News: Real Estate

Guanacaste, Costa Rica -- On 139 acres of lush, forested mountainside looking out on the Pacific Ocean in Costa Rica's spectacular Guanacaste Province, Jim...

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. -- The Schaffer Realty Group is recommending to retirees, second home and vacation home purchasers, investors and home buyers to take a close look at Flagler County/Palm Coast as now is the time to purchase. The window of opportunity for smart home buyers and real estate investors to own property in Flagler County/Palm Coast Florida at the bottom of the market is now.

MIAMI, Fla. -- The team at BidaBing.com announces the launch of a new real estate auctioning application and nicknames their agent members "BidaBingers." REALTORS(R), buyers, lenders and sellers are all invited to list and bid on foreclosures, short sales, estate sales and other distressed properties.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Dancing Home Travel, Inc. expects to hire a number of real estate brokers and agents to help sell the land parcels owned by Ace Capital Group. Gina Smith, founder of the popular online travel business, Dancing Home Travel, Inc. is now an S-Corporation as of January 2008 and has contracted with a Land Banking Group, Ace Capital.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio homeowners at risk of foreclosure will have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with their mortgage lender at the free HOPE NOW Homeownership Preservation Workshop this Sunday, March 30. Ohio is the second state offering the HOPE NOW workshops, co-sponsored by NeighborWorks(R) America, as part of a national tour aimed at giving struggling homeowners face time with their lender.

MARSHALL, N.C. -- Whisper Mountain, located outside of the city of Asheville in the heart of western North Carolina, is a community where conservation and preservation meet. That's why Southern Living has chosen this community as the location for their first 2008 green Idea House.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- As Chicago's specialist for restaurant and tavern transactions, Tom Bradley, Broker, will be seeking a "multi-location transaction" or the purchase of a small restaurant chain. Thomas J Bradley & Associates owns and operates the BradleyBrokers.com website which generates Illinois' largest, most targeted, web traffic in this brokerage segment.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- The Better Business Bureau of Palm Beach County closed on the recent acquisition of an 11,000 square foot office complex in West Palm Beach. "This property is the perfect location for the Bureau, as it is centrally located and has exceptional access to Interstate 95 which is the main North-South corridor," noted Keyes Company Realtors Commercial Broker Gary Vonk, who represented the seller.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Global Quarters, Inc. has announced its formation as the world's first fractional ownership brokerage, addressing changing trends in the international real estate marketplace. "Three things are changing where and how Americans buy real estate: retiring baby boomers, inherited wealth and technology," says Global Quarters' founder Paula Gold-Nocella.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- U.S. Facilities, Inc. (USF), a leading facilities maintenance and infrastructure support services firm based in Philadelphia, has announced Mr. William H. McAfee, III as its new Chief Operating Officer. The announcement, which was issued on Tuesday by the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, James C. Dobrowolski, will take effect immediately.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Television, newspapers, radio, the Internet, and more - media coverage and speculation over the dismal housing market is inescapable. That is why, today, Win a House America LLC announced plans to give away homes across the country. Their mission is to renew real estate hope and to provide people with opportunity.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Parents are concerned that their children are not playing outside, and they are willing to pay a lot of extra money for a house in a better neighborhood. That's the conclusion of a new survey published on Playborhood.com, an online community for parents who want their children to play outside in their neighborhoods.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The City of Philadelphia awarded U.S. Facilities, Inc. (USF) a four-year contract for facilities operations, maintenance and support services at three of The City's largest municipal buildings (TRIPLEX) located in Center City, Philadelphia.

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently announced that delinquencies and foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market are likely to rise even more; ForeclosureByOwner.org has reacted to the news and launched a web site to help people affordably list their homes before becoming a foreclosure statistic.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Eval D Media, Inc. has announced the introduction of the informational website for real estate investors, www.CreKnow.com. This comprehensive site provides investors with the information needed to make educated real estate purchases. The site also offers investors advice on where to obtain financing and how to operate small commercial real estate or multifamily properties.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- New troubles in the sub-prime segment of the U.S. housing market have made some Americans fearful of losing their homes. As a result, American Business Advantage has partnered with the Community Loan Service Center to launch a national foreclosure prevention program.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What the internet has done for travel, it's about to do for real estate, says enTrust Home Marketing. Travelers used to go to travel agents when they wanted a vacation. Now they go online, where the same work can be done more efficiently on one's own; educated consumers know how to negotiate the best deal and the same can be said for home sellers. More homeowners are choosing to skip the middle-man and sell their homes on their own. They're keeping the commission and saving themselves thousands of dollars in the process.

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- In a slow real estate market, people get creative to sell their property. So Honolulu real estate brokerage firm Elite Pacific Properties is bringing to Hawaii a technique that is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the US: real estate auctions. Elite, which specializes in upscale real estate, has organized Hawaii's biggest ever multi-property auction, to be held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Waikiki on July 14th from 10am-3pm.

AUSTIN, Texas -- One of the first things you notice about Jonathan and Yvette Boatwright is how genuinely cool they are. Owners of the fast-emerging luxury residential marketing organization Realty Austin, the Boatwrights are quintessential Austin A-listers, affable, intelligent, entrepreneurial and passionate about the business they run.

BOSTON, Mass. -- Buildium, LLC announced today the introduction of two new check printing options designed to help streamline accounts payable for landlords and property managers; customers can now independently print MICR-encoded checks on blank check stock or they can outsource check printing and mailing using Buildium's online EZ Mailer(TM) service.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- With global warming at center stage in the current political debate, many homeowners are debating over ways to make their own homes more environmentally friendly. "The good news for buyers and sellers who is that green homes cost less to operate and maintain," reports real estate expert Adrian Willanger. "And even modest eco-friendly improvements can significantly increase the value of a home," he says.

MARTINEZ, Calif. -- There has been much recent press about the decline in new homes sales for the first part of 2007, but Altamont Homes, Inc., a licensed general contractor, has not been negatively affected; the company has recently expanded to seven western states - California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Arizona.

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- PropertyNut LLC announced today that, after two years of development, PropertyNut.com launched in the Arizona market in February as "the Internet Real Estate Marketplace." The design of PropertyNut.com is intuitive, un-intimidating and has generated an amazing return visitor rate (RVR) of over 50%.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- OnBoard LLC expands its Navigator product family to include Navigator CoPilot Agent Edition - an enterprise application that empowers real estate and relocation professionals to quickly respond and cultivate leads through the creation and delivery of custom community and school reports. Agents and users will find Navigator CoPilot to be a tremendous support in managing prospect requests utilizing user defined templates to generate customized content reports based on desired geographic input.

WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. -- Renaissance Resort and Spa, luxury vacation condominium resort on Lake Delton, will add thirty additional units with its phase III addition, "Renaissance Retreat," scheduled for June 2007 completion. Renaissance Resort & Spa is a thirty million-dollar development located on prime waterfront property on one of Wisconsin's most desirable lakes.