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RSS estateEstate Tax Reform Could Raise Much-Needed Revenue: Some Reform Options With Low Tax Rates Raise Very Little Revenue
White Paper Under current law, the estate tax will be repealed in 2010, and then will be reinstated in 2011. This strange sequence of events will occur because the tax cuts enacted in 2001, including those related to the estate tax, expire after 2010... [20 May 2005]
Estate Tax "Compromise" May Differ Little From Permanent Repeal
White Paper Bipartisan negotiations are starting in the Senate to produce an agreement on the future of the estate tax. Some have proposed retaining the tax but setting the exemption level high and cutting the top rate from 45 percent to 15 percent, the rate... [20 May 2005]
Long & Foster's Real Estate Boom: Saving Time Makes Money
White Paper When Long & Foster's agents and employees talked about quitting because office printer problems were too much, the largest real estate company in the U.S.called HP. [03 Nov 2007]
Cisco Unified Communications From SDI Networks Provides Real Estate Agents With Mobility, Connectivity
White Paper Dan Joyner Co.a successful real estate company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, has 11 offices spread across five counties in the northern part of the state, housing 100 employees and 400 contract real estate agents and sales associates. [10 Dec 2007]
First American Real Estate Solutions Gains High Availability and Protection for Critical Customer and Billing Data
White Paper First American Real Estate Solutions is the nation's largest source of real estate data. First American Real Estate Solutions migrated to Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition in June 2000, selecting it as the best choice to support terabytes of data. [05 Feb 2005]
RealPlus Accelerates Online Real Estate Listings Service With IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 10 and Linux
White Paper For RealPlus, L.L.C.which provides the New York City real estate industry with an online listings database service, the key to satisfying real estate agents is performance, performance, performance. The company wanted to accelerate response times... [05 Apr 2007]
McGuire Real Estate Consolidates Applications on SQL Server to Gain Competitive Edge Through Real-Time Business Intelligence
White Paper With more than 200 agents, 40 staff, and $1 billion plus in real estate sales, McGuire Real Estate is the premier independent real estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. The solution employed is MISSILE, a web-based database application... [03 Jul 2008]
Real Estate Broker's Appraisal: HP Mobility Solutions Advance the Art of the Deal
White Paper The client is a Real Estate agent. The challenge was to use technology to gain and maintain an advantage in a highly competitive real estate market, reduce driving and time in the office to increase selling effectiveness and provide the best... [10 Feb 2005]
How Australian Real Estate Agents Work Smarter and Save Up to Thousands of Dollars Per Week
White Paper Sydney real estate agencies Remax Penrith and Century 21 Mount Druitt once shared a dilemma - how to gauge performance and find new business in a volatile property market. Using Microsoft .NET technology, independent software developers Unique... [29 Nov 2006]
Database Products Help Real Estate Service Evaluate Millions of Homes Daily, Cut Costs
White Paper Zillow.com is an online real estate service that helps people research the value of millions of homes in America. When the company began building the database in 2005, the challenge was to find a product that could easily handle its very large data... [22 Nov 2006]
Real Estate Company Gives Agents Competitive Advantage with All-in-One Wireless Solution
White Paper Most everyone has felt the need to be two places at once, perhaps none more so than real estate agents. Edina Realty, one of the nation’s largest real estate companies and a long-time innovator in using technological solutions, wanted to extend... [16 Apr 2007]
Dot-com estate agents in mega-merger
News Propertyfinder is set to merge with Asserta - the online estate agency division of CGNU - in a deal that will mean the combined firms hold details on 56 per cent of all UK properties for sale at any one time. [06 Aug 2001]
RE/MAX Classic Real Estate: Impressing Clients and Each Other with Anytime Anywhere Information Retrieval
White Paper When RE/MAX Classic's Four Real Estate Offices in Southeastern Michigan sought a secure way to retrieve essential documentation from the road, they found Intranets.com and never looked back. Now RE/MAX Classic agents have the ability to download... [03 Jul 2008]
Ebay snaps up real estate website
News Online auctioneer eBay has bought property website HomesDirect.com in a bid to break into the real estate market. HomesDirect sells repossessed property from the US Department of Housing and has been making a loss since it was snapped up last year... [07 Aug 2001]
Real-estate site builds an extension
News US Online real-estate service Homestore.com plans to acquire iPlace, a provider of online credit and real-estate information, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $150m.iPlace provides online access to credit reports, in addition to real estate... [13 Aug 2001]
