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• Design Districts in Land Planning: Innovative Miami Design District Becoming New Trend in Land Use - Doral Design District Moves Forward

  Miami's Design District is well-known to almost everyone: tourists seek it out, investors appreciate its success, heck - television shows use it for backdrop.  It's a beautiful part of the city and one of the jewels of South Florida.  Set among some of Miami's great neighborhoods -- Wynwood, Buena [...]

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• DRI's Dr. Camillo Ricordi Talks Diabetes and The Search for a Cure as TuDiabetes Chat

  As we posted about earlier, here is the video chat that happened on August 10, 2012 as DRI's Dr. Ricordi addressed the TuDiabetes community, as part of their video-chat series.  Dr. Ricordi and his DRI colleagues have just received a $4.6 million grant for continued islet cell research [...]

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• Foreign Investment in Florida Real Estate: Residential Sales Bring in Billions of Dollars to Florida Economy in Past Year

  There's a lot of news coverage this week regarding foreign real estate investment in Florida: consider today's article in the Sun-Sentinel as an example:  "Foreign buyers boosting home sales."  

  Why?  The new report by Florida Realtors has been released, its 2012 Profile of International Home Buyers in [...]

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• Sales of New Single Family Homes On the Rise in July by 3.6% : Trend to Continue Through Year-End Reports NAHB

  The National Association of Home  Builders carefully monitors the state of real estate development in this country, something that Florida land investors and developers involved in both commercial and residential projects are interested in knowing.  (Go here to check out the NAHB's online National Research Center.)  So when [...]

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• Critics of Single Family REITs: They See Much Money to be Made, But Distrust Benefits In the Long Run

  As more and more investment chatter centers around the possibility of investing in the huge volume of single family homes that have, or will be, foreclosed upon in the United States, many are seeing an opportunity in Single Family REITs.  (Read our earlier posts about this blossoming investment vehicle [...]

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• Diabetes Research Institute: $4.6 Million Award for Islet Cell Transplantation Research - News Release

  DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE AWARDED $4.6M TO TAKE ISLET TRANSPLANTATION TO NEXT LEVEL

  JDRF and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust provide three-year grant

  (August 16, 2012) -- Camillo Ricordi, M.D., and collaborators at the Diabetes Research Institute have received a $4.6 million grant from two medical research foundations to [...]

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• Florida Dept of Environmental Protection Okays Big Land Value Increase for Florida Mitigation Bank in Cook County: Will Other Wetlands Protected Areas Also Get Higher Values Soon? Probably.

  Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) okayed a big jump in the valuation of a tract of land held by the Highlands Ranch Mitigation Bank.  This land, found in Clay County, will now be valued at almost twice what it was before, according to FDEP [...]

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• Feds Offer New Rule for High-Risk Home Mortgage Loans: News Release of the Week

  With the Federal Reserve Board of Governors joining with the FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and the National Credit Union Administration, in issuing a proposed new rule regarding how Americans can get higher-risk mortgage loans to buy [...]

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• Recommended Read: Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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• Florida's Transcendent Investments Management (TIM) is a Pioneer in Single Family Rental REITs: Proven Success, Innovation to Watch

  Here's something interesting:  Florida's own Transcendent Investments Management (TIM) is one of the pioneers in the new trend (check our earlier posts on this subject) of investors buying distressed single family residential properties and then holding them as rental properties-- the new single family rental REITs.

  Who is TIM?

  Transcendent [...]

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