The number of guests staying at Hartford-area hotels slid sharply in the first four months of 2009 compared with last year, as the recession takes a toll on business and leisure travel.

SIERRA VISTA — Fears over an uncertain housing market seem to be subsiding, giving way to a number of buyers looking to take advantage of low prices and government incentives, local real estate agents said.

Minor variations in Wairarapa residential property sales figures over the past month show, although the region continues to lag behind national sales averages, the local market is steadily stabilising on the back of high property listing and asking prices.

In 1996, Amy Speranza was a single woman looking to invest in real estate and found the right house in Turtle Creek.

MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) - Russian state savings bank Sberbank fired an executive who forecast that bad loans could spark a major sell-off of real estate pledged with Russian banks, the bank said on Wednesday. "A. S. Chuvin had no authority to make a presentation on this subject in the name of Sberbank," Sberbank said in a statement on Wednesday. "The presenter is not a specialist in ...

MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) - Russian state savings bank Sberbank fired an executive who forecast that bad loans could spark a major sell-off of real estate pledged with Russian banks, the bank said on Wednesday. "A. S. Chuvin had no authority to make a presentation on this subject in the name of Sberbank," Sberbank said in a statement on Wednesday. "The presenter is not a specialist in ...

03 June 2009 Prices are now matching 2006 levels.

The number of new property listings declined for the third month in a row, with listings in May dropping a further 5 percent on April, according to the property website Realestate.co.nz.

MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters) - Bad loans could spark a major sell-off in real estate assets pledged with Russian banks this autumn, an official with Russia's Sberbank, a major lender to the real estate sector, said on Tuesday. "A lot of banks will have major problems in the autumn, and they could start dumping real estate like owners are dumping now," Alexei Chuvin, director of construction finance ...

The state's community banks have worked for months to differentiate themselves from the big banks with big problems.