Kensington falls to first-half loss (FT.com)
FT.com - Kensington Group, the troubled subprime mortgage lender, tumbled to a loss of £10.1m for the first half compared with a £30.3m profit for the same period last year.
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Markets veteran criticises leverage finance (FT.com)
FT.com - A year ago, some analysts at Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) made a striking call: at a big financial industry conference in Barcelona, they predicted that the subprime sector was heading for problems - even though most large banks were relatively upbeat about the sector at the time.
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dubai chamber to merge its real estate group with dubai property group - Al-Bawaba
| dubai chamber to merge its real estate group with dubai property group Al-Bawaba, Jordan - Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Dubai Chamber) is to merge its real estate interests ??“ the Real Estate& Property Business Group ??“ with Dubai Property ... |
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Obeo Joins Forces with Trulia and Google Base
RISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”Obeo, a provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, recently announced its ability to be linked to Trulia and Google Base, two of the largest map-oriented real estate search engines on the Web.? ???At Obeo, we have taken great measures to excel in bringing the best online [...]
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AlignMark Welcomes Human Resources Consultant Dr. Robert Goldsmith
RISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”Michael Struth, senior vice president of operations is announced that Dr. Robert Goldsmith has joined AlignMark Inc. Dr. Goldsmith holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organization Psychology and has over 26 years of experience as an internal and external consultant in human resources.???Dr. Goldsmith has expertise in the areas of selection [...]
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Richard Gere Sells Manhattan Townhouse for 12 Million
Richard Gere has sold his New York City townhouse for 12 million dollars according to reports out of the New York Observer. The homes selling price does not compare with his uptown neighbors, but it is the highest price ever recorded for the MacDougal-Sullivan Garden neighborhood. With apartment values up 23 percent in New York [...]
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Pyramid real estate brokerage partners with Cushman & Wakefield - Bizjournals.com
| Pyramid real estate brokerage partners with Cushman & Wakefield Bizjournals.com, NC - CB Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBG), the largest publicly traded commercial real estate brokerage firm in the world, already has an office in Albany. Real estate giant enters WNY market Pyramid to join with real estate firm Pyramid Brokerage Forges Alliance With Cushman & Wakefield |
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Luxury Portfolio Fine Property Collection to Host 2007 International Symposium in Valencia, Spain
RISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”Luxury Portfolio Fine Property Collection?„? will bring together luxury real estate specialists from around the globe at its first International Symposium Sept. 13-16 at the Las Arenas Hotel in Valencia, Spain. Luxury Portfolio members from 15 countries will convene to explore cross-cultural trends and country-to-country similarities and differences in the luxury [...]
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‘Green’ Lawns Spur Neighborhood Wars
A year after Gwendolyn Bounds went organic she finally has a healthy swath of grass. So do other eco-friendly homeowners, but battle lines are being drawn over weeds.
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Pyramid to join with real estate firm
"We believe that the combined strength of our two companies offers clients premier local and global expertise, and that this association will benefit the greater economic development of upstate New York."
Pyramid Brokerage Co. said it will form an alliance next month with the world's largest privately held real estate services firm, resulting in "bigger and better" services for clients, greater resources and ... via Press & Sun-Bulletin
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