R$ 2.4 BILLION of investment (£727 million) is expected to be generated from the annual real estate and tourism conference for the Northeast region of Brazil -- Nordeste Invest 2008.

Texas is best-known for its oil well and high-tech business. But real estate is a close third, a new report by Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center found. Real estate is the third-most-important private industry in Texas, according to the latest dat

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Not quite an owner, but more than a renter: A lease-to-own agreement is a bit like housing purgatory. But the arrangement is increasingly popular today because more sellers are having trouble unloading their homes in the real estate recession and plenty o

The doyens of the country's real estate sector — K P Singh of DLF and Ramesh Chandra of Unitech — recently met top UPA government functionaries to seek higher tax breaks on housing loans and easier lending by banks to the sector.