North America Real Estate News

   NORMAN — Realtors know technology plays an important role in the real estate industry. The Norman Board of Realtors has scheduled a continuing education program April 27 at the Holiday Inn that will address the connection between real estate trends and technology. Ronald Phipps, president of the National Association of Realtors, and Richard Mendenhall, past president of the [ ... ]

 
  Southampton - A common public misconception is that anyone who holds a real estate license is a Realtor.

   They come from Toronto, London and Dusseldorf, and they're all here for the deals.

  Weeks after a settlement between the Canadian Real Estate Association and federal competition regulators shook up the resale housing industry, the Competition Bureau is investigating separate complaints against CREA, QMI Agency has learned.

 Soly Halabi credits his success to connections and a little luck. Any wealthy mogul with a taste for New York real estate has a favored broker in the city. For Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, it's a 27-year-old junior-college dropout who's yet to meet his famous client.

  President Felipe Calderon is seeking to outlaw many transitions made with large sums of cash in a further bid to combat money laundering in Mexico. If the new laws pass, no one would be allowed to make cash purchases for real estate, automobiles, watches, jewelry, boats and dozens of other luxury items over 100,000 pesos (7,700 dollars).

 An estimated 60 percent of home sales in South Florida these days involve a foreign buyer, according to the Miami Association of Realtors.

That's an astounding number, no matter how you analyze the real estate market. Not only are international buyers playing a key role, they are driving sales at a time when U.S. investors clearly remain wary of pulling the trigger.

To a degree, this is a not [ ... ]

    When investing in real estate, sometimes it’s necessary to look beyond your own backyard. The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN), a national organization of investors, has compiled what it says are the top 10 Canadian cities in which to invest. Few are major cities and some are surprising. Don Campbell, president of REIN, as well as one of the researchers on the study,  [ ... ]

  GULF SHORES, Ala. — Nick Wilmott bent down on the beach near the high-tide mark and touched one of the reddish-brown pads of oil. It had washed up overnight from the BP spill off Louisiana and had yet to be cleaned up by the machines that sweep the beaches here every night.

SANFORD, Fla.—In Central Florida, one of the nation's most-hobbled housing markets, home builders are welcoming what they see as a returning market by snatching up cheap land and beginning construction on smaller, less expensive subdivisions. Home builders have been able to slash prices on new homes, partly because land is still cheap —some say as much as 40% to 60% off boom-era lot price [ ... ]