Builder Magazine has named Highland Homes number 84 on its list of the top home builders for 2008 based on total closings for the year. This privately owned central Florida builder moves up the list from 121 to 84 with 350 new Florida homes closed during 2008.

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Metropolitan Detroit awarded the Fisher Building the title of “The Office Building of the Year” (TOBY).

RISMEDIA, May 28, 2009-RISMedia’s Top 5 in Real Estate Network® has been selected as a major sponsor of the Referral Expo 2009, a virtual event that commenced on Monday, May 18th and will run through Friday, May 29th. With just one day left to take part in this year’s Referral Expo, …

RISMEDIA, May 27, 2009-The general economic downturn, complicated by a severe credit crunch in commercial real estate, is dampening commercial real estate activity. In addition, a forward-looking index shows the forecast for commercial real estate sectors will remain weak for the remainder of the year, according to the National Association …

June 9 (Bloomberg) — Poly Real Estate Group Co. said its property sales in May rose to 4.2 billion yuan from 1.9 billion yuan a year earlier, according to a filing today to Shanghai’s stock exchange. Sales for the first five months of this year rose 158 percent to 14.7 billion yuan, it said.

The British Columbia Real Estate Association has sharply revised its forecast for dropping home prices in B.C., saying home prices in B.C. will fall just eight per cent this year instead of the 13-per-cent plunge it predicted earlier.

The Real Estate Development and Housing Construction sector which had taken a beating earlier this year has been able to register a marked improvement according to business circles.

Thirty Home Sites Now Officially Open For Sale

BIA/SO CA 50+ Housing Council has named Manny Gonzalez, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CAASH and Principal of KTGY Group 2009, SAGE “Person of the Year.”

RISMEDIA, June 9, 2009-(MCT)-A big energy hog in the house is the refrigerator, but so is the central air conditioner. Although central air conditioning is on only a few months of the year, the annual cost can be much greater than the annual cost of running your refrigerator.