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Real estate terms and definitions

real_estate_book Real estate industry is one of the most growing industries in the world, providing more opportunities by opening new avenues of success. If you want to accomplish a name in real estate market, it is important to know about the basic glossary used in this particular industry. Brushing up the glossary knowledge will help you to understand the real estate news in a better manner. Let us take up a look on the following important terms:

Amenity: It is an additional feature of the home or that may benefit the buyer such as its natural location, woods, swimming pool or garden.

Amortization: It is process of repayment of a mortgage loan in monthly installments that include principal and interest.

Annual Percentage Rate (APR): It is calculated by using a formula. Usually, the APR defines the cost of a loan; taking the yearly interest rate, insurance cost and other fees in consideration.

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Commercial properties

What is Commercial Property?951025_48423128

Commercial properties are hotels, malls, retail stores, business complexes, medical centers and industrial and commercial properties. They are properties used in earning income and making a profit.

Whether you choose to buy a property and hold it for its value to increase, or choose to invest in upgrading the property, and reselling or renting it, there are many options in commercial real estate.

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Silver credit cards

silver cardThe lowest in the hierarchy of precious metal named credit cards, silver credit cards have been around since the conception of credit cards in the mid-1950s. Today silver cards have been surpassed in prestige by gold credit cards and platinum credit cards and so have more commonly come to be known as ‘standard’ or ‘basic’ credit cards.

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Choosing the right credit card

choosing credit cardsWhen you are deciding what type of credit card to get it is important to compare credit cards to each other and find the best deal for you. There are a variety of different credit cards available, from low interest cards, cash back cards and even reward credit cards, it’s hard to decide what exactly the best credit cards are.

The best credit cards are generally going to have a few things in common. The first thing

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Belgian newspapers asks for $77.5 million from Google

A group of Belgian newspapers sued Google and are now asking for 49.2 million euros, around 77.5 million dollars.

Belgian newspapers claims that Google violated copyright laws by reading the publisher’s content and posting it in Google News, caching their content.

Google was sued in 2006 but now in 2008 they still didn’t get to a deal.

Google claims that content in Google News is legal and according to Margaret Boribon (secretary general at Copiepresse), Google failed to accept their claims.

Margaret Boribon said that Belgian publishers are still open to a settlement.

Youtube Banned in Pakistan

youtube logo Youtube site is now banned for Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority blocked access to this site around 22 February 2008 because of anti-Islamic content on this website. Pakistan’s service providers tried to block access by routing the requests to another IP address, aparently this blocked other people outside Pakistan from accessing YouTube.

Elmo did it again

ElmoThe popular toy Elmo did it again :)

Complaints ware received because Elmo is saying offending phrases again, a new version of the toy can connect to computer and learn phrases together with the kid’s name.

After a mother changed toy’s battery Elmo started to sing “Kill James” to his son James.

Back in 2006 the Elmo voice said to kids “wo wants to die” and it was supposed to say “who wants to try”. They say the error was because of some audio compression or some chip, however the toy clearly said “who wants to die” and this made some people say that it was something made on purpose by a person inside the company.