Terabitz Creates Digital Dashboard For Real Estate Transactions

Terabitz, new player in the online real estate world, is taking a new tact with it’s 10 million dollar financing package. The company has created a digital dashboard application to help manage all of the facets included in moving to a new home or apartment. Instead of being a one way data source, Terabitz is looking [...]

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More Action RE: Subprime Lending and Mortgage Regulation

At the end of June the five agencies that regulate federally chartered banks and their subsidiary lending corporations issued final guidance to those institutions regarding subprime lending, particularly the so-called exotic or non-traditional loans that are threatening to bring down those lenders who haven't already filed bankruptcy or shut their doors.

Also General Electric (GE) announced that it was getting out of the subprime mortgage business and that it has already rid itself of $3.7 billion in loans, about 75 percent of its total portfolio, to reduce its exposure to the volatile market...

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Trulia Powers Home Sale Data Online for MONEY Magazine?s Annual ?Best Places To Live? Feature

RISMEDIA, July 16, 2007??Trulia.com announced an agreement with CNNMoney.com, MONEY magazine’s online home, to furnish local home listings information for MONEY’s 2007 list of “America’s Best Places to Live,” due to be released this week.Visitors to the “Best Places to Live” section of CNNMoney.com will be able to see the latest homes for sale, [...]

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Warnaco Group to Replace Westwood One in S&P MidCap 400

Standard & Poor's said Monday apparel maker Warnaco Group Inc. will replace broadcaster Westwood One Inc. via Canadian Business Magazine

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Connecting Neighbors Links Agents and Education

RISMEDIA, July 17 2007??Connecting Neighbors, a division of Reply! Inc. announced its newly formed partnership with RealtyU for its Certified Neighborhood Specialist (CNS) course and designation.? The CNS course, launched earlier this month by RealtyU, coaches real estate professionals on methods for researching valuable neighborhood information to assist home buying or selling clients in [...]

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Bellevue to begin regulating megahouses as early as fall

Bellevue city officials will take action as soon as this fall to regulate "megahomes," multistory houses that tower over their smaller and...

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America’s Fastest-Growing Suburbs

Thanks to affordable housing and healthy local economies, areas in California, Arizona and Texas are seeing explosive growth.

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Regency Centers Goes Green with SoCal Shopping Center

The "green" development movement now has its latest manifestation in a new $45 million retail center pilot project in California by Regency Centers. via Commercial Property News

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National Association of Realtors Discusses Strategy for Next Year

RISMEDIA, July 17 2007??(MCT)??With the bottom of the real estate market potentially in sight, the incoming leadership of the nation’s biggest real estate group was busy last Wednesday looking toward next year.At a leadership retreat for the National Association of Realtors at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, incoming board president Dick Gaylord [...]

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HowTo: Create a Online Community

Step 1… I wish it were so simple I could give a step-by-step process! My take is that creating vibrant community is tough and there is obviously no simply step-by-step method that would work. However, my experience is that I get the most out of RCG when I focus on making sure [...]

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