Up-to-date real estate news from multiple sources covering national stories with special attention to Arizona. The feed is managed/created by Real Estate Learning Center, an Arizona real estate school. http://www.realestatelc.com/news Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:02 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/images/rsslogo.gif http://www.realestatelc.com The feed is managed/created by Real Estate Learning Center (http://www.realestatelc.com), an Arizona real estate school. http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11641 But questions about whether the county actually needs to purchase the former south-side produce warehouse in the first place prompted County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry to recommend selling some prime real estate downtown to cover the cost, rather ... Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:04 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11639 At first glance, this home looks like another stately 19th-century Brooklyn home, but it was completed less than a decade ago as a modern mansion with a historic feel. Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:01 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11640 This 19th-century house on the banks of the River Indre comes with separate guest accommodation in a converted mill building. Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:01 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11637 Starwood Capital Group is in talks to buy seven U.S. shopping malls from Westfield Group for more than $1 billion, a deal that would mark the latest in a flurry of big-ticket acquisitions of retail property. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:04 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11638 Ian Bruce Eichner, a developer whose high-profile problems became symbols of the last two real-estate busts, is in final stages of a deal to buy a condominium development site near Manhattan's Flatiron Building. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:04 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11635 A developer is hoping to break ground soon in Rio de Janeiro on the first Donald Trump-branded project in Brazil, but with the country's growth engine low on steam, the office market may not cooperate. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:03 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11636 Once a symbol of suburban dominance, aging office parks from California to New Jersey are being reimagined as little cities. Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:03 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11633 A longtime Tucson environmentalist who has been critical of more than one development engineered by land investor and developer Donald Diamond over the years agrees with a top official in the Diamond real estate empire that a sale of 1,374 acres of the ... Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:16 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11634 The minor aims to prepare students to build and fly unmanned aerial vehicles -- UAVs, or drones -- for a commercial market that doesn't yet exist. That has not stopped colleges from jumping in to the field to produce workers for an industry that many ... Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:16 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11632 Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School, said that the Arizona housing market is great for sellers, but increasingly tough for buyers. That's in part due to constrained supply. “Right now we have a ... Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:13 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11631 Surging credit has kept China's real-estate sector humming in the teeth of a renewed attempt by the government to bring prices under control, risking a destabilizing correction in prices down the line. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:11 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11629 A late-1800s home on Chicago's Gold Coast is wrapped in greenery and flanked by tour-worthy gardens. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:10 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11630 Why discerning parents can't get enough of tiny, collectible, midcentury pieces. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:10 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11628 After nearly a quarter-century of planning and controversy, the huge Rocking K development next to Saguaro National Park East should be ready to start construction within two years, the project's chief says. "I think it's imminent. I think the market ... Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:06 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11625 Though I wish it could be otherwise, the role of the Yavapai County Assessor's Office does not include controlling the whims of either the national real estate market or the Arizona real estate market. Instead, the assessor is charged by state law with ... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11626 Tucson's shrinking inventory of lots for builders, the lack of competition in the industry locally and the inflationary pressure on construction costs and land prices were among topics explored in a panel discussion I moderated last month at an event ... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11627 The trendlines continue to point to a steady, albeit slow, recovery of the housing market in the Tucson region. The latest from the ... Southern Arizona Graphic Associates Inc. leased 14,500 square feet at 1861 W. Grant Road, Suite 105, from Walker ... Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:07 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11623 An eye-popping price tag in Greenwich, Conn., is a new test of the ultra-high-end property market. Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:04 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11624 For 21½ hours in 1969, two astronauts lived aboard a cold, cramped lunar module with a balky circuit breaker. Buzz Aldrin talks about what this home aboard Apollo 11 was like. Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:04 +0100 http://www.realestatelc.com/story?ID=11621 Looking to connect with his roots, the owner sought out this French Colonial-style home overlooking a bay. Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:02 +0100