Top trends in Middle East investment: themes from the PERE conference … Summary: What are the key trends in Middle Eastern property investment? A recent PERE conference in Dubai explored the hot topics, with contributions from BLP Real Estate Partner Bonnie Calnan and UAE-based Legal
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… Toll also offers mortgage financing. It has about $1.5 billion in mortgage originations in 2017. This has always been an area that makes me nervous, because Toll takes on obligations that it must underwrite carefully. If a house purchase hinges on a less-than-quality mortgage borrower, Toll could find
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While Amazon's still not saying a word yet about where it plans to locate its second headquarters, the company is quietly negotiating plans to hire big in Boston, one of the 20 finalist cities for what's become known as Amazon HQ2. The retailer is in talks to lease an 18-story building in the Boston Seaport
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GENEVA – MARCH 03: A woman poses next to the new Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 during the first press day at the 79th Geneva International Motor Show on March 3, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images). Miguel Villagran Getty Images. By Jaclyn Gallucci.
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Boston's Seaport District has emerged as one of the city's hippest destinations for retail and dining. (Image courtesy of CL Properties.) From new mixed-use developments popping up in the skyline to the increase of small-format stores, 2017 saw robust growth in downtown Boston's retail landscape.
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Pending home sales hit their lowest level in over three years, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Last month, NAR's Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) fell 4.7 percent to 104.6 from a downwardly revised 109.8 in December 2017. On a year-over-year basis, the index is down by 3.8
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Despite growth in both mortgage rates and home prices, housing demand kicked off 2018 with its strongest January on record, according to Redfin's Housing Demand Index. The index was up 4.8% to 130.5 year-over-year in January, and increased 0.5% from the previous month. The rise in housing
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Mortgage demand rose last week as the 30-year mortgage interest rate stalled after a steady recent surge. Mortgage applications increased 2.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending
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Citi Community Development and Springboard CDFI Announce Major Expansion of Innovative Non-Profit Mortgage Loan Origination Platform. February … and a loan approval for the best possible financing,â explains Gabe del Rio, President of Springboard CDFI & Nationwide Mortgage Collaborative.
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Higher levels of purchase activity even with rising interest rates drove the increase in mortgage applications compared with one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The MBA's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Feb. 23 found that the refinance index
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In January this year, TMZ reported that the Get Rich or Die Tryin' rapper had rediscovered a crypto fortune of 700 Bitcoins, currently worth approximately $7-8 million. This stash had been obtained via album sales for 'Animal Ambition' in 2014 (when Bitcoin was worth around $600), after 50 Cent became
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In January, it said it had so far repurchased C$180 million of the problem mortgages and might have to buy back mortgages worth C$392 million in total. Mortgage lending practices have been under scrutiny in Canada since problems relating to mortgage underwriting procedures were identified at
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In the past, luxury within the real estate market was defined as high square footage, acreage, opulence and all things extravagant. But the times they are a changin'. And with that, the definition of luxury has changed. Thanks to a new segment of upwardly mobile Millennials, tech investors and film execs,
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People across the U.S. are planning to boycott Apple and Amazon products and services on Thursday over their relationship with the National Rifle Association (NRA). An increasing number of Twitter users are tweeting their support for the boycott, which will start on March 1 and last all day.
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Analysis on Ranklist of Fortune 500 Companies US. Dheepika C. 23 February 2018. EMAIL: dheepcho@gmail.com COLLEGE: MISB Bocconi. In this report, we will analyze the Ranklist of Fortune 500 Companies US.
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Billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is building a position in United Technologies Corp., according to a person familiar with the matter. The size of Pershing's position, as well as what sort of changes Ackman may seek at the industrial conglomerate, is unclear at
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Self-driving startup Aurora has added $90 million in funding and two big-name directors as it gears up to deliver autonomous-car software to the world's automakers. The company's first major round of funding is one of the largest for an automotive tech company, according to data from CB Insights.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. said it will make less in revenue this year than it has in at least four years, as the drugmaker pays down the debt load it amassed when it was a Wall Street darling. Sales will be between $8.1 and $8.3 billion, the drugmaker said in a statement Wednesday, lower
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The St. Petersburg native has distanced himself from Russia after resisting demands from the security services to decrypt users' communications and ceding his VK.com social network to billionaire Alisher Usmanov. Pavel Durov didn't immediately comment to Bloomberg News. â With assistance by
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