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...When the business introduced a franchise model eight years later, Kraft acquired the exclusive licence for Sotheby’s International Realty France-Monaco....
...At one point he gave Mrs Helmsley a dog, a Maltese, to whom she would later leave a $12m inheritance....
...At one point, there were three Northstar entities: Northstar Realty Europe; Northstar Realty Finance, also a Reit; and Northstar Asset Management, which was meant to manage and earn fees on the other two...
...“The public is left wondering if subsequent loans were the spoils of promises or impartiality that might be paid at some point down the road....
...“The dirty little secret is that the GSEs largely work,” says Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Washington-based Compass Point Research....
...But some advantages have always been clear for the industry, and in particular at a point in time when prices are again at a level equalling the previous boom....
...Since KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty took the company private in a leveraged buyout in 2005, the company has spent more than $250m a year servicing some $5bn of long term debt....
...I'm standing on Satellite Beach in Florida among the surfers and the pelicans just down the coast from Cape Canaveral, up there, where SpaceX launches its rockets....
...M&A in real estate for the year to date stands at $188bn, according to Thomson Reuters, up from $170bn during the same period last year and the highest level at this point of the year since 2007....
...The controlling general partner is owned by American Realty Capital, a property investment group with no background in oil and gas production....
...“From an investor’s point of view, there’s a lot of bullishness on the housing market but very few ways to play it,” said Andy Richard, managing director in the real estate investment banking group at Credit...
...The Empire State Realty Trust, to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange, aims to bring together the landmark tower and other New York-area properties in its portfolio....
...Steve Rivkin, a broker at Planet Realty LLC, estimates that East Rock’s older-style brownstones and Tudor- or colonial-style homes (originally built for shipping magnates and factory owners) sell for about...
...So it is both authoritative-sounding, yet deniable at any convenient point in the future, the ideal for an international bureaucratic statement....
...Americold Realty Trust, a warehouse operator owned by billionaire Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos, postponed its $660m initial public offering after slashing the mid-point price by 33 per cent....
...Rivera-Aspinall says most foreigners tend to buy in these coastal areas of old San Juan but he also points to “elegant” Ponce on the south coast, a city that once rivalled the capital as a business and cultural...
...He points out that newcomers who work in the arts, theatre and dance have driven a cultural renaissance. “That population has an outsized effect on the life of the city.”...
...The decision by the Bank of England to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent had little impact on the market. Elsewhere, the FTSE 250 improved 5.3 points at 12,062,4....
...Despite the surge in shoreline development, giant pelicans still land like seaplanes on the waves....
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