Journals By Industry - Housing Market

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Last year proved to be difficult to describe. The economy didn't experience a double-dip recession as some had feared, though recovery is too strong a word to describe it. The Eurozone did not...

Denis O'Brien, an Irish billionaire who runs the telecom Digicel, recently recently presided over the opening of the 50th school that his company has rebuilt since the quake struck in 2010, and then...

Puerto Rico residents continued their exodus from the island over the past year during tough economic times, with the local population shrinking by 19,099 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, reports Caribbean...

HEADNOTE According to participants in the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an...

While the housing market has a long, hard road ahead of it, signs abound that the market is finally in the throes of a genuine, sustainable recovery. Among the key statistics and forecasts...

Home buyers' confidence in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China declined 3.2 points sequentially to 106.6 points in the four quarter of 2011. The decline was mainly due to the government's policies with the aim...

After doubling its investment in a joint venture with Evergrande Real Estate Group, Blackstone group said that it will actively look for future real estate investment opportunities in China. Evergrande's subsidiary bought a...

The power and water desalination complexes in Oman are the biggest users of energy, mainly natural gas. Consumption by the expanding utilities sector is to rise rapidly, estimated at the rate of 9%...

In his third State of the Union address to the US Congress, President Barack Obama on Jan. 24 said he was "determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon", stressing: "I will...

An apartment building spree downtown is getting fresh fuel with an $85 million development proposed for surface parking lots just south of the Cosmopolitan on the Canal. The plan--first reported on IBJ.com on...

Gas selection from Russian storage facilities reaches new record Gas selection from Russian underground gas storage facilities reached a new record of 564.9 million cubic meters on January 25, the Central Dispatching Department...

Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $17.9 million, compared to $16.7 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Net earnings for the fiscal year 2011 were $1.3 million or...

Reports from two Long Island real estate brokerages show that the housing market is still struggling. Pending sales - homes in contract - dropped 7 percent to 4,134 contracts in the fourth quarter...

Sumer Liebold, 28, moved to Colorado Springs from Gunnison to study business at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She started a corporate housing business as soon as she finished school and...

The average sales price for a home in foreclosure in the New Orleans area from July through September was less than the second quarter price and down from the comparable period in 2010,...

Rachel Dalton The old adage 'my house is my pension' - predictably popular in an era when house prices boomed - is now accepted to be an unwise approach to retirement saving. But...

Early last year, Jon Sader and his team of eight at Sader Power faced the same hurdle most solar power installation companies do -- cost. The typical residential solar power system can easily...

The number of mortgage loans paid off, an indicator of real estate market health, fell 6.4 percent statewide from 2010 to 2011. However, the number of loan payoffs rose from the third to...