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WSJ.com: Real Estate
Sweden Sells Property Firm	7/3/2008 6:57 PM
Sweden sold property firm Vasakronan to Fastigheter for $6.88 billion, continuing its privatization drive.
The Home Insulation Conundrum	7/3/2008 1:22 PM
Fiberglass or foam spray? Figuring out what kind of insulation to use in a new house turns out to be a complicated calculation.
Buying a Sense of Security for the Home	7/2/2008 8:07 PM
How would different security companies configure a home with a system, and what would they charge to alert the police about triggered motion sensors? Here's a look at ADT, Brink's, Monitronics and Protection One.
With Energy Rights, Money Trumps All	7/3/2008 9:19 AM
Financial opportunity is outweighing environmental issues for property owners swept up in a land grab by energy companies targeting gas reserves. Rights for deep drilling are fetching as much as $2,500 an acre, or more.
Finding Foreclosures, Screening Deadbeats	7/3/2008 1:08 PM
June Fletcher offers her take on two recently launched sites: RentBureau.com, which helps landlords screen tenants and ForeclosurePoint.com, a listing service.

The Real Estate Bloggers
1 Home in 5 Vacant in Buffalo New York	7/6/2008 9:39 AM
If you want to see what a population decline and too much inventory can do to a city, take a look at Buffalo, New York. The city has seen it’s population decline for the past 50 years and parts of the city are now ghost towns. This is not a result of overbuilding, it is [...]
Top 10 Highest Rental Markets in 2nd Quarter, 2008	7/5/2008 9:05 AM
The rise in rents across the country in major cities is going against the conventional wisdom of the market. You would think with a housing slump that a rents would be going down as inventory increases, but markets such as New York saw rents increase by 7.7% and San Francisco by 9.4%. Sure you can [...]
Trump Tower Tampa Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy	7/5/2008 8:54 AM
SimDag, developers of The Trump Tower Tampa, have filed for bankruptcy protection as the moribund Tampa condo market will not sustain the development of the 52 story project. Even Donald Trump who lent his name to the project, is suing SimDag to have his name removed from the project. Of course for Trump, the lending [...]
Florida Boom And Bust Cycle Repeats Itself	7/5/2008 8:14 AM
The St. Petersburg Times writes a great article on how prone Florida is to the boom and bust cycle. Florida with it’s warm weather and beautiful beaches inspires the imagination and dreams of home buyers. But the unbridled optimism of the human spirit rises up every few years plays havoc with the 1920’s economy of [...]
Happy 4th of July	7/4/2008 9:40 AM
Enjoy the day and think about how blessed you are to live in this great country! Start of the Peachtree City, GA 4th of July Parade Other Posts You May Be Interested In: Housings New Opportunity? Low Cost Housing Developments to Offset Bubble. Flip This House’s Sam Leccima Show A Fraud, No License and No Sales Centex Sells 8.500 [...]

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