Lee & Associates Closes on $6.5 Million Retail Sale

January 10, 2012 by The Hoyt Organization Category: News Green Home, Housing & Development Lee Associates, the nation’s largest broker owned commercial brokerage firm, has closed on the $6.5 million sale of a 14,641-square-foot retail property leased by CVS Pharmacy, located at 10522 Spring Green Blvd in Katy, Texas.

Jim Casale, CCIM, a principal in the Lee San Diego office represented the buyers, a private family trust. T

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How to Stage your Home

This guest post was provided by Central Austin homes maven, Allison Allen.

One of the most steps to selling your home is making it attractive to prospective buyers. Showing the house is one thing, but showing it well is a whole different ball game. Even the most seemingly insignificant adjustments can transform your cluttered clamor into the house of people’s dreams.  Here are some tips to help you get started.

The first thing to do: remove clutter. Nothing hurts home showings worse than clutter and disorganization and there are plenty of easy ways to de-clutter.

Turn unsightly household objects into home buying appeal. If

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Essex Fells: Real Estate’s Old Fashioned Charmer

Speaking of love letters, The New York Times Real Estate section wrote one to Essex Fells today. They mention The Pond and wax poetic about its charms, painting a scene where folks glide on the ice, pizza is delivered and you can warm your cold hands in front of a bonfire. Sounds idyllic? Heres whats on the market in Essex Fells, including this house at 73 Stocker Road, which is open today. Now it just has to get cold enough for the pond to freeze

BofA to cut 30,000 workers

Bank of America plans a sweeping overall of its nationwide operations cost-cutting endeavors that will trim is payrolls by 30,000 positions over the next several years.

Associated Press reports:

The bank announced the job cuts in a statement shortly after Brian Moynihan, the banks CEO, disclosed the cost-saving goals in an address to investors in New York. Were a much simpler company than we were 24 months ago, Moynihan said.

The BofA press release (HERE) notes a New BAC project designed to streamline the banks operations

Bank of Americas goal is not a given number of job reductions, but rather implementation of New BAC decisions. As the decisions are implemented, employment levels in the areas under review during Phase I are expected to be reduced by approximately 30,000 jobs over the next few years.

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Outside Storage Inconsistencies

It would seem as if different self storage facilities have different ideas on what is acceptable with parking. Many people will allow certain types of vehicle to be stored in their parking lot or inside of the storage unit. This is not a big deal to the facility managers because they just tell the customers what can and what cannot be stored there. For the consumer calling around, to be told no on what another facility told them yes could be nerve racking. It would be good if everyone had the same thought process on parking. For many storage facilities, out side parking spaces are meant for vehicles that have wheels. I spoke with a young man who wanted to rent an outside parking space to put his canoe.

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