Real estate market exclusive: Here are top cities to buy and sell homes

The U.S. housing market has been branded a seller's paradise, with limited home inventories pushing up prices. Actually, though, individual markets across the country vary widely. Strong economic and job growth, for example, drive buyer demand and home prices higher while a sluggish labor market
See Original Article

Betsy DeVos, U.S. secretary of education,during a House Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on May 24, 2017. Zach Gibson—Bloomberg/Getty Images. By Reuters. 9:30 PM EST. The U.S. Education Department under President Donald Trump and Secretary Betsy
See Original Article

Investment Real Estate LLC (IRE), a property-management and consulting firm serving the self-storage industry, has hired Jeff Murdorf as director of construction, responsible for leading all construction projects for the Investment Real Estate Group of Cos., including the Moove In Self Storage portfolio.
See Original Article

Formerly with Winder Real Estate, Herger has been licensed since 2006. An active participant in her community, she is a member of Montgomery County Association of Realtors. Herger resides in Penn Valley with her husband, Kris, and their three children. She serves the Greater Philadelphia area and
See Original Article

PGP said the residential market had been resilient even if growth had tapered off. “When we review the latest Pam Golding Residential Property index, we note that national house price inflation has averaged at 4.14% during the year to date [January to October], losing some momentum in recent months
See Original Article

Australians took out $6.4 billion of personal loans in October, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That was down 3.2 per cent on the year before, although it was up 1.6 per cent on the previous month and 6.6 per cent on the previous quarter. By way of contrast, owner-occupiers
See Original Article

The state awarded GCC about $70,000 for a program that will essentially act like a technology-lending library. The funds will be used to buy laptops, iPads, Kindles and mobile hotspot drives, which students who meet certain criteria will be able to use to facilitate their class work, which is increasingly
See Original Article

WIP!] [STATUS: PBE is up! Working!] The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.1 PBE cycle, today's patch includes 2018 season Esports icons, as well as more tentative balance changes! Continue reading for more information! Miss Fortune Make it Rain (E) cooldown increased from
See Original Article

People looking to buy property in British Columbia won't soon have access to the torrent of information their counterparts in the Greater Toronto Area are now seeing – the result of a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that has opened the door to previously private data. Real estate brokerages in B.C. say
See Original Article

OK, plenty of London bankers buy shirts in bulk at TM Lewin, but there are also those who buy affordable tailored shirts in Jermyn Street. In Frankfurt, tailored shirts are rare. Instead, most German bankers get shirts from shops like Olymp, Eterna or Seidensticker. The quality of the fabric isn't great, but
See Original Article

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE:HON) is a diversified global technology and manufacturing company supplying industrial products, software and services to a diversified set of customers. Honeywell operates through four segments: aerospace (36% of 2016 sales); home and building technologies
See Original Article

The maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages eligible to be acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) in most of the U.S. starting on January 1 will be $453,100, an increase from $424,100 in 2017. The Veterans Administration and FHA are expected to follow suit, raising limits for their
See Original Article

INTERNATIONAL REPORT—From hotel portfolios to independent hotels, buyers and sellers are closing deals. … Summit Hotel Properties Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisition of four hotels with a combined total of 652 guestrooms for an aggregate purchase price of $164 million,
See Original Article

Just last month, my Bloomberg View colleague Noah Smith proposed a land-value tax as a solution to the housing squeeze besetting cities in California and elsewhere, arguing that such a levy “is an efficient and fair way to take a city that now works only for lucky prosperous landowners, and turn it into
See Original Article

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that some CFOs are telling their employees to stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Excel spreadsheets for “financial planning, analysis and reporting.” Complaints about Excel are as old as the program itself. Some of those complaints are legitimate, and Microsoft
See Original Article

New mortgage rules coming into effect in January will disqualify about 10 per cent of prospective homebuyers from buying the home they want, the Bank of Canada says. Under new rules put into place by Canada's banking regulator, OSFI, borrowers of traditional mortgages (with 20 per cent or more
See Original Article

Axiom International Investors LLC DE boosted its stake in shares of Nice Ltd (NASDAQ:NICE) by 52.7% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 79,810 shares of the technology company's stock after buying an
See Original Article

H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE:HRB) shares are up more than 10.87% this year and recently decreased -0.66% or -$0.17 to settle at $25.49. Weight Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE:WTW), on the other hand, is up 264.10% year to date as of 11/27/2017. It currently trades at $41.69 and has returned -7.72%
See Original Article

Coalition tensions over a banking inquiry are close to breaking point with a former Nationals leader branding senior Liberal cabinet minister Christopher Pyne a hypocrite, and a sitting Nationals MP warning the Turnbull government against handing down “stone tablets from on high”. Mr Pyne on
See Original Article

Sales will be down in 2018, but not prices: B.C. Real Estate Association. CKNW. By Gord … The British Columbia Real Estate Association is out with its fourth-quarter housing forecast, and it's predicting residential sales will decline by 10 per cent in 2018, after an expected drop of 8.8 per cent in 2017.
See Original Article