Baltimore Sun - Two years in the making, the report, “Downtown Columbia: A Community Vision,” is intended to provide General Growth Properties, the Chicago-based company that controls much of Columbia’s downtown real estate, with guidance in creating its development (Read more..)

Detroit News - My mother was in real estate, and it led to her being an antiques collector,” explains Nix, 57, who re-entered the work force with Grand Sakwa, a development company, after retiring from General Motors. “When I graduated from college, she helped me (Read more..)

Washington Post - “Location, location, location” may be the mantra of real estate, but equally important is “timing, timing, timing.” Even the most well-located projects can be hurt by factors such as tightening financing, escalating construction costs, weakening (Read more..)

MSN MoneyCentral - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System said Friday it will invest $500 million in the new real estate ARA Asia Dragon Fund. The fund is sponsored by ARA Asset Management, a member of the Cheung Kong Group. ARA has $4.7 billion under (Read more..)

Street.Com - It was a bad week for homebuilders. Not only are banks tightening credit standards, dooming potential home sales, but home prices are still falling, which means would-be home buyers have every incentive to wait and see if they can get a better deal (Read more..)

Houston Chronicle - I said, `This is something,’” recalled Willcox, a 69-year-old former real estate developer. “I said, `These are not just run-of-the-mill stuff.’” And so began a journey that has led Willcox and his 440 Civil War-era letters into a court fight with the (Read more..)

USA Today - The radio industry is overhauling the way it counts listeners, moving away from a pencil-and-paper diary method in use since the 1960s in favor of a pager-like device called a Portable People Meter. A group of people are selected to carry around the (Read more..)

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