Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Source: jaxnewsonline.comA man who functions a Florida real estate Company that shareholders say was a classic Ponzi scheme has pleaded culpable to fraud.
The Main Street USA Inc., the Orlando Sentinel reported that the Aleem Hussain said a federal judge in Orlando Thursday that he had cheated investors in his company. In a Ponzi scheme, premature investors paid with currency taken from later investors. Hussain brought over 10 Orange County sheriff\'s deputies and other additional employees into his company as depositors and, in several cases, employees. He wooed them by giving for meals and hangs about at resorts and by promising to twice over a $100,000 investment in six months. The sheriff\'s deputies helped convince new investors to hope Hussain with their money.
A resident of Guyana, Hussain shifted from New York to Florida in 1996. He held several jobs before starting Main Street USA. The newspaper said that the company worked well while real estate in Central Florida was booming.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Source: bloggingstocks.com The people at Apollo Management have been loading up on real estate recently. One contract that closed last week was the buyout of Realogy, which has a variety of housing real estate brokerages like Century 21, Coldwell Banker, and ERA.
An additional part of Apollo -- Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: AINV) -- is also making a play at real estate. In the present day, the firm agreed to give $17.75 for Innkeepers USA Trust (NYSE: KPA). The assessment comes to around $1.5 billion.
Innkeepers are a REIT and work an assortment of hotel brands, like Residence Inns, Summerfield Suites and Hampton Inns. While the firm makes reliable cash flows, the contract is not cheap at its 14X EBITDA multiple. Then once more, the company perhaps has growth possibilities. On today's message, Innkeepers' stock is dealing up 8% to $17.77.
Souce:press-releases.techwhack.comWashington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT) (NYSE:WRE) proclaims that Edmund B. Cronin, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive official of Washington Real Estate savings Trust will present at the 2007 Credit Suisse Global Real Estate meeting in New York, New York. Mr. Cronin planned to present on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 9:00 AM Eastern clock Time.
The live staging will be web cast in audio only and can accessed from the Investor part under Calendar of Events on WRIT’s website, writ.com. WRIT is one of the self-administered, self-managed, fairness real estate savings trusts spending in income-producing properties in the superior Washington/Baltimore urban region. WRIT holds an expanded portfolio of 85 properties containing of 14 retail centers, 25 general-purpose office properties, 14 medical office properties, 23 industrial/flex properties, 9 multi-family properties and property for growth. WRIT’s payments have improved yearly for 36 consecutive years and its FFO per share has enlarged yearly for 34 successive years. WRIT shares publicly deals on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:WRE).
Definite reports in this announcement or the press release are “forward–looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements occupy identified and unidentified risks, uncertainties, and additional factors that may reason genuine results to vary significantly. Such risks, uncertainties and additional factors contain, but are not restricted to, fluctuations in interest rates, availability of raw materials and labor costs, levels of competition, the effect of government rule, the accessibility of capital, climate conditions, the timing and charging of lease contact, and changes on the whole and local financial and real estate market situation.
Contacts Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT)
Sara Grootwassink, 301-255-0820
sgrootwassink@writ.com