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Nomonde Mapetla, the ousted CEO of the Estate Agency Affairs Board, has gone to court to have her dismissal overturned.

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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Indian diaspora on the East coast was treated to a visual display of real estate investment opportunities at a gala dinner featuring finished and planned projects by New York based Ireo on Saturday in Vienna, Virginia.

“If you are interested in real estate space in India, be it for yourself – your family – or simply an investment, there is no better place to put your money then with Ireo,” Vijay Amritraj, international tennis legend and former United Nations Ambassador told AHN on the sidelines of the glittering show.

Answering, “Why should I mess (read: invest) in India – when I live here?” the core question of Indian Americans settled in the United States, Anjali Grover, of Ireo, told the select audience of rich and famous gathered at the “Bombay Tandoor Restaurant,” that the projects, some of which are completed, some are in the building stage while others are on the architects’ drawing tables, are all on par with the American standards in quality and safety.

Sitting in the United States, the investor can use easy means to invest and own or sell later with Ireo providing personalized services all the way, she added.

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Citibank, N.A., sold $1.4 billion in loans. Both multifamily and commercial real estate transactions were part of the deal. The buyer in the transaction, OneWest Bank, FSB, said in a news release that the acquisition involved 600 loans.

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE:NHI) announced today that it will pay a fourth quarter dividend of 60.5 cents per common share to shareholders of record on December 31, 2010 and payable on January 31, 2011. National Health Investors, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust that specializes in the financing of healthcare real estate by purchase and leaseback transactions and by mortgage loans. NHI’s investments involve skilled nursing faciliti

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With the commercial real estate sector’s vital signs stabilizing, indexes of real estate investment trusts have posted big gains this year

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UNIONDALE, N.Y., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ABR), a real estate investment trust focused on the business of investing in real estate related bridge and mezzanine loans, preferred and direct equity investments, mortgage-related securities and other real estate r

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Murfreesboro Edge-O-Lake and Mark Marshall, who signed as a personal guarantor on loans taken out in 2006, 2007 and 2009. The bank declared him in default this month, according to the suit. Marshall,…

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Investing in real estate is such a popular career because there is a lot of money that can be made. One of the ways you can get as much money as possible from your investing is by knowing how to secure funding. When you know how to secure funding, you are able to purchase properties without putting up a lot of your own money. This is vital if you want to be a successful investor. If you think about it, the more properties you can buy without using your own money, the more money you stand to make.

In years past, it was really easy to secure funding because all you did was go to your local bank and take out a mortgage loan. The reason that more people are wondering how to secure funding for their real estate transactions these days is because it is so much harder to get a loan from a bank. This is why you need to know how to get funding from other sources, mainly from private lenders. If you never have heard of these, they really are just regular people who are looking for a great return on an investment. They are willing to give you the cash for the property in return for a portion of the profit. (more…)