Similar to many developers moving ahead with new condo projects recently, Mr. Eichner is targeting the upper end of the market, real-estate executives said.
Another economic downturn could blunt demand for top-of-the-market real estate.
Say what you will about the benefits of clean energy or the costs of pollution, the jury has returned an unambiguous verdict on the greening of the commercial real-estate market.
This green-induced convergence is also shaking up the competitive dynamics of the commercial real-estate market, creating opportunities for small companies to become big companies and big companies to become still bigger.
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The campaign was aimed primarily at the high end of the real-estate market by making it much more difficult to speculate in real estate by buying multiple apartments.
The trend reflects the strength of the luxury real-estate market.
Paying attention to the vagaries of the local real-estate market, where inventory and prices can fluctuate week to week, will offer more guidance to sellers than simple seasonal trends.
Mr. Shvo said he decided to scale back even earlier, at the end of 2007, when he realized the market "couldn't sustain" the excess of if real-estate investment.
And sure enough, the greed got seriously out of hand and then imploded, in fact twice, once with the bursting of the stock market bubble of 2000, and then even more seriously with the real estate and sub-prime mortgage bubble and resulting financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
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The 2.4-acre estate sits on Aspatuck Creek waterfront in the Quogue real estate market of eastern Long Island and comes with a 3, 654-square-foot home with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 fireplaces and a Gunite pool and spa.
This turn-of-the-20th century home in the San Francisco real estate market may have even seen its share of spies back in the day.
In the case of the U.S. economy now, the double-whammy of wealth shocks from the real-estate bubble and the stock-market crash has made consumers understandably cautious.
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"Stuyvesant was not necessarily a reflection of the bad real estate market, but rather over-ambitious assumptions, lack of risk controls and poor contingency planning, " explains Burt White, managing director of research and chief investment officer of LPL Financial, further asserting that the bottom dropped out of the market months ago.
Weary of the wobbly stock market and alarmed by the real estate runup, they were lured by eye-popping returns of 50% a year (or better) at a few elite funds.
Known as a ski-resort city, the tourist destination has attracted celebrities and affluent socialites for decades helping to transform the Aspen real estate market into a mix of high-end luxury homes and condos.
This is all happening on the edge of the West End, the most expensive real-estate market in the world.
She has also been encouraging the development of the German real estate market, which suffered from a construction overhang post-reunification but is now seeing interest from hedge funds.
But his exuberantly bullish view of the real-estate market doesn't help.
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Banks in the United Arab Emirates are tiptoeing back into real-estate lending as the property market shows signs of stability.
But he said such misperceptions and complaints about shortages and high prices have been staples of the Manhattan real-estate market for 100 years.
Gerald Hines learned caution in the boom-bust real estate market of Houston, where he landed in 1950 after graduating from Purdue University with an engineering degree.
China Vanke, the country's biggest real estate developer by market value, hit the daily up-limit of 10 percent on the Shenzhen bourse after announcing plans to shift trading of its foreign-currency shares to Hong Kong.
Most succeeded by either dominating the local market (most of the richest people in China now lead domestically-focused consumer goods, real estate or Internet companies), or assembling PCs, phones, components, tablets, printers or other gadgets designed by overseas firms.
Shortly after the collapse of the real estate market and the ensuing truncated deflationary-depression, Bernanke took interest rates to near zero percent.
These ordinarily smart investors are still betting that Corus' exposure to the commercial real-estate lending market (one of its big businesses is arranging condominium loans) is prone to a stumble.
The CMBS market is watched closely in the commercial real-estate industry because the securities are an important source of finance.
"In the residential market, the policy restrictions will not be relaxed anytime soon, " said Stanley Ching, head of the real-estate group at Citic Capital in Hong Kong.
Forecasts for both variants of the Case-Shiller Index are based on the current Zillow Home Value Index value for July, which we released as part of our Real Estate Market Reports a couple weeks ago, the June Case-Shiller home indices numbers and the national percentage for foreclosure re-sales in July , which can be found in the Zillow real estate market reports.
Even with home values down--80% of the market is distressed sales, says Dan DeNuccio, a real estate broker with Prudential Americana Group in Las Vegas.
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