Five Things We Learned At A Luxury Real Estate Conference

Hosted by real-estate brokerages Urban Pace, Long & Foster, and Christie's, the first annual event focused on luxury trends in DC and beyond. While places like 432 Park Avenue in New York or Porsche Design Tower in Miami are making headlines for their high-end amenities and design, DC is not far
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“Americans deserve access to safe, affordable financial products, and this legislation would help create a regulatory environment in which credit unions can more easily deliver those services to their 111 million members,” Berger said. In fact, many members of the housing industry are in favor of the bill,
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A version of the technology that's meant to make cryptocurrency payments faster and cheaper went live Thursday. The software, called Lightning Network, can now be used for Bitcoin payments after more than a year in which thousands of developers tested it. Lightning Labs, one of the firms developing
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My Bloomberg News colleagues reported last July — just a day after Trump conversed with the Times about that red line — that Mueller was expanding the scope of his investigation to Trump's commercial dealings. Mueller's probe seems to be pursuing three primary questions. The first is whether Trump
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Banks want to earn your business — and they sometimes offer enticing checking account promotions to get it. You should always look for bank promotions when you're ready to open a new bank account. If you already have a free, online checking account, consider opening another account elsewhere
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B.C. has created an anonymous tip line so consumers — and fellow agents — can report shady real estate agents to the provincial regulator. The province said the line is another measure to ensure that agents are abiding by professional standards, while protecting consumers who report unethical
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Tax season is here! For busy real estate agents who manage their own finances, it can be hard to find time (and energy) to get expenses in order. If this is you, do not push these tasks to the bottom of your priority list. Setting aside time now can save you thousands of dollars in the near future. To help
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The New York Department of Financial Services has approved a mortgage banker license for Hudson United Mortgage LLC in Nanuet. hudson united mortgage Hudson said in a news release that the license allows it to control more of the mortgage process and attract more investors with niche products
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Blue Apron Holdings Inc. plans to start selling its prepared dinners in stores later this year, part of an effort to reach more customers as growth stalls. The New York-based pioneer of boxed meals is still very much focused on its core online subscription model, but it's also considering selling single kits on
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The facility, which is located near UPS Airline's Global Operations Center at Louisville International Airport, will give the company more space to train new … “Worldport is the engine room of global trade,” Canavan said. … These new planes are in addition to 14 that UPS announced it was buying in 2016.
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McDonald's Corp. shares have recovered all of their losses and then some since a selloff triggered by a more pessimistic sales outlook from RBC Capital. The shares fell 4.8 percent on March 2, the biggest one-day slump in eight years, as analyst David Palmer cut his comparable sales estimates, citing
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Fortune was the first magazine to dedicate a cover to Holmes, who then went on to grace the covers of virtually every major business publication. When Roger Parloff was reporting the story for Fortune in 2014, he asked questions that the company told him were “getting into the realm of trade secret.”.
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Former gambling mogul Steve Wynn and his ex-wife Elaine settled a six-year-long dispute over who controls their shares in the casino company they once ran, freeing both to sell the stock. Wynn Resorts Ltd. said in a filing Thursday that the pair, who together control 21 percent of the company, have told
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MADISON, N.J., March 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ERA Real Estate recently honored ERA France on its 25th anniversary as a member of the global real estate franchise network. The company celebrated this momentous accomplishment at both a two-day French convention at the Grimaldi Forum, held
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Crestbridge Group, the Jersey-based independent trust, fund and corporate services provider, has acquired Kingfisher Property, a privately-held London-based real estate funds and financing business that currently provides regulatory services to more than 100 UK real estate funds. The price and other
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Executive Conversations is a HousingWire web series that profiles powerful people in the financial industry, highlighting the operations and the people that make this sector tick. In the latest installment, we sit down with David Gansberg, CEO of Arch MI, to discuss how Arch MI is adjusting to new DTI
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In defiance of fierce protests from liberal activists, Republicans and a raft of moderate Democrats in the Senate passed legislation on Wednesday evening that will ease banking regulations enacted eight years ago, as part of the Dodd-Frank regulatory law, in response to the 2008 financial meltdown.
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The Florida Agency Network (FAN) has hired Chris LaChance as its sales manager, the company announced. In his new … and gaining market share for the members of FAN, which includes Hillsborough Title, Paramount Title, Tampa Bay Title, Smart Title, Strategic Title, Affinity Title and Equimax Title.
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Actress and comedian Mindy Kaling has been busy. She's currently in cinemas as Mrs. Who in the fantasy film “A Wrinkle in Time”; she's producing “Champions,” a new sitcom on NBC; and she just sold another home in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times. The charming Spanish-style
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Once applicants are approved, program managers will perform an inspection of the house, identify all the work that needs to be done, and prioritize the work based on what the greatest need is and the budget that's available, says Anita Allgood, a mortgage loan specialist at Invest Atlanta. The program
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