West sees biggest month-to-month rise

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County investigating alleged use of hidden cameras

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WASHINGTON — Major mortgage lenders will now give state and local governments the right to buy foreclosed properties before they go on the market, giving them “a leg up” on speculators who have often thwarted local redevelopment efforts, Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Wednesday.

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HEI Hotels & Resorts (HEI), the nation’s fastest growing private owner/operator of hotel real estate, today announced that it has sold two of its Philadelphia hotels, the 294-room Westin Philadelphia and the 288-room Embassy Suites Philadelphia-Center City, to LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE:LHO), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), for an undisclosed amount. Under terms of the deal ...

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Homes may be rehabbed, rented, resold or demolished

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Critic says legislation was 'unnecessarily burdensome'

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Innkeepers USA Trust was denied by a judge from entering a plan support agreement with Lehman Ali Inc. and Apollo Global Management LLC, a lawyer for Innkeepers’s largest creditor said.

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RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—What’s the number one absolute best way to get more organic traffic to your real estate blog, website or lead capture pages?

Content creation. (“But, what on earth am I supposed to be writing about or videoing,…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—Lately I have been talking to a lot of mortgage lenders and title reps who are trying to find ways to get real estate agents and brokers to start sending business their way in the form of…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—Thanks to some favorable conditions, like perceived value and affordability, international home buyers, especially from Canada, Mexico, China and India are eyeing the U.S. a bit more these days. Over 40% of the international home-buying transactions…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—With more cell phones than desktop computers and more text messages being sent than phone calls being made, it is no surprise that mobile technology is hot topic in many industries; real estate in particular. …

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—“The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is giving homeowners and buyers until October 4, 2010 to lock in a low monthly insurance premium,” said Gibran Nicholas, chairman of the CMPS Institute, an organization that trains and certifies…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—The economic roller coaster we’ve been riding for the past two years seems to have taken its toll—right down to the shoes Americans are wearing and how they are thinking about them. KIWI Shoe Care, part of…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—Foreclosures and REO’s have flooded the market. You need this training to capture all this business. Foreclosed homes usually require a degree of patience in listing them and selling them, and this designation is uniquely equipped to…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—Zillow.com and Apartments.com, two of the nation’s leading online destinations for real estate and multifamily housing, respectively, announced a partnership to bring the Apartments.com national database of 90,000 managed apartment rental listings to Zillow. Apartments.com rental listings…

RISMEDIA, September 2, 2010—Is the REO market winding down? And is it too late to get into the market, if you’re not already getting listings? REO experts Michael Krein, the president of the National REO Brokers Association; Gary Acosta, chairman…

Company shifts focus to social media tools

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