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...At the start of the year it also settled a dispute over its $11bn takeover of Pilot Flying J, a truck stop chain....
...The US realtor industry was dealt a blow last year when a court found the country’s largest players liable for almost $1.8bn in damages....
...Adam J. Levitin is professor of law and finance at Georgetown Law. He is the author, with Susan Wachter, of The Great American Housing Bubble....
...“The realtors are thrilled because the visitors are all looking at open houses,” says Vossler Smith....
...Mr Trump has bounced back from previous furores, such as his widely criticised attack on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge overseeing two lawsuits against the billionaire’s university for realtors....
...J H Snyder & Co will this summer start work on a two-year build of The Vermont, a scheme of two towers, 22 and 28 storeys, including 464 apartments – a far cry from the retail mall originally to be built...
...Home resales declined by 27.2 per cent in July to an adjusted annual rate of 3.83m, according to the National Association of Realtors....
...From the New York Times (with a hat tip to Calculated Risk): In an annual survey conducted by the economists Robert J. Shiller and Karl E....
...The National Association of Realtors said that pending home sales rose for the fourth month running in May and were up by 6.7 per cent compared with a year ago....
...Levitt and Stephen J....
...The National Association of Realtors’ initial estimates of home prices in February showed prices remained virtually unchanged from January to February, after falling 15.5 per cent on the year....
...The consensus on Wall Street was that the National Association of Realtors’ figures would show a drop to about 4.95m units....
...So there’s the National Association of Realtors who on Monday found that the median sale price of existing homes slipped to $228,900 in July, down 0.6 per cent from a year earlier....
...“Until uncertainty over the economy clears, stocks are not going anywhere in the next couple of months,” said Doug Peta, market strategist at J&W Seligman....
...The National Association of Realtors’ index for pending sales of existing homes increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.7 per cent in February, which was more than expected....
...“Subprime and continues slowness in housing are both drags on the financial sector,” said Doug Peta, market strategist at J&W Seligman....
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...EMPIRES OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H....
...He was, I believe, a realtor. He did indeed die in August 1992. Lunar Park is dedicated to his memory....
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