Annie Leibovitz Makes Deal With Colony Capital To Manage Debt, Keep Portfolio Huffington Post | NEW YORK — Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both side...
Biden Sees ''moment of Real Opportunity'' in Mideast The New York Times | Filed at 5:02 a.m. ET | JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israelis and Palestinians face a ''moment of real opportunity'' to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an Obama administration official to Israel....
Airport Built, It's Time to See if the Traffic Comes The New York Times | The first new international airport in the United States in more than decade is set to open in May near Panama City, Fla., a community of 37,000 people on the state’s panhandle. That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and fi...
Qué? Help on way for British expats struggling to go native in Spain The Times | When Charles Johnston ventured from his flat on the Costa del Sol to visit Madrid he soon found himself in hot water. | When he ran a bath Mr Johnston was surprised to discover the tap marked C was for hot - caliente - rather than cold water. In co...
Liberty to split £6bn property portfolio in two The Times | Liberty International has confirmed plans to split its £6.2 billion portfolio into two separate companies. | Britain's third-biggest property group, founded in 1980 by Sir Donald Gordon, will split along the lines of its two principal subsidiaries,...
Binani Cement forays into realty The Times Of India MUMBAI: Binani Cement — the flagship company of the Binani Group — is getting into commercial real estate development in order to cash in on its idle land bank and to reduce dependence on the cyclical nature of the cement business. The company ha...
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House prices: Rises may start to slow, surveyors say BBC News | Further rises in house prices may be held back by more properties coming onto the market, surveyors have said. | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) says new inst...
House prices could fall for several years The Guardian | Last month's fall could be a blip but some economists warn there is worse to come | February's drop in house prices could be down to cold weather and the end of the stamp duty ex...
House prices drift as supply exceeds demand The Times | The number of properties coming on to the market is outstripping inquiries from buyers and putting downward pressure on prices, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said....
Closer highlights for March 9 Chicago Business By: Staff March 09, 2010 | Sale Lawrence Price, who started the Schoolyard Tavern, a popular watering hole at 3258 N. Southport Ave. in Lakeview, sold the building for $2.1 million to a venture managed by Andrew Gloor, a real estate investor and a co...
Commercial delinquency lower than other mortgages Newsvine | WASHINGTON — Commercial mortgages were among the best-performing loans and leases held by banks and thrifts in the fourth quarter of last year, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Tuesday. | Overall, 7.3 percent of the debt held by banks an...
Obama Wields Analysis of Insurers in Health Battle The New York Times | WASHINGTON — To bolster the case for a far-reaching overhaul of the health care system, the Obama administration is seizing on a new analysis by Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank, recommending that investors buy shares in two big insurance companies, the UnitedHealth Group and Cigna, because insurance rates are up sharply and comp...
Carrying a home mortgage into retirement can increase anxiety Star Tribune | Q Could you answer a quick question about the housing bubble and the elderly? In your Nov. 28 column -- "Retirees wonder about home purchase: pay cash or get loan" you say: "It became conventional wisdom during the great credit boom of the 2000s that carrying a mortgage into retirement was just fine, maybe even smart. The tactic ba...
