RISMEDIA, Feb. 1, 2007-Jeriko House, LLC Founder and CEO Shawn Burst announced his company’s entry into the Modular/Prefabricated Home Building Market. The New Orleans-based owner has developed a post-Katrina concept that he is convinced will revolutionize the building industry in the U.S.

RISMEDIA, Feb. 1, 2007-From cutting-edge technology to innovative client-retention programs, three leading brokers discuss their strategies for succeeding in today’s climate. This exclusive roundtable report is moderated by Virginia Cook, NAR’s special liaison for large firm relations.

History is being made. The biggest leveraged buy out ever keeps getting bigger. Sam Zell has orchestrated an auction for his Equity Office Properties. And the latest bid from the Blackstone Group is $54 per share, bringing the deal value to $38.3 billion and topping the prior bid from Vornado.

 At the same time, one of the biggest hotel deals in history — perhaps small change compared to the Equity Office Properties deal but very significant in its own way — has been announced with the $6.6 billion acquisition of CNL Hotels & Resorts by Morgan Stanley and the contemporaneous spin off of $2.4 billion of hotel assets to Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc.

Not long ago, owning a million-dollar home in Calgary made you part of the city’s elite, and likely came with a Mercedes-Benz, country club membership and winters in Tuscany — the one in northern Italy, not the northwest suburbs.

But as the city’s petro-fuelled economy pumps up property values, thousands of Calgarians are crashing the seven-figure society, with homes ranging from tiny bungalows to inner-city estates.

Welcome to Calgary, home of the housing millionaires.

According to city figures released Tuesday, there are now 4,971 homes worth at least $1 million in Calgary — nearly five times as many as there were just two years ago.

In today¹s fast-paced world, homebuyers are looking to one-stop shopping now more than ever before. Paging through the Sunday paper¹s real estate section is a thing of the past.  Targeted publications like Harmon Homes magazines and HarmonHomes.com offer everything a homebuyer needs in one convenient stop, proving that searching through the newspaper¹s meager section of real estate properties is a waste of homebuyers¹ valuable time.