All Posts Tagged With: "Jobs"

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Real estate forecast shows signs of progress

Optimism with a lot of caveats was the prevailing theme in Marcus & Millichap’s mid-year retail market outlook, as analysts from the national commercial real estate firm suggested the last two months of bad news on the jobs front represents a “soft
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18Jul2011 | Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Continued
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Real Estate Investors Hungry, Even as Economy Stumbles

Housing economists awoke smugly Friday morning (July 8), eager for the monthly jobs report to affirm their views on the future of US real estate. Bulls and bears alike were in for a shock, however, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a
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11Jul2011 | Minyanville.com | Continued
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MBA: Q1 Databook Shows Real Estate Feeling Effects of Economic Cycle

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Databook showed that recent economic headwinds—slowing GDP growth, a still weak jobs market and other factors—have raised concerns for commercial real estate. Although, so far, most sectors are
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6Jul2011 | Retail Traffic | Continued
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Last-minute talks seek to avert crippling strike

Because the operating engineers are key cogs in the construction process, if they walk off their jobs, it could idle more than 11000 workers at private-sector projects costing nearly $10 billion, according to the Real Estate Board of New York.
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30Jun2011 | Crain's New York Business | Continued
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How Jobs at 75 Cents an Hour are Killing US Real Estate

I’m not sure what pills are used to treat depression, but they ought to be available to real estate buyers and sellers by the bucket. Real estate folks need such pharmaceutical assistance because for the past five years the news has been dominated by
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29Jun2011 | OurBroker.com | Continued
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Michael Fascitelli, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO), and Peter Linneman, principal at real estate consulting firm Linneman Associates, staged a lively discussion about jobs and the economic recovery recovery and their impact on the commercial
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28Jun2011 | reit.com | Continued
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Jobs in Real Estate: Appraiser

Probably one of the most well-known jobs in real estate is that of a real estate appraiser. Appraisers provide professional, objective opinions about the market value of a piece of real estate. There are many reasons to get an appraisal, including if a
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18Jun2011 | Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter | Continued
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Newest hope in real estate: rentals

By JENNIFER HILLER With foreclosures overhanging the home sales market, weak jobs numbers and looming changes that likely will make getting a mortgage more difficult, many economists and real estate industry leaders are pointing to rentals as real
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18Jun2011 | Houston Chronicle | Continued
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Maroone job fair draws wide pool of job applicants

South Florida residents who have worked in fields as varied as healthcare, chocolate-making and real estate lined up on Wednesday to seek jobs as car sales workers and mechanics. They were interviewing at a Maroone car dealership, part of a mass hiring
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15Jun2011 | Sun-Sentinel | Continued
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Report: BN economy enviable, except real estate

(The Pantagraph/RYAN DENHAM) BLOOMINGTON — With retail activity, jobs and tourism headed in the right direction, a new Busey Bank analysis pegs the Twin City real estate market and gas prices as major economic obstacles for 2011.
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15Jun2011 | Bloomington Pantagraph | Continued