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Real Estate and Development

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Make way for better buildings


At the Business Record’s annual Economic Forecast, Hubbell Realty Co. CEO Rick Tollakson discussed the 25 percent vacancy rate in Greater Des Moines’ competitive office market. The new headquarters buildings recently constructed include “shadow space” …

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Fewer owners fall behind on home loans

Fewer U.S. homeowners are falling behind on their mortgage payments, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

CNNMoney.com reported that mortgage delinquency rates among U.S. homeowners fell to 13.56 percent at the end …

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Kimberley recognized by Iowa Home Builders Association

Kimberley Development Corp. and its president, Bill Kimberley, have received the Member of the Year Award and Builder of the Year Award, respectively, from the Home Builders Association of Greater Des Moines. The awards, which …

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Leadership Institute to remodel school auditorium

The 2011 class of the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute has announced Project Encore, an all-volunteer effort to renovate the Amos Hiatt Middle School auditorium. Constructed in 1924, the auditorium has become dilapidated and is …

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Rehabbers Club to launch home remodel series

The Des Moines Rehabbers Club is launching “Renovation Boot Camp,” an eight-session seminar series designed to give homeowners the advice, encouragement and resources they need to successfully complete a home makeover project. The classes, which …

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Prairie Trail clinic takes shape in Ankeny


Iowa Health Physicians and Clinics is building a 14,000-square-foot comprehensive primary care clinic in Ankeny. The new clinic will be located at 2615 S.W. State St. in the Prairie Trail development. Scheduled to open in …

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CB Richard Ellis to acquire ING assets

CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. has a purchase agreement with ING Groep NV to buy the majority of the Dutch financial group’s real estate investment management business, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 

Los Angeles-based …

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Grubb & Ellis reports revenue, announces Daymark launch

Grubb & Ellis Co. reported fourth-quarter revenues of $163.5 million, an increase of about 10 percent compared with revenues of $148.7 million in the last three months of 2009. For the full year of 2010, …

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Midwest farmland attracting higher bids

Farmers and investors in the Midwest are bidding up farmland at auctions as commodity prices surge, Bloomberg reported.

 

Cropland values in the region were up more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they …

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Neumann receives 2011 Masters Award

Neumann Bros. Inc. has won the 2011 Masters Award from the Master Builders of Iowa for its work on the Charles Benson Bear ’39 Recreation and Athletic Center at Grinnell College. The Masters Award is …