New environmentally sustainable hotel, residential project selling fastTom KellyInman News
LAS VEGAS — Where do you start with CityCenter, the 18.6 million-square-foot, $7.4 billion hotel, casino, retail and residential complex on 76 prime acres of this city’s legendary Strip?
It is the largest privately financed construction project in U.S. history. Its workforce [...]

Why some avoid clients seeking multiple bids, cheap pricesBill & Kevin BurnettInman News
Recently we relayed a reader’s request for help. She was having difficulty finding a contractor to do some work on her home in Vallejo, Calif. Seems she couldn’t find people who would show up when they said they’d show up, charge what they [...]

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Also hiring? Horseshoe blacksmiths.
To support the rapid expansion of the Engel & Völkers brand in the United States, we are actively interviewing candidates to join our global network as franchisees in Florida, New York and the New England states. Since beginning franchise sales in Florida in October, 2006 and in New York, New [...]

Gifting home to relatives won’t help eitherIlyce R. GlinkInman News
Q: Are there any creative ways to avoid or decrease the tax owed when selling a rental property? How about giving the home to a family member, and then selling it? What are gift-tax issues? Can someone receive this gift and sell immediately? [...]

My New Year’s resolution is to read a book a week, in 2008.
Last Tuesday, I picked up a copy of a great new book. It’s about Andrew Dexter, Jr, “a real estate speculator, financier, and schemer”, as the Boston Globe called him.
In 1809, after spending millions of dollars of paper money, a new form [...]

Well, talk about not being able to predict things …
New role awaits a historic eyesore - Church of Scientology buys former Alexandra Hotel