Real Estate and Development

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

NAI Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial Co., which has offices in Davenport and Des Moines, has received the Member of the Year Award for 2010 from NAI Global. Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial was chosen from among …

Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa Inc. has leased 30,000 square feet of industrial space at 4100 Dixon St. in Des Moines. The tenant was represented by Ben Condon of Terrus Real Estate Group LLC. The …

Uncle Sam has a reminder for some people who took advantage of the first-time homebuyer tax credit three years ago: He wants his money back.

Americans who bought homes in 2008 and took the government …