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Team spirit turns hockey star into real estate czar
Lenders are collapsing, home sales and prices in many markets are falling and lots of investors are panicking. Not Warren Buffett. He told a group of his real estate managers late last month in Omaha that he sees this as a time of opportunity.
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The man who will try to seize some of those opportunities for him is Ron Peltier, CEO of HomeServices of America, the real estate arm of Berkshire Hathaway and the nation's second-largest residential brokerage firm.
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Horizon Kinetics December 2013 Market Commentary
This month, we discuss the discrepancy in valuations between Canadian-listed companies and their US-listed peers, highlighting real estate investment trusts and real estate developers.
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Robert Huebscher Interviews Vitaliy Katsenelson
Paul Krugman wrote about China in his New York Times column last Monday. That’s a topic that you have researched closely. He said that "China’s story just sounds too much like the crack-ups we’ve already seen elsewhere," referring to the financial...
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Government Policies Cool China’s Real Estate Boom
Thanks to Andrew for passing this along. SANYA, China — China’s nationwide real estate boom became so manic last year that many would-be buyers camped in tents on the sidewalks of this tropical island city to be at the front of the line when condominiums...
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Ron Peltier On King World News
Ronald Peltier: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Affiliate - HomeServices of America is the nation’s second-largest full-service residential real estate brokerage firm and became the conduit...
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Buffett Aide Sokol Says Housing, Economy Aren’t Near Recovery
May 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. housing market is nowhere near recovery and signs of stabilization are premature, said David Sokol, a top aide to billionaire investor Warren Buffett who oversees the nation’s second-largest real estate brokerage. Sokol...
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