Best Buy founder looks at Portland properties
Richard Schulze, the founder and chairman of Best Buy Co. Inc., has launched a real estate investment partnership with Gerald Rauenhorst, the founder and former CEO of Opus Corp. bizjournals.com |
Overhaul Beneficiary: Medical Offices?
Thanks in part to the health-care overhaul, there is the prospect that 32 million additional people with health insurance may drive new demand for medical office space. online.wsj.com |
Land Securities Is in Partner Talks
Land Securities Group is expected to sign a joint-venture deal to develop its "Walkie Talkie" skyscraper project in the City of London by the summer, a person familiar with the matter said. online.wsj.com |
Rise of the renting class
Modern America has long paired the "America Dream" with home ownership. The idea of staying put, paying property taxes and periodically mowing the lawn belonged to citizens who were somehow more American than the poor saps who could only afford to rent the place they called home. rss.cnn.com |
It's time to stop blaming the lenders
Before we take the entire banking industry to task on the foreclosure mess, it bears reminding that the source of the problem is people who bought homes they couldn't afford. Let's blame them, too. rss.cnn.com |