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Broadreach buys S.F. office space

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

In two separate transactions, Broadreach Capital Partners has acquired two class B commercial office buildings in downtown San Francisco for approximately $100.7 million.  more...

Hines REIT acquires Fifth & Bell

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

Hines Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. has acquired Fifth & Bell, a class A office building in downtown Seattle, for an undisclosed price.

Touchstone Seattle Venture II sold the property, which is located on 5th Avenue between Bell and Battery streets.  more...

Younan shifts office strategy, leaves Florida

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

Younan Properties Inc. has exited the Florida office market with the recent sale of Southpoint Executive Center in Maitland.

The sale price of the 137,000-square-foot office building to Stiles Capital Partners was $24 million.  more...

Prudential CA/NV/Texas expands online listings partnerships

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

As more real estate brokerage companies aim to increase online exposure for their property listings, Prudential California/Nevada/Texas Realty announced it has added two more Internet partners.

The brokerage company said it will now send listings information to Cyberhomes.com and Homescape.com.

Cyberhomes, launched in 2006 by Fidelity National Real Estate Information Service, provides consumers with real estate information that includes more than 100 million property, ownership, sales and mortgage records.  more...

ApartmentGuide.com, Homes.com gain in Hitwise rankings Premium Content

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

Housing search sites ApartmentGuide.com and Homes.com moved up five places on the Hitwise list of most-visited real estate Web sites in June compared to the previous month.

Hitwise, a Web metrics company, also reported that the MSN Real Estate site, at realestate.msn.com, dropped three spots on the real estate top-20 list, which ranks sites according to the market share of visits to that category.  more...

Network and get ahead before Connect

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

Inman News' Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco this summer will bring together the event's longstanding reputation for networking and its focus on technology by enabling virtual networking before, during and after the conference.

Real estate executives, entrepreneurs and technology developers can start making their connections now by participating in the virtual networking opportunities in place at online social network sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and InmanWiki.

Real Estate Conn  more...

Survival of the niches: getting leads in a slow market Premium Content

By Glenn Roberts Jr., Monday, July 9, 2007.

Editor's note: In this three-part series, Inman News looks at how the changing market is impacting lead generation, how agents are competing for top spots on Google, and how the lending industry faces increased criticism of its use of trigger lists.  more...

Trulia on InmanTV

By Inman News, Monday, July 9, 2007.

Trulia CEO Pete Flint discusses current user-generated content innovations in real estate with Inman News Social Media Manager Joel Burslem. Flint gives details about Trulia Voices, the real estate search engine company's latest additions that aim to spark user interactivity.