Prudential Maui Realtors will now be known as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Maui Properties.
Business magnate Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway bought Prudential Real Estate in 2012. John Skenderian, president of his Maui real estate firm, has been affiliated with Prudential since 1992, said his wife, Leslee Skenderian, a Realtor with the firm.
She said that the local company, which has about 30 Realtors, was asked to be part of the Berkshire Hathaway brand and agreed because of its international…
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Liberty International Holding Corp., a Fort Lauderdale-based penny stock company, was thrown into bankruptcy court after three creditors alleging $5.5 million in claims filed an involuntary Chapter 7 petition against it.
An involuntary petition is filed when a company refuses to pay its creditors and they ask a bankruptcy judge to either liquidate or reorganize the company so they can recoup their money.
In October, federal authorities filed criminal charges against Liberty International and five…
Editor's note: Business First is marking the end of 2014 by revisiting some of the most popular stories on our website this year. Reporter Michael Petro — after days of shoveling and digging out — looked back on the November lake-effect snowstorm that overwhelmed parts of Western New York.
I wrote this from my West Seneca home on Wednesday, Nov. 19, with 5 feet of snow around the house and on my roof. My wife and I live on the west side of town, several streets away from the South Buffalo border,…
Prices for single-family homes and condos continued to rise in 2014. Here's a look at that story, as well as other residential real estate headlines that grabbed reader attention this year.
The median price of a single-family home hits record $719,5000 in November as sales drop
The price of a single home on Oahu hit record $719,500 in November, while condominiums prices broke a record in June, with the median price hitting $360,000.
The Honolulu Board of Realtors cited a severe lack of inventory…
TV-over-the-web startup Aereo had 14,700 paying subscribers in the Boston area before it shut down its service in June after a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the New York-based company, which had an office in Boston, had more than 108,000 subscribers in 14 cities at the end of June — a 40 percent increase from the end of last year, according to filings with the U.S. Copyright Office.
New York was the company's largest market for Aereo, with 33,000 subscribers…
What are you looking to accomplish as the newly appointed CEO of the social services organization?
Some of the areas I'm focusing on are enhancing our fund development and fundraising efforts and really engaging the community to invest in our services. I see us as crisis-first responders, similar to first-responder services. We're really looking to see how we can get the community to support our services to be sure we're always here. I'd also like to accomplish enhancing our organizational capacity.…
More than 100 years of history ends Wednesday when E.T. Paul Tire Co. closes for good.
The Olde Towne East business began 118 years ago as a blacksmith shop in the days before automobiles were the dominant form of transportation. It has called 123 Parsons Ave. home for 116 years, but will be shutting down Dec. 31.
The shop is making way as the Ohio Department of Transportation moves ahead with long-in-the-works plans for the Interstate 70/71 interchange.
"We'd been expecting this for quite awhile,"…
