Stern also recorded months of conversations, wearing a secret device when talking to Smith about getting taxpayer funds for the real estate deal, which was a bogus concoction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The real estate phase of the deal is expected to close in early 2013.
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Many folks in the commercial real-estate business seem to believe that green buildings are the real deal.
Balls of tar washing up on the beach would make any real estate deal tougher.
Brokering this hefty real estate deal would require the monarch put in an accepted counter-offer against the Rudin Organization, a real estate development and management company hoping to construct luxury residences at the shuttered hospital location.
In 2006-7, investors poured billions of dollars into homebuilder and financial stocks, following glowing reports about the state of the US housing and financial sectors losing a great deal of money when the real estate bubble burst.
Actually, lenders could care less what the property appraises for, it is the loan officer (me) and the real estate agent, Larry who care (a great deal) what the value result is from the appraisal.
There were some big winners--a hydroelectric project in the state of Vermont and a real estate deal in New Hampshire--followed by a spectacular bust.
The problem with real estate is that every deal is different.
The stadium and other real estate and associated revenue-generating opportunities were what drove the deal.
She says the real estate tax credit offer helped seal one deal already and that three other homes in the program are in strong negotiations.
On the real-estate front, meanwhile, lawmakers have tried to deal with sky-high prices by introducing a 15 percent stamp duty on foreign purchases of private residential homes.
Then Ms. Resler, 32 years old, and Ms. Kavanagh, 24, met Sion Misrahi, a Lower East Side real-estate deal maker and founder of the neighborhood's Business Improvement District.
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They are however part of almost every real estate deal and they have become essential in the bidding on a house process.
Everyone has been so concerned about a property real estate bubble bursting over the last year but the steps to deal with it have worked.
Real estate firm Savills, which marketed the mansion, confirmed the deal but declined to comment or provide further details.
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Zona just inked a deal to be the provider of financial news, real estate listings and loan rates on StarMedia's money page.
Mr. Smith, meanwhile, entered the scope of federal investigators through a 2010 probe by the Rockland County district attorney's office into an unrelated real-estate deal.
The deal comes as a debate is raging in the commercial real-estate world over whether nontraded REITs are better for investors than traded REITs.
Stern had never done a commercial real estate deal of anywhere close to that size, but figured the bank would loan him nearly the entire amount.
Finance and telecommunications still figure prominently in the latest deal wave, according to Dealogic, but this year, real estate deals have replaced 2000's technology merger mania among the three most active sectors.
According to the allegations, Peterson encouraged Morgan Stanley to sell an interest in a Shanghai real-estate deal to Shanghai Yongye Enterprise (Group) Co.
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According to a banker involved in the deal, none of the "usual" guarantees, such as real estate or cash on deposit with banks, have been put up, the banker said.
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John Guinee, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, said Mr. Thomas has a reputation for being an aggressive deal maker and successful real-estate investment banker, so the move could mean a "more aggressive management" style in the future that includes more acquisitions and asset sales.
But the Mansions deal comes as banks throughout the country are showing a greater appetite for real-estate risk.
The first time I remember being asked for a bribe was in India while working on a real estate deal.
For once, the bank may come out better on this deal than it did on a number of traditional real estate deals!
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Zelda Heller, the listing agent with TTR Sotheby's International Realty, lives in the building and brokered both sides of the deal between the seller, retired businessman Paul Elicker, and the buyer, a real-estate developer in the area.
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