{"id":4512,"date":"2010-11-24T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2010-11-24T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:32:57","slug":"benchmark-to-increase-real-estate-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/11\/benchmark-to-increase-real-estate-assets","title":{"rendered":"Benchmark To Increase Real Estate Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Estate could eventually account for up to 30-50 per cent of  Benchmark (Bahamas) asset base. The  BISX-listed company told the Tribune newspaper that they are prepared to invest an additional $2-$3 million in  this area if the right short-term opportunities present themselves  after turning a small third quarter profit.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Brown, Benchmark (Bahamas) president and chief executive, said  that while the company&#8217;s financial performance had taken a &#8220;hammering&#8221;  in previous quarters, largely due to the slippage in values of both  Bahamian and internationally-listed equities, the company had managed to  generate a small $105,000 &#8211; $0.02 per share &#8211; profit for the three  months to September 30, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Estate could eventually account for up to 30-50 per cent of Benchmark (Bahamas) asset base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[98,47,28],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-financial","tag-investing","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}