Commercial Property
Ideal Property for Clients by Tampa Commercial Real Estate Firm
Commercial real estate must be carefully matched to the business and office needs of each client. The potential buyer or company wanting to lease a property needs more than just the exact size requirements met. It is important that it have the kind of building needed. A company may need a combination of industrial or retail space plus office space. The broker, Steven Silverman of Tampa Commercial Real Estate, recently located a suitable building for... »
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Congress Is Asked to Provide a Fixed Tax Code
Congress should not shackle the housing industry: higher property tax is a mistake at this time. The housing industry is just beginning to encourage a cheering section once again. What is congress thinking by throwing any kind of wrench into the newly moving machinery? Builders... »
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Block 37 Mall in Chicago’s Loop Sold to LA Real Estate Fund
Amidst the recent activity in the commercial real estate market, one large transaction was finalized. The Block 37 Mall, a four-level high shopping complex was sold to CIM Group, which is an LA based real estate fund. The sale of this often-troubled giant shopping center... »
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Cash Sales Are Majority of International Commercial Real Estate Sales
It’s a 90 percent cash sales market among the International commercial real estate investors. The editor of HousingPredictor reports that 65 percent of all condo and house sales in Miami are cash sales. This popular Florida port city is rapidly recovering while the rest of... »
Residential Property
Sellers Find Multiple Housing Market Bids
Chicago has had its real estate recession like many other areas in the country. One Chicago homeowner had a nice surprise when she listed her house. The home, located in the Edgebrook suburb of Chicago had a showing a couple of hours after the listing became active. There were more showings to follow closely. In twelve days, a sales contract was written up.
The owner, of course, was very happy with all the activity. She... »
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Home Buyers and Sellers Use Energy Audits
There is one step for the home shopper to consider doing for protection against future home heating bills and that is Energy Audits: Home buyers & sellers. A formal audit can be done as part of the usual inspection. It is possible for the buyer... »
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As the Price of a Home Falls: The Cost of Rent Rises
Real estate investors take opportunity to purchase at low prices and then rehab the property and rent it at a substantial rent. The cost of rent has increased concomitant with the increased number of foreclosures. Those who lose their homes must have a place to... »
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Rates of Home Ownership in the United States at Fifteen Year Low
In the first quarter of 2012 the share of privately owned U.S. residential property dropped to the lowest point it had been at in fifteen years. The rate fell to 65.4 percent, which was the lowest percentage since 1997.
The lowest rates were in the... »
Green Home
Texas Custom Homebuilder Creates Fully Green Home at No Extra Cost
A builder of custom homes in Texas has proved once and for all that there is simply no need to ever break the bank in order to construct truly green homes. The company in question, Dallas base Greenbrook Homes, has just been awarded an LEED gold certification for its most recent green home project, which was built at standard market cost.
The design of the home includes Water Sense Plumbing, which reduces the overall amount... »
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GE Backs MPX to Double Solar Energy Production in Brazil
GE (NYSE: GE) and MPX, a division of EBX Group, owned by businessman Eike Batista, have agreed to double the output of MPX’s first solar power plant in Brazil.
The announcement was deemed as an important step for both MPX and GE to help provide... »
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Retrofit Power Systems Decrease Energy Loss, Lower Cooling Requirements
GE Energy (NYSE: GE) is accelerating energy efficiency upgrades across telecom outside plants, cell sites and central offices as it has announced its broad portfolio of Retrofit Power Systems (RPS) that decrease Eenergy loss and lower cooling requirements with power electronics efficiency approaching 97 percent... »
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Largest Biogas Plant, Hungary Backs Renewable Energy Goals, European Union’s 20/20/20 Initiative
Hungary’s largest biogas plant powered by GE’s (NYSE: GE) ecomagination-qualified, Jenbacher J416 biogas engines can generate 4.2 megawatts of renewable electricity and an equal amount of thermal energy to support the plant’s onsite operations as well as the local grid.
The biogas plant was formally... »