an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank, has joined as a Director and will be focused on loan origination. Based in Newport Beach, … Continue reading

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Akin, Gump, Steptoe, Gibson Dunn: Business of Law

John Dowd, a combative ex-Marine who cursed at a cameraman after court one day, was the lawyer Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam selected for his trial last year on insider-trading charges. The jury, citing overwhelming evidence, voted to convict. … Continue reading

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Mortgage Applications Point to Higher Priced Homes

A response to a recent RealtyCheck blog on home prices included the following: “Someone needs to explain to Ms. Olick what these “price declines” really represent because they most assuredly do not measure how much home values have changed. They … Continue reading

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Job gains seen in suffering ‘sand states’

All four states are tourism and retirement meccas. They’re benefiting as the housing crisis eases, Americans travel more amid the improving economy, and the flow of retirees to Sunbelt states picks up modestly after slowing to a trickle in the … Continue reading

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States Hardest Hit by Housing Lead Jobs Recovery

Enlarge image California Jobs David Paul Morris/Bloomberg An employee at Green Toys Inc. in San Carlos, California, on Oct. 26, 2011. An employee at Green Toys Inc. in San Carlos, California, on Oct. 26, 2011. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Enlarge … Continue reading

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States Hardest Hit By Housing Collapse Lead US Jobs Recovery

(Bloomberg News) The states that were most hurt in the real estate collapse over the past five years — Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada — are now leading the U.S. labor market expansion. The four states added 222,100 jobs from … Continue reading

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States Hardest Hit by Housing Lead Jobs Recovery

The states that were most hurt in the real estate collapse over the past five years — Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada — are now leading the U.S. labor market expansion. The four states added 222,100 jobs from August through … Continue reading

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Breaking up a family empire

TransUnion: Chicago-based credit reporting agency with information on roughly 500 million consumers and businesses worldwide. Sale history: Nov. 25, 2008: Pritzkers sell some stock back to the company for $398.1 million. Dec. 17, 2009: Pritzkers sell additional stock back to … Continue reading

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