Nanigans Inc., the Boston advertising platform startup, is growing west and opening a new San Francisco office. With its focus on the Facebook Ads API, Nanigans will have a closer geographical tie to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook. The move also brings the company closer to Redwood City, Calif.-located Electronic Arts Inc., a social games company with whom it partnered recently. Founded in 2008, Nanigans took in $3 million in its first funding round in August, led by Avalon Ventures, which has offices both in Cambridge and La Jolla, Calif.  The financing also included unnamed Boston-based angel investors.

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Yesterday afternoon we learned some big news that Prudential Real Estate & Relocation was acquired by Brookfield Residential Property Services, a global real estate and relocation company from Prudential Financial Inc. Brookfield is a premier real estate organization with over $150 billion in assets. Businesses include residential brokerage, global employee relocation, and data analytics. This transaction creates a global real estate and relocation services franchising company in the US, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, China, Brazil, India, France, Australia, & Singapore.

When real estate franchising began, it was an age when internet did not exist.

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rose ever-so-slightly today after Best-Execution fell to it’s all-time low yesterday.  If you didn’t catch it, please see yesterday’s post if you need/want more clarification on what we mean by “all-time low best-execution.”  

Although rates are marginally higher today on average, the Best-Execution rate of 3.875% is unchanged and today’s weakness would instead be seen in slightly higher closing costs.  That said, things are close enough to unchanged today that NOT ALL lenders have higher costs.  A minority are actually slightly lower in cost.  That’s good to see considering longer-dated US Treasuries moved higher in yield at a faster pace today.

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When Neil Heaney cried “foul” in his former life, chances are he was describing a crunching encounter on the football pitch.

These days the ex-Premier League and England Under-21 winger is more likely to use the phrase while talking about foreign property developers. Sadly, he is one of the thousands of Brits to have fallen prey to a doomed property investment during the boom years leading up to the crash in 2008.

The good news is that Heaney now brings hope to an increasing number of overseas investors who, like him, are due money back from a developer, but are daunted by the prospect of navigating a foreign legal system.

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During the past 14 years the Three Rivers Folklife Society has put on the annual Tumbleweed Music Festival and this year is no exception. On the weekend of September 3-4, 2011 bring the whole family out and enjoy some wonderful music, scrumptious food, and a walk through the park looking at what the different vendors have to display in Richland Washingtons Howard Amon Park. If you are interested there will also be workshops to attend, here is a list of the workshps offered. Every year we love to take a stroll through the park listening to the various musical groups and letting the kids play. Get full post…