Wednesday, March 01 2006 @ 06:34 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
Showing no signs of a slowdown during the period, federal regulators reported Wednesday, Average U.S. home prices leaped nearly 13 percent from the fourth quarter of 2004 to the same period last year.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 09:40 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
A 1946 Supreme Court opinion, Markham v. Allen, defined the exception, which holds that federal courts can hear claims brought by heirs of a decedent’s estate as long as a federal court doesn’t interfere with state court probate proceedings. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case that will determine the scope of the federal courts’ probate exception, once described by Seventh Circuit judge Richard Posner as “one of the most mysterious and esoteric branches of the law of federal jurisdiction.”
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 09:05 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
According to a report from Deutsche Bank, London Real estate companies like Brixton and Slough Estates may be attractive to investors seeking to minimize losses that might result from a feared outbreak of avian influenza in Europe.
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 08:17 pm UTC
Contributed by: jron
Sales declined 5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, leaving a record backlog of 528,000 newly built single-family homes that remain unsold. The nation's new-home market cooled significantly in January despite unseasonably warm weather in most of the country, the Commerce Department reported today.