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...Starboard plans to recommend News Corp spin off its digital real estate division, which includes a stake in Australian online property site operator REA Group and Realtor.com parent Move Inc The activist...
...The Seattle-based group is behind hugely popular real estate listing websites such as Trulia, StreetEasy and HotPads alongside its namesake brand....
...Zillow started out helping realtors advertise. But hopes of huge advertising revenue growth were stymied by Google and Facebook, twin giants of digital advertising....
...Given agent business accounts for two-thirds of group revenues, Zillow is right to take the hint and email more leads, even if some are low grade. Advertising will return....
...In a hammy accent, he mimics a realtor talking about “steaks this big” with hand gestures indicating something silly and mammoth....
...“They feel more secure when they have their own house,” a local Chinese realtor said. “This is not their own country, after all.”...
...“It’s a question of loan officers learning about the availability of the products again and . . . being willing to teach realtors and borrowers that there is more credit available.”...
...The biggest deal of the year was Anbang Insurance Group’s $6.5bn purchase of Strategic Hotels and Resorts from private equity group Blackstone....
...(FT) Valeant — the harder they fall Two years ago executives from Pfizer, the world’s second-largest pharmaceuticals group, sat down for dinner with their counterparts at Valeant and raised the prospect...
...(The Guardian) Apple must come down from the cloud In its various quarrels with the US government, the tech group seems to think it is entitled to stand above the processes of democratic society, writes...
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...More than 80 per cent of new US multifamily units — or apartment towers — built in the past two years have commanded rents in the top fifth of the market, according to CoStar, a property research group....
...An index of pending home sales jumped 3.1 per cent to 106.9 last month, according to National Association of Realtors figures. The broader S&P 500 index advanced 1.2 per cent to 2,086.24....
...The Quakers One of the groups who embraced the folk spin-off of the Landlord’s Game were the Quakers of Atlantic City....
...Difficult Dutch and Benelux solid waste markets dented profits at London-listed waste group Shanks....
...The deal also underlines News Corp’s continued push for digital expansion, following the $950m purchase in September of Move, the owner of US-based property website Realtor.com....
...Brokers pay to feature their listings on aggregation sites such as Zillow, Trulia and realtor.com....
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...The latest report from the National Association of Realtors showed pending sales, seen by economists as a better indicator of the future direction of the market, had climbed....
...Housing stocks were broadly lower with the S&P 500 real estate industry sub group off 1 per cent after the National Association of Realtors index of pending home sales dropped 5.6 per cent....
...According to a report published by the National Association of Realtors in June, buyers from China and Hong Kong made up the second largest group of foreign buyers of homes in the US in the 12 months to...
...“These would be city crash pads,” said Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a nonprofit group....
...Existing home sales in August rose to their best level in two years, according to figures released by the National Association of Realtors....
...The rise in the National Association of Realtors pending home sales index, which is based on contract signings was the second data boost for homebuilders this month, after construction starts hit their highest...
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