$128 For Hawaii's Most Expensive Real Estate

$128 For Hawaii's Most Expensive Real Estate

Again, this is an incredibly valuable piece of real estate with Phase 1 of the project having just gone live in Q4. To date, both of these assets have basically been dormant on Howard Hughes balance sheet. They've been in the development stage not contributing much to the company's income statement.
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IBM & Walmart Launching Blockchain Food Safety Alliance In China With Fortune 500's JD.com

By collaborating with one of China's largest retailers, JD.com, a member of the NASDAQ-100 and a Fortune Global 500 company, and their suppliers, the latest effort is touted as helping to bring a safer food supply to China, and an extension of the work initiated by Walmart and IBM earlier this year in
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Mortgage Rates Remain Flat

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.93 percent for the week ending Dec. 14, 2017, down very slightly from last week when it averaged 3.94 percent. The 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.36 percent, the same as last week. And the five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate
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Open Banking. Some regions have one thing right but banks in general still have one thing very …

Last month I spoke at the Nordics NextGen conference in Stockholm. The topic was open banking and PSD2 with a truly great panel, moderator and a full house of intertactive 400+ attendees and my first Nordics visit with open banking experience under my belt. There were two key learnings that I took
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Federal tax overhaul could rattle Boston, Cambridge housing markets in particular

Congressional Republicans' plans to cap the federal deduction for property taxes at $10,000 could wallop the Boston and Cambridge housing markets in particular, according to a new analysis from Business Insider. Currently, taxpayers can deduct all property taxes on their federal returns.
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Botswana: US$25 Million Funding for Botswana Financial Inclusion

BBS is a leading domestically-owned financial institution and the largest residential mortgage lender in Botswana, where only two percent of the population has used housing finance, as most households still use non-mortgage credit. The transformation of BBS will ensure the envisaged commercial
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Top Retail Takeaways From The 2017 Fortune Global Forum: Shopping As A Fun Sport

GUANGZHOU, CHINA – DECEMBER 06: A banquet is held at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on day one of the 2017 Fortune Global Forum on December 6, 2017 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. The 2017 Fortune Global Forum is held on Dec 6-8 in Guangzhou. (Photo by Xiao
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Putin Suggests FBI Drugged Russian Olympic-Doping Whistle-Blower

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested the FBI has been drugging a whistle-blower it's protecting after he disclosed a massive state-run doping program that led to Russia being barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics. “He's working under the control of the American special services, what kind of
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Growth Seen Ending in Rental Housing Market

Harvard Joint Center: “We're finally seeing the record growth in renters slow down, but while the market has responded to rental housing needs for higher-income households, there are alarming trends that suggest a growing inability to supply housing that is affordable for middle- and working-class
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At Paramount Financial, buying a bank is just a start

Superior doesn't have a mortgage operation, giving Paramount a clean slate. The bank's seven employees will remain, and Paramount plans to double its lending in two years. Paramount ranked as the 18th largest mortgage lender in St. Louis in 2016, with $179 million in loan volume, according to
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RE/MAX 2018 Housing Market Outlook

The new OSFI mortgage qualification rules that come into effect on January 1, 2018 also impacted housing market activity toward the end of this year and are expected to slow activity in real estate markets across Canada in the first part of 2018. This fall, a number of regions including Fraser Valley,
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Northeast Ohio banks raise prime lending rates following interest rate hike

In step with the U.S. Federal Reserve's widely expected decision on Wednesday, Dec. 14, to raise its benchmark interest rate another 25 basis points to a range of 1.25% to 1.5%, large banks followed by raising their own prime lending rates, which are closely tied to the metric. All the top regional banks
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TRANSACTIONS: Roundup of the week in middle market loans

A new mortgage in the amount of $6,000,000 on a 16-unit multifamily property located on West Fourth Street in New York, NY. The loan features an initial rate of 3.50% and a five-year term. Chaim Tessler negotiated this transaction. A new mortgage of $5,200,000 was placed on a 68-unit multifamily
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China's Tencent Music Expects a $1B IPO Next Year–It Already Has Double the Paying Users of …

China's Tencent Music, a streaming and downloading service that has twice as many paying customers as Spotify, is expected to raise at least $1 billion during its IPO next year. The IPO of Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s @tencent(tctzf, +1.70%) music arm, which is currently valued at $10 billion, is one of the
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Stock Down -1.58% Over the Last Month: Real Estate Credit Investments Pcc Limit (RECI.L)

At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for Real Estate Credit Investments Pcc Limit (RECI.L) is 22.07. Many technical chart analysts believe that an ADX value over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would indicate no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear
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Housing Prices in Barrie Expected to Grow Double The National Average

Barrie's housing prices are predicted to grow even further. ReMax has taken a look at recent trends and say the price of residential units in Barrie is expected to increase by five per cent next year, compared to a national average of just 2.5 per cent. The Real Estate company says Barrie's proximity to
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WINTON GROUP Ltd Has $67.75 Million Position in Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)

WINTON GROUP Ltd increased its holdings in Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM) by 31.7% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 576,867 shares of the company's stock after buying an
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Why Netflix Has Been Less Outspoken on Net Neutrality This Time

… the net-neutrality regulations were implemented, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg. The Internet Association lists members including Netflix, Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The trade group “has been incredibly active on behalf of our members,” said Scott Haber,
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The Huge Price Gap Between Bitcoin Futures and Bitcoin Is Shrinking

… in a sign that the bitcoin futures market may be getting more efficient less than a week after the futures' debut on Cboe Global Markets Inc. It cost about $414 more to buy the contract than to buy bitcoin on the spot market, a premium of 2.5 percent as of 11:54 a.m., according to Bloomberg data.
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Delta Chooses Airbus Over Boeing in $12.7 Billion Jet Deal

Delta Air Lines Inc. ordered 100 of Airbus SE's A321neo jetliners, a deal with a list value of $12.7 billion, in a major victory for the European planemaker over Boeing Co. Deliveries of the single-aisle planes will begin in early 2020 and the transaction includes options for an additional 100 aircraft, Delta
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