Despite the sky-is-falling headlines about housing values, industry numbers say home buyers know a good deal when they see one: Queens is back as a hot market.

"I think the drought is over with, as far as real estate sales in Richmond Hill and Bryan County," Bryan County Board of Commissioners chairman and Bryan Bank & Trust president Jimmy Burnsed told a group of more than 30 people Thursday morning.

Cablevision Systems Corp has made a $650 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, topping rival offers from media titans Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman, a source briefed on the matter said on Friday.

Alesco Financial Inc. , a specialty finance real estate investment trust, announced today that its annual meeting of stockholders is scheduled to be held at the Cira Centre, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 10 a

FutureBrand, a leading international brand consultancy firm with offices in 20 cities around the world, has announced that it will be promoting its third annual Gulf Real Estate Study (GRES) during Cityscape Abu Dhabi which will run from May 13 to 15, 200