Post Tagged with: "Real Estate"

HBO’s Entourage reached its final season two years ago but fans have a lot to look forward to with production of the series first movie [...]

Barron’s holds an annual roundtable with leading industry professionals to discuss their top investment picks and outlook on the coming year. Part I and Part II were [...]

Jonathan Grey, global head of Real Estate for Blackstone Investment Group, recently went on Bloomberg to discuss their view on funds purchasing distressed properties and his market outlook for investment opportunities. Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman of Blackstone, recently told Bloomberg that, “This is the kind of thing that happens once — every once in a while, where you see something that’s a market-turning trend and we are loading the boat”. The firm has purchased over 10,000 foreclosed homes so far and is spending at a rate of $100M/week to expand its holdings.

Their is a relatively large supply of properties available for buyers interested in purchasing their own private island. WSJ takes a look at a handful of available locations, ranging in price from $30M+ to $175,000.

The $31 Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Och-Ziff Capital Management is preparing to exit the foreclosed homes business. The fund Manager Daniel Och recently told his [...]

For some time I have thought of real estate as having a cult-like following. Talking to people about real estate seems to share commonalities those looking for the mothership; reason is out the window. Lately it seems that everyone sees real estate as the investment of choice offering the highest rate of return and greater safety.

In April, the Economist ran an article explaining that US home prices have continued to slide even as interest rates fall (usually something that spurs [...]

It seems that our nation’s largest store of value is almost out of the woods. Ever since the housing boom reached its peak in 2006, [...]

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