| BoatshedUSA.com launches new Florida operation
BoatshedUSA.com, the North American subsidiary of yacht brokerage organisation Boatshed.com, will open 15 new Boatshed sales offices throughout the state of Florida under the banner BoatshedFlorida.com.Located in Sarasota, Florida, BoatshedFlorida.com will oversee a 'fast and aggressive' roll-out plan with offices on both the west and east coast of the state already confirmed in Sarasota and Miami.Headed by Scott McNally and Erik Maltby, owners of a real estate company with 120 agents across Florida and Georgia, the boat brokerage will have offices from the Florida Keys to Destin, at locations including Tampa, Daytona, Melbourne and Ft Myers."With the rollout of the Florida offices and Boatshed's current network across the USA, Europe and Canada, Boatshed will be heading for 60 global locations" said Roger Bailey, from Boatshed.com.
Miami blog postings spark $25 million lawsuit
Developer Tibor Hollo has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against a Miami real estate agent who blogged that the octogenarian went bankrupt in the 1980s and is headed for a fall with the upheaval in the condo market. Hollo last week sued agent Lucas Lechuga and the Coral Gables brokerage Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell alleging they have engaged in a smear campaign against him and his Opera Tower condo development on Lechuga's Miami Condo Investments blog. On Monday, the postings cost Lechuga his job. ''We just don't condone making statements, especially negative statements, about anyone, so we have terminated our relationship with our associate,'' said EWM President Ron Shuffield. Its agents are independent contractors, not employees. Lechuga, 29, predicted on the blog that at least half of the buyers in the 635-unit Opera Tower at 1750 Bayshore Dr.
Guardsmen on smuggling charges
Sounds like the start of a stand up comedy routine. But it's no joke. Because this is our country we're talking about; and the three front runners for the Democratic party nomination really are an African American, a woman and a white "son of the south."As a black woman, I find it quite amazing that, in a year when many thought the big news would be Hillary's very real chance to become the first female president, Barack has entered the scene to give her a run for her money and for a place in history.Of course, both candidates do not want you to vote on the basis of race or gender. But there's that third fella -- the one who stands to benefit from all the recent bickering between the front runners: John Edwards.While the other two square off over "fairy tales" and the relative legacies of Dr.
Changing with the times
Part of the inspiration to sell its canal real estate came from a deal the port struck with Trinity Yachts, a company that constructs multimillion-dollar luxury vessels at a yard on the France Road side of the Industrial Canal. Katrina swallowed Trinity's facilities, forcing the company to relocate its headquarters to Gulfport, Miss. The Port of New Orleans wanted desperately to lure back the company, but Trinity refused to bite unless it could own its property. The port agreed to sell about 48 acres to the yacht builder for $4.5 million. "In the case of Trinity, it was a do-or-die deal," Hughes said. "We got to keep all those jobs in the city." The port has arranged a similar agreement with Better Boxing Co., which in July purchased a port-owned warehouse on the Industrial Canal and is poised to buy the 4 acres of land beneath it.
Foreclosure filings continue to climb
Scheduling a sale does not mean an auction will be held, Scott added. Almost one-fourth of the sales set in La Crosse County last year were called off because the owner filed for bankruptcy, sold the property or managed to make payments to bring the property out of foreclosure, he said.A number of other sales were rescheduled or pushed into 2008, Scott said.More than half of the foreclosure sales in 2007 involved properties with La Crosse mailing addresses.La Crosse had 72 of the properties sold at foreclosure last year, while 22 were in Onalaska and 17 in Holmen. West Salem had seven sales, Bangor six, Melrose three and Rockland and Coon Valley one each.The number of sales statewide for 2007 were not available, but a firm that tracks related data said overallforeclosure filings in Wisconsin have risen more than 70 percent since 2005.In 2007, almost 21,000 properties in the state were entered into foreclosure, but not all of those ended in sales, according to ForeclosureWI.com.All but 17 of the La Crosse County properties sold at foreclosure in 2007 were purchased by the lending institution, sheriff's department records show.Scott said foreclosed properties are auctioned off at 10 a.m.
UPDATE 1-Primary extends Symbion bid, talks to Healthscope
Based on Symbion's latest share price, investors remain sceptical that any deal will go ahead, especially since Symbion's board has rejected the Primary bid. Primary has been slow to win acceptances to its offer. After more than a month, it has conditional acceptances for 21.78 percent of Symbion in addition to its own 22.5 percent stake. Continued... .
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