August 1, 2010

Two top commercial sites in seaside centre

Two prime properties on either side of Orewa’s main New World supermarket in Moana Ave, in Orewa’s commercial centre, just one street back from the beach, are being marketed for sale by Colliers’ brokers John Green and Andrew Hiskens…

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Two top commercial sites in seaside centre

Brookfield reorganizes real-estate holdings

The Brookfield group is reorganizing its real-estate holdings around the world.Brookfield Properties Corp. BPO-T will pay $1.4-billion (U.S.) to buy into a portfolio of 16 office properties in Australia in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.The

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Cheung Kong Infrastructure, HK Electric shrs halted

HONG KONG, July 30 (Reuters) – Trading in shares of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd and Hongkong Electric Holdings Ltd were suspended on Friday, the Hong Kong exchange said.

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Earnings rise sharply for US realty service firms

US commercial real estate has been struggling since it began to weaken in late 2007 Reuters New York: Two of the world’s largest commercial real estate services firms have reported sharply improved earnings, fuelled chiefly by a pickup in building sales

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Noynoy to address real estate sector today

MANILA, Philippines – The 4th Philippine Real Estate Festival (PREF) exhibit and forum opens today at the World Trade Center with President Aquino III to address the annual real estate sector national event as guest of honor and speaker.

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Residential riding high on Macau boom

AS the world’s largest gambling groups began to stake claims in Macau, Tom Ashworth and Martin Tacon decided to try their luck elsewhere.

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Residential riding high on Macau boom

Hong Kong Land Sale Brings in $1.3 Billion

Hong Kong on Wednesday auctioned a plot of land for 10.4 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.3 billion) in its third-most expensive land sale, beating forecasts and adding to fears of a bubble in one of the world’s hottest property markets, Reuters reported.

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Ashley Furniture HomeStore Gets Social

Ashley Furniture HomeStore has stepped into the world of social media with the concurrent launch of its Facebook and Twitter pages to offer consumers a better way to connect to the company online. Consumers are able to follow Ashley on Twitter, while the

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Bernard Hickey – Reserve Bank should target the housing bubble

Now that the world has avoided going over the financial cliff, at least for now, the powers-that-be are doing a post-mortem of what went wrong.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just produced a 42 page paper titled “

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Private equity giants fill funding gap

SOME of the world’s biggest private equity groups, including Partners Group and the US-based Babson group, have set up in Australia.

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Private equity giants fill funding gap