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Source: Motley Fool (Original Article)

The first 100 days in office sets the tone for any new president. Similarly, Motley Fool CAPS keeps an eye on members who score 100 points of market outperformance on stock picks in their first 100 days. Here we’re looking at our All-Stars who made some of their best stock selections early on and seeing which ones they think will do best next.

One of our highest-rated ones is urmoney, who sports a 99.68 member rating and is No. 222 among more than 160,000 members. Below are a few of this top member’s most recent selections and how they were rated.

Source: Motley Fool CAPS; *price when call was made. Current score is how many points by which a member is beating (lagging) the S&P 500 index since the time of the call.

Let’s take a look at what other CAPS members are saying about these stocks and whether they agree with this top player’s assessment.

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When logic becomes disconnected from reality, you get what All-Star CAPS member UltraLong elegantly describes as a “What the [heck] Rally.” Housing starts fall, legislation is passed that might reshape our economy, international finances are a shambles, jobless claims are still high, and consumer confidence is still down. So what’s an investor to do? Bid up stocks even higher.

UltraLong highlights Maguire Properties as just one example of what happens when reason takes flight. “Companies like Maguire Properties can report FIVE times its market value in yearly losses and move higher.”

Maguire Properties last year stopped paying the mortgage on six buildings that have loans on them totaling $885 million, all the while accruing interest at a 5% rate. It also had $125 million in debt that was scheduled to mature in May, but with the sale of one of its buildings, Maguire has been relieved of that burden. While it has paid down its debt to just $3.4 billion (from $5 billion two years ago), it has just $218 million in cash in budget travel advice the bank. Yes, by all means, let’s …continue reading

Source: USA Today (Original Article)

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SHENZHEN, China — In this former Chinese fishing village where skyscrapers are springing up almost as quickly as the population of 9 million is growing, it’s not hard to find people who think real estate prices will keep rising, as well.

Zhao Jin is a believer. In late 2008, as sales of the licorice-scented tea that Zhao exports from Hunan province took off, he bought a modest three-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Shenzhen. The property’s value has soared 63%, prompting an avalanche of calls from property agents asking whether he wants to sell (the answer is no).

“Property prices will definitely go up more,” says Zhao, who, like many others, moved here for job opportunities. “I’m an example of why the demand for real estate is there. People hear their country boy did good and come to seek their own fortunes.”

The migration of China’s rural dwellers to its cities, along with rising income and the population’s aversion to debt, explain why many think soaring real estate prices pose little immediate threat to the economy.

But China’s frenzied real estate market is starting to turn optimists into pessimists, who say this sector could be the next big economic bust. The fear is that a collapse of China’s property market could hamper global recovery by rocking stock markets and sinking consumer confidence around the world. It also could sharply reduce China’s demand for U.S. exports, slowing the growth of the American economy.

Skeptics point to signs that consumer exuberance in China has reached a dangerous level: buyers snapping up luxury properties purely for investment; residential prices rising precipitously across the nation; and vacancy rates soaring for commercial properties.

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Source: PR-USA.net (press release) (Original Article)

Innovative Mortgage Match Button Establishes Homebuyers Purchasing Power

ICanBuy is pleased to announce the launch of its Mortgage Match Button, a sophisticated, user friendly, online widget for real estate websites that offers homebuyers an instant “reality check” about what price home they can truly afford to buy – and who will lend to them.

Most homebuyers fall in love with a house and then try to figure out how to afford it. ICanBuy’s Mortgage Match Button solves this dilemma. First, ICanBuy match button spells out, upfront, the maximum home purchase price a buyer can afford and the maximum loan amount for which the buyer will qualify. The button then, offers a comparison snapshot of live, real-time, mortgage rates from several national direct lenders, enabling homebuyers to choose the best loan program for the property. This empowers consumers to base the most important financial decisions of their lives – buying a home – on solid, reliable information.

There is a lot of confusion today about mortgage loans – Are any available? Who can qualify for them? What are the real rates? – ICanBuy’s Mortgage Match Button answers both questions for any homebuyer.

The Mortgage Match Button tool is especially beneficial to real estate listing websites because it helps site visitors determine exactly how much they qualify for as they shop, and provides more lending options from which to choose. Having this information turns more shoppers into buyers – a boon for any real estate company.

Alex Aydin, ICanBuy founder and CEO, remarked, “The ICanBuy team has worked round- the-clock for almost four years, putting everything we have into perfecting the back-end of our Mortgage Match engine. We constantly update our database with current mortgage flights from Sydney to Bundaberg rate information, and correlate them with bank, …continue reading

Source: ArabianBusiness.com (Original Article)

Office rents in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) are now the second highest across the Europe, Middle East and African region after being less impacted by the global real estate slump, a new report has revealed.

Latest research from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) shows that prime office rents in DIFC in the final quarter of 2009 averages €819 per sq m per annum ($1,121), second only to London’s West End (€972).

The other cities that make up the top 5 are Paris (€720), Moscow at €594, with Geneva and Zurich jointly fifth at €573.

Relative to the rest of its EMEA neighbours, the 12 month loss for DIFC has been “somewhat less drastic”, the report said.

Moscow has lost 43.3 percent of its value, followed closely by Dublin on 39.6 percent and St Petersburg on 38.5 percent.

DIFC lost 27.3 percent of its value, while London West End fared even better, losing just 17.9 percent of its value.

Matthew Green, head of research UAE, CB Richard Ellis Middle East, said: “Rents within the DIFC Freezone have seen a level of protection during the downturn, however we are now starting to see some movement in negotiation levels within both DIFCA and privately managed buildings.

“The local market environment will continue to face new challenges during 2010 and this is sure to create additional cost implications for occupiers, especially those in prime locations such as the DIFC.

“It will thus be the responsibility of the DIFCA and the estate management to effectively mitigate and govern the situation by acknowledging and responding to market pressures, in order to maintain focus, retain current tenants and to continue to attract new global brands in the future.”

CB Richard Ellis also said that Q4 2009 witnessed an increase in occupier interest and activity as office market cheap flights Gold Coast to Emerald conditions in Dubai moved further in the tenants’ favour.

Source: PR-USA.net (press release) (Original Article)

Cornish & Carey Expands Into the North Bay with Two New Offices

Cornish & Carey Commercial/ONCOR International (C&C), the dominant real estate force in Northern California, today announced its expansion to the North Bay region with the establishment of two new offices in Larkspur and Santa Rosa. The Larkspur office, located directly across from the Ferry Terminal in the Larkspur Landing Shopping Center at 2421 Larkspur Landing Circle, opened on Monday, March 1st. The Santa Rosa office, located in the Waterfall Towers at 2455 Bennett Valley Road, will open the week of March 8, 2010. Senior Vice President Haden Ongaro will manage both offices.

“I am very exited that Cornish & Carey has realized our 10-year strategic business plan to expand into the North Bay,” said C&C CEO Chuck Seufferlein. “Establishing a presence in this important region completes our Northern California footprint.”

C&C already maintains offices in 11 other cities: Santa Clara, Palo Alto, San Mateo, San Francisco, Oakland, Walnut Creek, Emeryville, Pleasanton, Hayward, Roseville and Sacramento.

The new C&C Larkspur office is home to 14 agents and the Santa Rosa office will open with 6 agents. C&C plans to double the sales force in both locations. Both offices staff a range of C&C services to include office, R&D, industrial and investment sales specialists. C&C plans to add retail and multi-family experts in these locations in the near future.

“Growing our business into the expansive North Bay market of more than 80 million square feet of commercial real estate space is a significant advancement for our firm,” said Mr. Seufferlein. “In true C&C fashion, we are entering the market with leadership, expertise and a focus on the client experience. We are flights from Melbourne (Tullamarine) to Adelaide proud to have populated our new offices …continue reading

Source: Boston Globe (Original Article)

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Mass. executive has been at vanguard of change since coming aboard at Microsoft

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When Ray Ozzie began meeting regularly with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in the mid-1980s, he was developing the collaboration software that would eventually become Lotus Notes. Ozzie thought they were talking about the technical intricacies of how Notes would interact with Microsoft’s products. But the meetings turned out to be the early stages of a job interview.As Ozzie kept developing his Notes software for Cambridge-based Lotus Development Corp. and later started his own company, Gates continued to track him from afar, describing him to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer as one of the best people in the software industry who didn’t already work for Microsoft.In March of 2005, with Ozzie’s start-up close to running out of money, Gates finally found his chance to bring Ozzie onboard. Microsoft had been the biggest outside investor in Groove Networks Inc., the Beverly-based company that had built a new online collaboration system and raised more than $150 million in funding. Though Ozzie told me repeatedly it wasn’t part of his plan to sell to the Redmond, Wash., behemoth, Microsoft acquired Groove for a bargain price not for its product, former Groove executives say, but for Ozzie and his close-knit team of experienced programmers.The following summer, Gates an nounced that he had selected Ozzie to succeed him as Microsoft’s chief cheap flights from Sydney to Karratha software architect, charged with helping the 93,000-employee …continue reading

Source: BusinessWeek (Original Article)

By MARCY GORDON

U.S. regulators fended off complaints Friday from lawmakers and small business owners that overly strict rules for banks have prevented crucial credit from flowing to where it is needed most.

U.S. bank lending last year posted the steepest drop since World War II, with the volume of loans falling by $587.3 billion, or 7.5 percent, from 2008. And some lawmakers are laying the blame on the policies of federal regulators.

At stake at a House hearing was a $30 billion small-business lending fund for banks proposed by President Barack Obama. Criticism echoed that while big Wall Street banks got multibillion-dollar bailouts, community banks that played no role in stoking the financial crisis have been subjected to overly strict directives that are squeezing credit for local businesses.

Martin Gruenberg, the No. 2 official of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., disputed accusations that the agency has discouraged banks from extending loans to small business and for commercial real estate.

The FDIC gives banks "considerable flexibility" in decisions to extend loans, Gruenberg said. "We do not instruct banks to curtail prudently managed lending activities."

Federal Reserve Gov. Elizabeth Duke said the central bank and other financial regulators have called on banks to meet the needs of creditworthy borrowers.

Small businesses are seen as a linchpin for the recovery, with the potential to expand and soak up some of the nearly 10 percent unemployment that has ravaged the country and preoccupied Congress.

A House committee chairman urged the Obama administration to work with lawmakers seeking to send federal bailout money directly to small businesses rather than through banks.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., head of the House Financial Services Committee urged the administration to work on legislation with Rep. Nydia Velazquez, cheap domestic flights from Melbourne (All Airports) to Townsville D-N.Y., who heads the Small Business Committee.

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Source: PR.com (press release) (Original Article)

Naples, FL, February 20, 2010 –(PR.com)– Southwest Florida’s foremost leader in home building and real estate solutions, The Aubuchon Team of Companies, announces a division of their company, The Sterling Collection, recently won several awards from the 2010 LEE BIA Parade of Homes for its newest home, The 2010 Home of the Year. (www.bia.net/parade-of-homes.html).

The Sterling Collection’s 2010 Home of the Year received:

Superior Home
Best Exterior
Best Landscape
Best Kitchen
Best Bath
Best Livability
Best Interior Design
Best Outdoor Living
Best Pool

Free tours of this home continue today through Sunday, February 21, 2010. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5:00 p.m.

The Aubuchon Team of Companies also announces a new model opening at Magnolia Landing Golf Club in North Fort Myers, this Saturday, February 20, 10 am – 5 pm, at 3226 Magnolia Landing Lane. This gated golf course community is 2.3 miles north of Del Prado Boulevard, or approximately 1 mile south of the Lee/Charlotte County line. Grand Opening specials are being offered including complete home and golf course lot packages starting at $185,900.

Says Diane VanArsdale, Director of Marketing and Sales for The Aubuchon Team of Companies: “We’ve listened to our customers and responded by delivering more affordable home building options. Our company has worked hard to lower costs and increase efficiencies, to deliver great pricing to our customers. Couple this with the recovery of the housing market and you’ll find this is definitely the right time to build.”

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Source: FOXBusiness (Original Article)

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 17, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —- The SpringHill Suites by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown and Courtyard by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown are opening for business
on Thursday, February 18. These two properties join the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown and TGI
Friday’s (opened February 3) and the JW Marriott Indianapolis Downtown (opening February, 2011) to make up the landmark, $450
million Indianapolis Marriott Place development, which is changing the face of downtown Indianapolis.

“Just as Indianapolis is continuing to grow, Marriott Place is growing with the addition of these two new properties,”
said Michael Kauffeld, general manager of the SpringHill Suites and Courtyard by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown. “With these
two new hotels now open, travelers to Indianapolis have more options than ever before, steps from great attractions like White
River State Park, the NCAA Hall of Champions, the Indiana State Museum and the Convention Center.”

The SpringHill Suites is targeted to business and leisure travelers who are looking for dependable service, exceptional
value, and amenities like a complimentary breakfast, free wireless Internet service and indoor pool.

With 156 comfortable, oversized guest suites, the SpringHill Suites was created with a Midwest Modern design, featuring
blues, greens and light wood accents. The lobby welcomes guests with a large check-in area, and a breakfast section where
each morning guests will find the complimentary “Suites Seasons” breakfast.

The Courtyard by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown offers 297 spacious guest rooms and amenities like a lobby GoBoard
– a large screen that spotlights news, weather and local events; free high-speed wireless Internet; and The Bistro restaurant
and bar, serving Starbucks Coffee. The Courtyard by Marriott Indianapolis Downtown is particularly appealing to cheap flights from Gold Coast to Cairns business travelers
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