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Milwaukee officials have selected 10 neighborhoods for the 2007 targeted investment neighborhoods program (TIN), which promotes home ownership, property renovation and community activities.

Milwaukee-based commercial real estate brokerage releases 2007 market outlook

GrandStay Residential Suites plans to build a 72-room hotel in Sheboygan's South Pier District near the Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center.

A West Milwaukee-based small-business owner was able to save potentially 30 percent on his property casualty insurance premiums, or...

Wisconsin business owners, homeowners and drivers can expect to see either modest increases or reductions in their property and casualty insurance premiums in 2007. P&C insurance in Wisconsin and its surrounding states, including Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Iowa, had premium decreases of 1 percent in the past nine months and a decrease of 0.2 percent in 2005, said Genio Staranczak, chief economist for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, based in Des Plaines, Ill.

Some small- and medium-sized business owners are combating rising health insurance benefit costs with the help of an online tool launched by Humana Inc.
The Louisville, Ky.-based insurance company has created the Broker Benefit Utilization Director, or Broker BUD.

Health insurance costs are expected to increase again in 2007, although not by as much as in some recent years, local health insurance brokers say. Still, as health care costs continue to escalate, more businesses are asking their employees to shoulder a greater share of their health insurance costs. Many firms are creating health benefits packages with high deductibles, often combined with a health savings account (HSA) or a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA). That trend is also expected to continue in 2007, health insurance brokers say.

SIOR Wisconsin Chapter annual awards, installation of officers and scholarship banquet, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Thursday, Jan. 18, at 1 p.m. to celebrate the start of construction...

Milwaukee-based Dave Schmidt Realty recently purchased the 104-unit Quail Hollow Apartments at 8118 W. Forest Garden Ct., Greenfield, from...