May 15, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average rose 2.3 percent on Wednesday, breaking above 15,000 for the first time since January 2008, with Sony Corp surging after an activist U.S. fund called on the company to spin off and list its lucrative...
May 15, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
* Border city of Szczecin now economic hub for German
satellites
* Phenomenon challenges assumptions about rich west, poor
east
* Polish side of border is younger, more dynamic, has more
cash
* Could it be the model for future of Europe?
By...
May 15, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Tribune reporter
Chicago-based Tech Cocktail, a media company that covers news and organizes events for entrepreneurs, has raised $2.5 million in funding from an initiative led by Zappos.com Chief Executive Tony Hsieh.
It's the first time Tech Cocktail has taken...
May 15, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
GARTZ, Germany (Reuters) - Like most people in Szczecin, a port city on the western edge of Poland, businessman Zbigniew Sawicki thought that when his country joined the European Union a decade ago, wealthier German neighbors would pour in and buy up...
May 14, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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A frustrating housing market for Southland buyers swelled in April as prices surged and inventory tightened.
Homes sold at the fastest clip for that month in seven years, as regular buyers and investors snapped up more than 21,000 homes in the six-...
May 14, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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dona@herald-mail.com
The Hagerstown City Council on Tuesday voted 3-1 to introduce an ordinance for a $133,145,831 budget for fiscal 2013-14 that holds the line on real estate taxes and provides for an increase in pay for city employees.
Councilmen Lewis C. Metzner, Martin...
May 14, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
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The Hartford Courant
A national real estate investment firm has purchased the Starbucks coffee shop on Spencer Street for $1.38 million.
The buyer, Agree Manchester LLC, is a subsidiary of Michigan-based Agree Realty Corp. Robert Cohon, a company representative, said Tuesday...
May 14, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Beacon Investment Properties is on a growth spurt.
The 10-year-old commercial real estate firm based in Hallandale Beach has bought 3.1 million square feet of office buildings across the country during the past six months.
The most recent deal: A $253...
May 14, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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Property owners in the East Penn School District will be spared a property tax increase next school year under a $130 million proposed final 2013-14 budget approved Monday night.
"I want to make it clear, this is a zero percent tax increase," school...
May 13, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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waynesboro@herald-mail.com
Tuscarora School District property owners could face a tax increase to support the district’s preliminary 2013-14 budget.
On Monday, the school board approved a preliminary budget that calls for a three-fourths of a mill real estate tax increase. A...
May 14, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Reuters
By Junko Fujita
TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Westbrook Partners led
the acquisition of a majority stake in a Tokyo office tower for
about 30 billion yen ($295 million) as the market rebounds in
the capital of the world's third-largest economy,...
May 12, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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Scheduled meetings this week of the Washington County Commissioners and Hagerstown Mayor and Council (the Washington County Board of Education is not scheduled to meet):
WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
County Administration Building
100 W....
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