U.S. Real Estate News

08/19/2008 Apollo Real Estate Advisors Increases Capital for U.S. Debt Fund (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Apollo Real Estate Advisors announced that it has raised additional capital for its debt investment fund, Apollo Real Estate Finance Corp. . .............................................................

08/16/2008 Real Estate Expert Charles Brownell Launches His New Book, Subprime Meltdown: From U.S. Crisis To Global Recession (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) In his new book, Subprime Meltdown: From U.S. Crisis to Global Recession, author and real estate expert Charles Brownell addresses how the subprime mortgage was created, how it works, and what factors led to the current subprime mortgage crisis. .............................................................

08/19/2008 U.S. Energy Corp. Signs Exploration Development and Mine Operating Agreement With Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) RIVERTON, Wyo., Aug. 19, 2008 -- U.S. Energy Corp. , a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, uranium, oil and gas, gold, and real estate, today announced that it has entered into a definitive Exploration, Development and Mine Operating Agreement for its Lucky Jack molybdenum property, located in Gunnison County, Colorado, with Thompson Creek Metals ... .............................................................

08/18/2008 U.S. Stocks Decline, Led By Fannie, Freddie; Hershey Retreats (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks declined the most in more than a week, led by banking and real estate shares, as growing speculation the government will bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rattled the mortgage market. .............................................................

08/19/2008 Canadian housing market cooling, but not like U.S. (Vancouver Province) The housing-sector misery is set to continue for sometime in the U.S., while the Canadian market is showing signs of a cool-down, according to the Scotia Economics real estate trends report released Monday. .............................................................

08/18/2008 U.S. Stocks Decline, Led By Fannie, Freddie; Hershey Retreats (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks declined for the first time in three days, led by banking and real estate shares, as growing speculation the government will bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rattled the mortgage market. .............................................................

08/18/2008 U.S. Stocks Decline, Led By Fannie, Freddie; Hershey Retreats (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks declined for the first time in three days, led by banking and real estate shares, as the increased likelihood of a government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shook confidence in the financial system. .............................................................

08/18/2008 U.S. home builders stay grim (The Globe and Mail) WASHINGTON — U.S. home builder sentiment was stuck at a record low in August, as stringent lending and a flood of foreclosed homes dragged on the real estate market, according to data from the National Association of Home Builders released Monday. .............................................................

08/18/2008 Former mayor, Paul Johnson, driving $500M real estate equity fund (BizJournals) Former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson is putting together a $500 million real estate equity asset management fund and wooing U.S. and foreign institutional investors. .............................................................

08/17/2008 Housing Starts Probably Slumped in July: U.S. Economy Preview (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. builders began work in July on the fewest houses in 17 years and the economic outlook dimmed, indicating the real-estate slump is at the epicenter of the growth slowdown, economists said before reports this week. .............................................................