29
Dec
Commercial Real Estate To Improve Moderately In 2012
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As per a recent survey it has been observed that there will be a fall in vacancy rates in commercial real estate in 2012. This forecast has been done by The National Association of Realtors as per a report which was released on Monday. The forecast predicts moderate improvement in market of commercial real estate. As per the survey even though it continues to be a tenant's market, with concessions, soft leases, and flat vacancy rates, the market for commercial real estate would show modest signs of improvement in the coming year due to moderate economic growth and more job prospects. NAR projections state that office vacancies in commercial real estate will decline by 0.6 per cent by the end of 2012. Similarly vacancies in industrial real estate would decline by 0.4 percent and in retail by 0.8 percent.



25
Dec
Our Next Vacation: Looking to Buy Property for a Vacation Home
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Having been fortunate enough to have done quite a lot traveling up to this point, my husband and I would like to buy property to have as our vacation home. So our next vacation will be spent traveling to a few different places, scouting things out. We weighed out the pros and cons of having a vacation home vs. traveling to different places for vacation and we've really mulled over what vacation means to us now. We ultimately decided that at this point, we'd like to build up the familiarity of going to a place that is our second home. We find that notion comforting and we like the fact that we can make it our own, furnish it as we'd like, etc. We can also build friendships in the locality. We found that these dimensions to vacationing are what would give us the most pleasure at this point. We also thought that it would be a nice idea to put things that we've bought throughout our travels into the house…in a sense, building a sense of continuity with our past vacations and our future ones!

14
Sep
Property Investor Ponzi Scheme In The Real Estate Market
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Anthony F. Cutaia is a Florida TV and radio personality who has been accused on 9 separate counts of mail fraud for his alleged involvement in a real estate market property investor Ponzi scheme.

Cutaia is known in the local real estate community of Boynton Beach, FL as the former host of the radio and TV program "Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate." He has been accused of defrauding investors while he managed CMG Property Investment Group, which recruited investors by promising to use their funds to acquire commercial real estate investment properties. Rather than allowing investors to make gains on the buying and selling of properties, though, it's alleged that Cutaia operated a Ponzi scheme where he used the funds from new investors to make payments on other investor accounts.