2007 May : The Real Estate Bloggers

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Posts Gone Bad

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is a replacement post for posts that seem to keep ending up on the wrong sites.  Apologies and probably time to see why group posting in Blogjet is going so wrong.

23May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
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Technorati Gets Facelift

This post is for the bloggers. If you use Technorati go drive over and take a look at their new digs. Excellent job on the redesign guys!
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23May2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
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Morgan Stanley To Buy Crescent REIT

Morgan’s Stanley’s real estate arm has announced it will buy Crescent Real Estate Equities Company for a combination cash and debt. Crescent has seen some hard times lately in its holdings of 70 hotels and office buildings. They lost 15 million in the first quarter and have struggled in a period where most REIT’s have […]

23May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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Real Estate Bloggers VideoCast - Using Video on the Internet

Here is the first go with a videocast on topics of the day. It is a bit rough but with practice it may turn into something. The great thing about the web is that we can practice with new tools and nobody gets hurt.
Today I talked about using video on the internet and why […]

22May2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued
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Michael Irvin Joins Tetra Development Company

Famous Dallas Cowboys have gone on to successful real estate careers. Roger Staubach and Emmit Smith come to mind. However, Michael Irvin is now entering the world of real estate development joining the Tetra Cos. to develop mixed use real estate and low and moderate income housing.
Now I do not have anything personal against […]

22May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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San Diego Selling Government Property Via Real Estate Agents

The San Diego City council has approved the sale of properties they own but are not using following in the footsteps of the Canadian’s’s. Surplus real estate on city and state rolls do nothing but raise the maintenance costs and reduce property taxes for a city. If their goal is patronage, then this works out […]

22May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
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New York City’s Housing Shortage Increasing Violations

New York City has tremendous pressure on it’s housing inventory. The high end has been increasing in value significantly and the low end is becoming more and more expensive for the city’s poor and middle class. When it is difficult to find housing, tenants have to be very subservient to their landlords and the unscrupulous […]

21May2007 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued
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Lowe’s Home Improvement Chain Sales Down Due To Housing Slump

It looks like the slowdown in housing sales is starting to affect the home improvement retailer Lowe’s. Sales for the first quarter were down surprising analysts and stockholders. Lowes is blaming the the housing market for the drop in sales.
This does make sense. If your property in not appreciating you are less likely to […]

21May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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Tainted Chinese Imported Foods Aimed At Humans Too

Oops, this post will stay but was meant for another site. Sorry if it confused you. — Tom
We have covered the Menu Foods problem of tainted dog food that killed many of our pets, but the problem does not stop at pet food entering the country from China. The concept of a safe food supply […]

20May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
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New York’s Plaza Hotel Condo Sells For 50 Million Dollars

The New York City Plaza Hotel has gone condo for some amazing prices, with a new record set for one of the units at 50 million dollars. When we first reported on the pricing in December of 2005, pricing was expected to top out at 35 million dollars for the Duplex and Triplex Penthouses at […]

20May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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