Boca Raton, FL (February 10, 2012) — Bluegreen Corporation, a leading provider of colorful places to play is excited to introduce itself as the management company of The Studio Homes at Ellis Square property in Savannah, GA, with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4pm.
General Manager of Studio Homes, Kristin Burghardt [...]

MIAMI BEACH, FL (Feb. 10, 2012) — The Residences at W South Beach reports a total of $250 million in sales to date. This noteworthy milestone for the project follows a series of 40 closings between May and September 2011 with prices averaging over $1600-per-square-foot.
The 408-unit oceanfront condo-hotel has consistently maintained its premium price point [...]

CHICAGO, IL (February 10, 2012) — Fitch Ratings has upgraded the Issuer Default Rating and long-term debt ratings for Textron Inc. (TXT) and Textron Financial Corporation (TFC) to ‘BBB-’ from ‘BB+’. The Rating Outlook is Stable. TXT’s short-term ratings have been upgraded to ‘F3′ from ‘B’. TFC’s subordinated debt rating has been upgraded to ‘BB’ [...]

Markham, ON (February 10, 2012) — NORTHWIND has expanded its Professional Services offering with the addition of Management Strategy Services to ensure hotel owners and managers are using the powerful capabilities of the Maestro hotel management system to maximize their operational efficiencies and productivity levels as well as reduce costs and drive revenue. NORTHWIND [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (February 9, 2012) — Two of the vacation ownership’s primary cloud based software company’s have agreed to join forces to build an Application Programming Interface (API) which will make Merlin even more beneficial as a [...]

Full Year Adjusted EPS Growth of 25%
Completes $902 Million of Share Repurchases and Increases Dividend 53%
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (February 9, 2012) –– Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:WYN) has announced results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2011.
Highlights:

Fourth quarter adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $0.47, compared with $0.46 in the fourth quarter of [...]

ORLANDO, FL (Feb. 9, 2012) — Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation VAC +1.97% will report fourth quarter and full year 2011 financial results before the market opens on March 15, 2012. A conference call is scheduled to follow at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss the Company’s results as well as the outlook for 2012. In advance [...]

San Francisco, CA (February 8, 2012) –– Resort Equities, an emerging national leader in the shared ownership industry, has announced its participation as a co-host of the 12th Annual Ragatz Fractional & Resort Real Estate Conference, held March 12-13 at the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Gainey Ranch in Arizona. This year’s conference will be a departure from previous events, which focused solely on the fractional industry and will feature topics on all forms of resort real estate.
Resort Equities Founder and CEO Keith Cox added, “Along with the beautiful new conference venue, expanded discussion topics will cover [...]

Washington (February 08, 2012) — Tom and Mindi Davis of San Diego took time during a recent vacation at their Marriott Vacation Club timeshare in Panama City Beach, Florida to share the reasons they bought and vacation with timeshare. Their video and blog is the fourth in a series by the American Resort Development Association [...]

Charlottesville, VA (February 8, 2012) — Wellington Financial, the exclusive Resort Finance lending correspondent for Liberty Bank, says the Connecticut-based bank recently expanded an existing receivables loan from $40 to $50 million for Silverleaf Resorts, a timeshare resort developer located in Dallas, Texas.
“Liberty Bank and Wellington Financial are excellent at partnering with us to successfully [...]