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Hillsborough: Mansion goes to $5.55-million bidder [South Florida] But $4-million from Paul Bilzerian’s Avila home sale may pay for attorneys and loans. The sprawling but embattled mansion in north Hillsborough County built by Paul Bilzerian was auctioned for $5.55-million Monday by a bankruptcy judge. “It was a good investment,” said Clearwater auctioneer Michael Peters, the …
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A Booming Real Estate Market Gives Harry Macklowe the Last Laugh [Manhattan] When Harry Macklowe, the scion of one of New York’s most prominent real estate families, paid $1.4 billion in September 2003 for the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th streets, people laughed at what seemed like an outrageous price. …
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Bellina the queen of Bonita real estate market [South Florida] When Susie Bellina arrived in Bonita Springs in 1979, she never envisioned that this pit stop between Naples and Fort Myers would one day become such a real estate hot spot. “I came down for a visit and I remember that Bonita Springs was this …
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Buying before selling backfires for this couple [Southern California] When Laurian Rhodes and her husband, Sluggo, bought their first house 2 1/2 years ago, they did everything right, according to real estate protocol. Veteran punk rockers, Laurian, 36, and Sluggo, 47, aren’t what would be characterized as the new San Francisco buyers — upscale professionals …
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Women Unafraid of Condo Commitment [New York] David Wslentas — a Brooklyn developer solidly entrenched in the testosterone-dominated real estate world — is having a hard time making sense of the streams of women passing through his sales office at 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn. In the last five months, single women spent more …
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Home sale victims tell of bounced checks from Harrison lawyer [New York] Lizette Santiago worked two jobs for a dozen years to pay the mortgage on her Queens home. The 41-year-old single mom used her earnings as a bookkeeper and waitress to build up equity in her Woodhaven home. She put her house on the …
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