Archive for December, 2006

post thumbnail

Peter Cooper and Stuyvesant – The Back Story on a 5.4 Bl Deal

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
The New York Times Charles V. Bagli has an outstanding article on the genesis of the largest residential real estate deal of our time, the sale of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town by MetLife to Tishman Speyer Properties. [...]

31Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Real estate boom of ‘06 to gain momentum in ‘07

In India. Sorry, but I saw the headline and could not resist.

The booming real estate market will gain momentum and is likely to attract foreign investment worth Rs 8,000 crore in 2007, an Assocham study has said.
“The real estate boom of 2006 is set to multiply itself in 2007 to get India a [...]

31Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

St. Louis Suing a Convent, a Saint, a Nun and a Wheelchair Bound Senior

Ah, the greed of a developer and the threat of new laws aimed at stopping them. The St. Louis Redevelopment Agency in its eagerness to avoid following the legistlatures decision, rushed an eminent domain takeover lawsuit to remove property from a Wheel Chair Bound senior citizen who has a long term lease on a property [...]

30Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

The Ranch House, One of the Greatest American Architectural Achievements?

While one may disagree that the ranch house is one of the great architectural achievements of the 20th century in America, I do, an interesting article in the Washington Post talks about the influence of future building styles that was created by the ranch house.
The ranch house is ubiquitous in surburban America. It does [...]

30Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Yankee’s Buy Boston’s Hancock Tower

Not completely, but Boston’s famous Hancock Tower was sold to a New York company, Broadway Real Estate Partners, as part of a 1.3 billion dollar deal. If I was a Boston native, and a Red Sox fan, I would be less than thrilled to have New Yorkers owning their landmark building.
Beacon Capital Partners selling [...]

29Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Selling Churches – When Getting Folks Into the Pews Fails, Selling The Property is Almost as Hard

An interesting article in the AP discusses the difficulties in selling churches after the congregation declines or the demographics of an area change. The balance of getting the right price and having the buyer use the building for purposes that the church deems acceptable are a tough balance. In a younger day I went to [...]

28Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Real Estate Market For Hispanics Growing

If you are a real estate agent, one of the growing demographics is the Hispanic housing market. Recent reports from DataQuick have show the growth in housing purchases by those with Hispanic surnames has grown dramatically in the past few years. While I am not saying enroll in a Spanish language course tomorrow, recent signs [...]

27Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Greedy Local Governments Starting To Pay Price

The greed of local governments as the tax money was rolling in knew no bounds. While professing to keep taxes down, the rising property values filled the coffers of local governments and their spending increased proportionally. Now as property values are not increasing and sales slow further reducing the transfer tax revenue, these same city [...]

26Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

25Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Christmas in America – A Montana House Raising

While the world tends to only report that bad, I found this wonderful story about a town rallying around a family who lost their house in a fire three weeks ago. Now they have new home and a new life.

Angels descended on Ken and Jodi Gardner’s piece of paradise last weekend, clad in Carhartt [...]

24Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
  • Popular

    Most Comments

    Search

    Tags

    Archives

  • Recent Comments

    • My mom told me to put the statue in the ground, just seems wrong to me but I did it. ...
      Kara | 7Nov09 | More
    • What about RE/MAX Commercial? Where this classification came from? I am pretty sure RE/MAX Commercial in volume sales must be above ...
      JM Padron, CCIM | 7Nov09 | More
    • Well Tom, once again you have said it much better than I could have. Unfortunately the folks at Move, ...
      Joe Spake | 7Nov09 | More
    • It certainly does not bode well for a fast recovery in the economic climate. This will affect all real estate ...
      Antony Lexington@Home loan | 7Nov09 | More
    • I HAVE 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS..HOW DO I APPLY AT KAI.
      ROBIN SPURLIN | 6Nov09 | More
    • Definitely not a fan of Move Inc.!!!
      Tony Sena | 6Nov09 | More
    • A lot of you really need to go back to kindergarten and learn to spell correctly. If you cannot spell ...
      SpazzyCat | 6Nov09 | More
    • In 2008, there was an extension to push first-time home buyers to purchase their homes quickly since the program did ...
      Mary | 6Nov09 | More
    • I also need HELP and don't know what to do about my problem. I have a garden apartment off ...
      Cheryl Gungor | 6Nov09 | More
    • I have the same situation. I sold my home in July and am scheduled to to close in a few ...
      Arlo Moehlenoah | 6Nov09 | More
  • Statistics

  • Friends

  • Recent Friends Visiting

  • Subscribe





    Get Updates Delivered Daily By E-Mail:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

  • Page 1 of 512345»