03-31-2008
E-House Ranked as China's No. 1 Real Estate Agency and Consulting Company for Fourth Consecutive Year SHANGHAI, China, March 31 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- E-House
(China) Holdings Limited ("E-House") (NYSE: EJ), a leading real estate
services company in China, today announced it has been honored as China's
largest real estate agency and consulting company for 2007 by the China
Real Estate Top 10 Committee. E-House also received awards for the best
overall strength and as the best comprehensive service provider in China's
real estate agency and consulting sector. The China Real Estate Top 10
Committee is a real estate market research task force jointly organized by
the China Real Estate Association, the Enterprise Research Institute of
Development Research Center of the State Council of PRC, the Institute of
Real Estate Studies of Tsinghua University and the China Index Academy.
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03-30-2008
Good news for homeowners and real-estate market Thousands of Indiana homeowners should be breathing a sigh of relief, thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the Indiana General Assembly to ease the tax burden of great concern to Hoosiers since last summer. After months of discussions, legislators agreed to approve a sweeping tax reform package, signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels on March 19, that caps property tax bills for homeowners at 1 percent of assessed value. Rental properties will be capped at 2 percent. Read More
03-28-2008
Rethinking Real Estate IN more than 300 cities and counties across the United States, residential developers are asked — or forced — to include a certain amount of affordable housing in their projects. Critics say that such “inclusionary zoning” policies reduce the number of homes built and drive up prices.
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