ABQ housing market keeps moving up

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thanks to eager home buyers, the Albuquerque metro housing market continued an upward trend last month, despite a short supply of single-family homes for sale. Sales of existing homes rose 5.6 percent in February compared with the same month in 2017, a report by the
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Years of falling interest rates in the aftermath of the 2008-09 financial crisis taught a generation of home buyers that renewing a mortgage is a chance to reduce your payments. Now, we're heading into the first wave of postcrisis renewals at higher mortgage rates. If you bought your house five years ago
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AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson and AT&T Senior Executive Vice President David R McAtee II leave after a news conference in Time Warner headquarters addressing the latest developments in the AT&T and Time Warner merger on November 20, 2017 in New York City.
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More and more nonbank lenders are taking advantage of the strong appetite for short-term, floating-rate debt to bundle bridge loans into collateral for vehicles called commercial real estate collateralized loan obligations, or CRE CLOs. This funding is an attractive complement to bank lines of credit
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“Reverse mortgages, which can also be identified as Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, or HECMs, are a specific type of home loan offered by the Federal Housing Administration,” says Mary Tillery, a loan originator and a real estate mortgage instructor with At Your Pace Online, an online education
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Hawke's Bay's thriving housing market is injecting new blood to the region, something that is also benefiting the region's primary schools, with hundreds of extra pupils bumping up school rolls. Waipukurau Primary School principal Tim Hocquard said the school had benefited from an increase in the
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Wayne, N.J.-based Toys “R” Us Inc. operates 34 Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in Southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Northeast Delaware, accounting for 967,544 square feet of space, according to data compiled by real estate market tracker the CoStar Group. The chain owns just nine
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Much of the money goes into buying UK properties. Global Witness claims 85,000 properties across the UK are owned by companies that are incorporated in UK tax havens. According to Transparency International, almost one in 10 of the properties in the City of Westminster are owned by companies
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Burn Boot Camp/Midlothian Fitness leased 5,700 square feet of retail space in Woodlake Commons located at 6800 Woodlake Commons Loop in Midlothian. Peter Vick and Harrison Hall represented the landlord. Park Group leased an additional 3,000 square feet of office space in the Exchange Alley
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Controversy as land meant for construction of Sh3 billion coffee lacks title deed. By Nathan Ochunge | Published Sat, … The company plans to set up a Sh3 billion mill on the land that has been lying fallow for 20 years following collapse of Kibuma Coffee Factory in 1984. The project is being funded by
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Ban Bitcoin? Maybe try adopting its underlying technology, blockchain, instead, says Congress to U.S. government agencies. Roslan Rahman—AFP/Getty Images. By Lucinda Shen. 4:36 PM EDT. U.S. government agencies should look to blockchain technology for ways to improve their work, a report
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“The whole purpose of those rent-a-bank partnerships was to allow payday lenders to avoid the interest-rate limits under state law,” said Lauren Saunders, associate director at the National Consumer Law Center. “The partnership with ACE Cash Express was the worst example of banks abusing their
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A sign sits on an office building of ABLV Bank AS in Riga, Latvia, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. ABLV, the Latvian lender accused of money laundering by the U.S. Treasury, said it's drawn up a plan to end a freeze on making payments after its mainly foreign clients began to withdraw their money.
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ADLER Real Estate's encouraging earnings sentiment drives analysts to project substantial growth of 86.50% in the coming year, but it's necessary to take a moment and consider this projection. Investors should consider the forces that are driving this projected increase, as the return realised by
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Editor's Note: Scott Birkner is the senior vice president and manager of the craft beverage lending division at United Community Bank. During a 20-year career in banking, Birkner has become an expert in helping startup beverage companies secure Small Business Administration (SBA) loans of varying
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That's boosting the government debt load, fueling forecasts for higher yields and raising the specter of paper losses for international investors who own $6.3 trillion of U.S. debt. Slowing demand for Treasuries from overseas buyers is contributing to dollar weakness against the currency's major peers,
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The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published two reports as part of its work to assess and address the decline in correspondent banking relationships (1) a progress report on the FSB action plan to assess and address the decline in correspondent banking and (2) a stocktake on remittance service
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Private equity firms don't make a habit of backing companies that want to escape the public markets so they can continue spending as much as they want on research and development and cling to a business model that has invited repeated fights with regulators and customers. Should Jacobs and
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Business Process Management (Bpm) In Real Estate Market Competitive landscape gives a description of the competitive nature of the market, market shares, and a description of the leading companies. Key financial deals which have shaped the market in recent years are identified. Growth of the
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