Archive for May, 2007

Jamie Foxx Buys Thousand Oaks Mansion For 10.5 Million

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Jamie Foxx has just purchased a 10.5 million dollar mansion in the Thousand Oaks section of Los Angeles Ventura County (Thanks Robert Cote for the correction). The Oscar winning actor has been on a trajectory of success, and the [...]

20May2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Is This A Trend: Irish Investors Buying Up Chicago Real Estate

In my post, The Irish Are Coming, The Irish Are Coming I focused on the increased spending on New York City by Irish buyers. Now reading an article out of Chicago I see that the Irish are also buying up property in Chicago too. The low tax, high growth environment is creating amazing wealth in Ireland and they are [...]

20May2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

Yikes! Video Killed The Real Estate Webmaster

Folks, the day has changed. If you have spent years developing your blogsite for big generic terms and have built your business on it, you will have to refocus your efforts again. Google has changed their methodology to include all of their news, video, and other searches under their main search.
So if you were [...]

19May2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

Top 10 Most Overprices Housing Markets in 2007

Forbes has come out with their list of the Top 10 Overpriced Housing Market for 2007. The list is definately screaming the coasts where all of the overpriced markets are located.
California leads the way with 5 cities out of the top 10, but the Washington to Boston corridor has 3 of the locations itself. Honolulu [...]

19May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Manhattan Appraisals Investigated By New York State Attorney General

Pressure to increase appraisals may have led to Andrew Cuomo, the new New York State Attorney General, to start investigating how appraisals have been done in Manhattan over the past few years. Presently he is targeting Mitchell, Maxwell, and Jackson Inc. but if history shows out, if there is any meat to the investigation it [...]

19May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

India Real Estate Bubble Bursts As Transactions Are Down 50 Percent

India has had a raging real estate bubble form the past couple of years as demand has been through the roof and organized crime has made inroads into the real estate community. But now it seems the party is over and demand has dropped like a stone.
We think things have slowed down in the United [...]

18May2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

NY RE Agent and Homeless Services Official Arrested For Fraud

You would have to be a pretty weak real estate agent to try to defraud a homeless agency for providing homes to the indigent. That act unto itself will not lend itself to a very good reception to whatever higher being you worship.
But the sum of stealing 25 thousand dollars as a licensed real [...]

18May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Marijuana Grow-Ops Homes A Problem In Canada

There must be a big problem with Grow-Ops homes being put on the market in Canada or else Canadian Realtors have lot’s of time on their hands now that the hockey season is winding down. There is a big debate on how to categorize what constitutes a grow-ops house as once the home has been [...]

18May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

MyNextDeal - A New Commercial Real Estate Portal and Search Engine

MyNextDeal.com has a great deal of potential to be the aggregator of commercial listings on the web for the United States. That is an audacious statement to make about a website, but after spending the last hour surfing around it mixing voyuerism with searching for some interesting opportunities, it has a great deal of potential. [...]

17May2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

MyBlogLog To Change Name and Add Features

MyBlogLog is one of the favorite tools of the Real Estate Blogosphere, or RE.net, for bloggers and readers alike. Yahoo acquired the company and has been formulating some upgrades for the coming year or so that include a complete rebrand.
Andy Beal has the scoop of some of the changes that include:

Re-branding the service. No [...]

17May2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued