Other witnesses had previously seen such a truck parked at the Palestinian's real estate offices before the attack.
There were pictures of Shia martyrs, and also of Moqtada al-Sadr, outside the real-estate offices, some of which, I was told, were fronts for brothels. (Large numbers of Iraqi women make their living in Syria as prostitutes.) Shortly before midnight, buses from Baghdad began to pull into a parking lot where boys were still up, playing soccer.
Crescent Real Estate Equities (offices, hotels, cold storage) is the laugher in this group.
The first came from a commercial real estate appraiser who occupied luxurious offices with a spectacular view of downtown Dallas that he was able to lease, post-crisis, for a fraction of what the developer had anticipated.
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Last year, when the founders were still polishing their business plan, they were sought out by real-estate developers, offering brand new offices in exchange for stock options -- this, remember, from a company that hadn't yet begun to do business!
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Many are little more than real-estate operations, in which firms with offices fill space and get some potentially lucrative equity in return.
"We're writing a record number of offers, but we're not seeing a record number of closings and that's because it's so competitive, " said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of real-estate brokerage Redfin Corp. in Seattle with offices in 14 states.
So did Knight Frank, another London real estate agent, which now also advertises that it has offices in Moscow.
Bringing these employees into offices will only hurt morale, increase real estate costs and push out several valuable workers who have been diligently keeping afloat a severely damaged Yahoo ship.
Dreier and Kovachev staged a meeting with one hedge fund investor in October at the offices of the developer, during which Kovachev acted as the real estate company's controller, according to the complaint by the U.S. attorney in Manhattan that was unsealed Tuesday.
Family offices also handle concierge duties: booking travel, finding a good real estate lawyer in the Bahamas, handling payroll for the Gulfstream crew and wrapping Christmas presents.
New York's Empire State Building, which has been derided by some in the real estate world as the "Empty State Building", has also had trouble filling out its offices.
The real-estate boom has also increased the gap between those at the top and those who keep the offices clean and the entrepreneurs fed.
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