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In a riveting business memoir that chronicles the radical innovation and entrepreneurial drive it took to bring a fresh mindset to a tradition-bound business, William M. "Bill" Raveis, Jr., chairman and CEO of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance (www.raveis.com), the largest family owned real estate brokerage company in the Northeast, has published The Way of the Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Journey to Build a Family-Owned Business Empire.

Global real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) today announced that the company will pay a dividend of $0.12 per share to common shareholders of record as of September 30, 2015 with a payment date of October 8, 2015. The quarterly payment equates to an annual dividend of $0.48 per common share.

PowerStone Property Management Inc. a full service Orange County, California based property management firm, today announced that it has expanded its full service office in North Orange County. The space has increased from 800 to over 2000 square feet. The number of workstations increases from two to nine. The office is located at 505 South Villa Real Drive in the City of Anaheim Hills. “We opened the office almost two years ago to better serve our North Orange County clients.

Global consumer electronics industry has been witnessing rapid growth over the past few years. Digital revolution, higher per capita incomes, coupled with the thirst among people to remain tech savvy, has propelled new developments in the industry. Manufacturers are increasingly introducing innovative products in order to provoke impulsive buying among the consumers.

Body Kathy Toth and Team REALTORS® announced the addition of a new member, John Lachman, to the Ann Arbor Area Real Estate Experts Team.? “John's 20 plus years in sales and marketing both at the corporate level and as an entrepreneur provide him the foundation for providing exceptional customer service to his clients and made him a great fit for our organization at Keller Williams.”, Toth said. A graduate of Ferris State University and life long Michigan resident, John has spent 15

Pat Hoffman, assistant vice president of operations. Hoffman was appointed to this newly created position to assist the COO in identifying and executing on a number of strategic operational initiatives. Prior to joining Safeguard, Hoffman served as director of operations at Capstone Logistics in Norcross, Ga., for 11 years where he managed multiple accounts providing third-party warehouse services to the leading wholesale and retail grocery and foodservice providers

Turner Construction Company is pleased to announce that Engineering News-Record’s annual Green Sourcebook recognizes Turner as the number one green builder in the country, performing more than $5.4 billion in green work in 2014. This figure represents the efforts of approximately 20,000 workers completing more than $100 million in sustainable construction every week.

Hill is a thirty-year veteran of the building supply industry, signing on with McCoy’s nearly 14 years ago in Longview, Texas. She began her career on the sales floor and served as Store Administrator before moving up to Assistant Manager there and in Taylor, Texas. Most recently Hill has helped guide the Nacogdoches store in her role as Assistant Manager and used that time to develop a great working relationship with the crew.

The Boulder Group’s Research Department has released a new research report providing comprehensive numbers and analysis of the activity in the National Net Lease Dollar Store Market.

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Jiffy Lube portfolio consisting of seven properties located throughout the Indianapolis MSA for $6,620,553

First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today released the First American Loan Application Defect Index for July 2015, which estimates the frequency of defects in the information submitted in mortgage loan applications.

CEDIA has announced finalists for the Home Technology Professional Awards competition which honors the best projects completed by home technology professional members in the past year. The finalists in individual project categories include three projects in the media room category, two projects in innovative solution, nine projects in integrated home, and six projects in best home theater.

RE/MAX, a global franchisor of real estate brokerage services (NYSE: RMAX), is launching a consumer app for the Apple Watch. Now available in the Apple App Store, RE/MAX Real Estate Search offers location-based search capabilities with scrollable for-sale listing details and agent contact links

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of itsPrimary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing average fixed mortgage rates falling to their lowest levels since May of this year amid substantial and ongoing global volatility out of China.

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released its updated Multi-Indicator Market Index® (MiMi®) showing the U.S. housing market continuing to slowly stabilize with two additional states, Arkansas and Tennessee, and four additional metro areas entering their outer range of stable housing activity: Omaha, Nebraska; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Chattanooga, Tennessee and Madison, Wisconsin.

Ten years ago, in a small office in downtown New Orleans, a start-up that had thrust itself into bringing some high-tech tools into the low-tech world of multi-family housing was about to have its world turned upside down. News reports were pouring in that Hurricane Katrina was headed for the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans was dead in its sight. Forecasters were predicting that it was going to be the worst storm in centuries, but most native New Orleanians remained unfazed— as hurricanes are part of living on the Gulf Coast.

Award-winning national architecture and planning firm KTGY Group, Inc., answering the strong demand for innovative design solutions in Chicago, announced today that it has opened a new office in downtown Chicago, IL to expand its services in the mid-western United States. The new studio will be headed by veteran designers Craig R. Pryde, AIA, LEED AP and David M. Kennedy, AIA, LEED AP, former principals of PPK Architects, as principals of the new studio.

Franklin Street has taken another major step toward their tactical growth plan of being a national, full-service commercial real estate firm. The company will now offer real estate valuation and advisory services to its growing client list through the acquisition of Tropical Realty Appraisal Services based in Tampa. Tropical Realty Appraisal Services has been in business since 1988 and provides real estate valuation services throughout the United States with offices in Tampa, Miami, Atlanta and Key West.

Fried Frank has been recognized across various categories in Vault’s 2016 “Best Law Firms” rankings. The Firm remained #1 in the Best Law Firms for Real Estate Law ranking and was newly ranked in the Best Law Firms for Compensation ranking at #7. Additionally, Fried Frank is newly ranked in the following categories