News tagged with real estate
How public should public records be? Increased availability sparks privacy concerns
Online technology has vastly increased citizens' access to public records such as political campaign contributions and real estate transactions. But that explosion of information availability also sparks privacy concerns ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 16, 2012 |
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Study: The right strategy doesn't guarantee advantage in auctions, real estate or stock market
Who wouldn't pay a penny for a sports car? That's the mentality some popular online auctions take advantage of -- the opportunity to get an expensive item for very little money.
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Study shows how an often illegal sales tactic contributed to housing crash
A study of home purchases during the real estate boom years in Chicago shows how one ethically murky – and sometimes illegal - tactic used to sell homes may have contributed to the housing crash.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Declining energy quality could be root cause of current recession
An overlooked cause of the economic recession in the U.S. is a decade long decline in the quality of the nation's energy supply, often measured as the amount of energy we get out for a given energy input, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2010 |
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LendingTree: Google to compete on loan referrals
(AP) -- LendingTree, which allows prospective borrowers to get quick offers from multiple lenders, claims Google is about to get into the same business.
Aug 27, 2009 |
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NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft
(AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief.
Aug 03, 2009 |
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New research shows that your looks, creditworthiness may go hand in hand
New research suggests that a person's appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University's ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Groupon broaches new segment: Real estate
Chicago real estate brokerage firm Dream Town Realty launches Friday a week-long deal on Groupon, hoping to tap the popular social buying model to attract clients.
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Study: Housing bust could mean lower college attendance
A study published in the October issue of the Journal of Labor Economics suggests an unexpected consequence of the housing bust: lower college attendance.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Zillow real estate value website sets IPO price
Startup Zillow that provides online information about real estate has set the price for its initial public offering of stock at $12 to $14 per share.
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Yahoo! stays in search game with real-time results
Yahoo! on Wednesday began a US rollout of a feature that delivers real time Internet search results as quickly as people can time queries.
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Real estate website Zillow soars in IPO debut
(AP) -- Shares of real estate website Zillow have more than doubled in their trading debut.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Research shows Silicon Valley land conservation didn't hurt housing development
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no secret that the San Francisco Bay Area, where the median house price is $350,000, is home to expensive real estate. Developers have often blamed conservationists for the high costs by arguing that ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 10, 2010 |
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No evidence of a post-Olympics boom or bust for host city real estate prices: study
Cities that win Olympic bids experience neither boom nor bust in their real estate prices, but gain construction jobs as they prepare for the Games, according to researchers at the Sauder School of Business at the University ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Google creates its own real estate boom
Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters mushrooming over the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet, ...
Nov 18, 2010 |
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