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Porsche Building – At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home
The latest twist on designer parking garages: a Jetsonesque elevator that whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat. By Lidia Dinkova Pull over into the designated space. Turn off the engine. And enjoy the oceanfront view as you escalate in a glass elevator that takes you, while you are ...
How to develop a killer marketing plan
By Melinda Emerson on January 20, 2012 If it has been a long time since you looked at your business plan and now you’re ready to kick off your business for the new year, here’s a tip: Start with the marketing plan first. There are two reasons for this: 1) You must know who is ...
Portfolio Management Tips For Young Investors
I would like to thank Marc Davis for this post and information herein. Too many young people rarely, or never, invest for their retirement years. Some distant date, 40 or so years in the future, is hard to imagine. However, without investments to supplement retirement income, if any, retirees will have a difficult time paying ...
World Bank warns on risk of global recession
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney January 18, 2012: 6:51 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The World Bank Wednesday slashed its 2012 growth forecasts for both emerging and developing economies from its estimates of only six months ago, and warned the world is on the cusp of a new global recession that could be as bad ...
A market in real estate fraud
Some say today’s real estate market conditions are ripe for a reprise of some of the worst behavior of the boom and bust. Could today’s seductive conditions in the housing market — severely marked-down prices, record low interest rates and hundreds of thousands of foreclosures waiting to be resold — be breeding new generations of ...
South Florida’s housing bubble compared to the nation’s.
South Florida really should have seen this coming: a look back at how our housing bubble compared to the nation’s. South Florida’s housing crash may be old news, but recent data offer some valuable perspective. The Federal Housing Finance Agency maintains appreciation indices for metropolitan areas, which are similar to the famous Case-Shiller index but ...
Miami Resort casino debate could become epic battle
As each of the state’s most powerful business and political interests line up to fight over the fate of destination Miami Resort Casino, emotional appeals for jobs will be pitted against emotional concerns about the future of Florida by Mary Ellen Klas TALLAHASSEE — Despite the promise of thousands of jobs and the millions of ...
Psychology of Home: Why Where You Live Means So Much
My house is a shrine to my homes. There’s a triptych of sunsets next to my bedroom door, dusk forever falling over the small Michigan town where I grew up, the beach next to my college dorm and Place de la Concorde in Paris, where I spent a cliché but nonetheless happy semester. And that’s ...
Miami Real Estate Market Embraces Brazilians
In Miami, foreigners account for more than 65 percent of all condo and home sales, according to the Miami Association of Realtors. MIAMI — In 2008 the real estate market in this “Gateway to Latin America” was in the dumps, with the hottest deals involving foreclosures. And the future looked as dark as many of ...
A Plan for 2012 That You’ll Actually Follow
By Carl Richards Carl Richards is a certified financial planner in Park City, Utah. His sketches are archived here on the Bucks blog. His new book, “The Behavior Gap,” will be out in January. For 2012, I have a challenge for you: make financial decisions on purpose. Too much of what we do is based ...
Finally, Some excellent investment advice: Don’t Play The Losers’ Game
by Henry Blodget If you’re an individual with some money to invest, the first thing you need to know if you want to invest intelligently is that you shouldn’t play the Losers’ Game. What’s the Losers’ Game? The game that 99.9% of the people who talk about investing appear to be playing: Namely, following global ...
Casinos could be jackpot for condo-hotels
Real estate developers, sales agents and unit owners are preoccupied with visions of how casinos could provide further stimulus for the South Florida condo market. By Peter Zalewski Special To The Miami Herald South Florida’s condo industry is reaching an almost giddy level of optimism in anticipation of the January session of the Florida legislature, ...
Where to Invest 2012
I found this article very interesting in essence and guidance at Wall Street Journal By
Time for Home Buyers to Go Long
By Quentin Fottrell Though real estate prices are barely budging, experts say this may be a good time to buy a house. But only for those willing to stay put. On the face of it, the latest news doesn’t bode well for potential house buyers. House prices will steadily rise in 2012 but economists don’t ...
Take action while interest rates are record low
While many prospective buyers remain “on the fence” concerned housing prices may fall further or while they remain focused on squeezing the sellers to perhaps unrealistic valuations, it may be a good idea to highlight the small benefit in a reduced price versus the potentially high risk that mortgage rates will increase and the long ...
Market News
- Obama administration expands foreclosure prevention program January 28, 2012The Obama administration is taking another swing at improving its main foreclosure prevention program. […]
- Retirement saving: Don't shortchange the later years January 27, 2012Many people think they can plan on spending less later in retirement since they'll become less active as they age. But if their health declines, they may actually shift spending rather than reduce it. Do you think it's risky to plan as if one's expenses will go down later in retirement? --Tim, U.K. […]
- Dow breaks 3-week winning streak January 27, 2012U.S. stocks ended mostly lower Friday as jittery investors digested a weaker-than-expected economic growth report and as Europe's debt crisis still loomed in the background. […]
- FDA blocks orange juice shipments from Canada January 27, 2012The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had detained orange juice shipments from Canada after they tested positive for low levels of a banned fungicide previously found in Brazilian juice. The FDA announced earlier this month that it would begin testing foreign orange juice shipments for the presence of the fungicide carbendazim before allowing […]
- Mortgage probe unveiled as foreclosure talks loom January 27, 2012President Obama's latest probe into the mortgage meltdown will have more power than past efforts, and federal officials say it won't derail a possible $20 billion settlement for underwater and foreclosed homeowners. […]
- Italy, Spain downgraded by Fitch January 27, 2012Fitch downgraded the sovereign debt ratings Friday of five European countries, with Italy and Spain taking the biggest hit. […]
- The anti-Kodak: Eastman Chemical January 27, 2012It is every parents' dream that their children enjoy a better life than they have. I am not sure if that's also true for parent companies and their offspring. […]
- SEC to step up scrutiny of private equity firms January 27, 2012The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows. […]
- Ford: Biggest profit since '98 January 27, 2012Ford reported its best annual earnings since 1998 on Friday, making 2011 the second most profitable year in the company's 109-year history. […]
- Millions in SOPA lobbying bucks gone to waste January 27, 2012The controversial anti-piracy bills that attracted tens of millions of dollars of lobbying for and against the proposed laws ironically were killed by free publicity. […]
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