Monthly Archives: November 2010

Terraced street on sale for £400 million

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The terrace was designed by Royal architect Sir John Nash as part of the Prince Regent's - later King George IV - plans for the 19th century masterpiece Regent's Park. Overlooking the park's rowing lake, Cornwall Terrace's double-fronted mansions belonged to the British nobility for 150 years before being occupied by commercial concerns. Developers Oakmayne purchased the terrace two-and-a-half years ago and employed a group of renowned interior designers, supervised by English Read more [...]

Why are there so many houses for sale without listings? – Las Vegas Review

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In fact, by the end of October, GLVAR reported 12,379 single-family homes listed without any sort of offer. That's an increase of 4.1 percent from September and an increase of 53.3 percent from one year ago. For condos and townhomes, the 3,314 properties listed without offers in October represented an increase of 5.2 percent from last month and 75.9 percent from last year.This is something we're watching closely, but I'm not overly concerned about this statistic.Personally, Read more [...]

Group upset with feds’ reluctance to list Utah prairie dog as endangered

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An environmental group is protesting the U.S. Interior Department’s appeal of a court ruling that could lead to greater protection for the Utah prairie dog. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sided with WildEarth Guardians in September in ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had not adequately explained why the southwestern Utah rodents are not sufficiently threatened to warrant the most protected status of endangered. WildEarth Guardians hopes the ruling Read more [...]

The making of an al-Qaeda list

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The Irish Times - Saturday, November 27, 201012...and Ibrahim Boyasseer (right), the two Irish residents who have been named by the UN's al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctions committee. Illustrations: Brian GallagherChafiq Ayadi ...MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs CorrespondentTwo men living in Ireland are on a UN list of people associated with al-Qaeda. The committee that creates the list identifies individuals and recommends measures to curb their activities, but there is growing criticism of the processTHE Read more [...]

Shadows of Doubt

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A story from The Memphis NewsOn newsstands throughout the city Foreboding ‘shadow inventory’ threatens housing recovery By Sarah Baker Updated 2:06PM As the housing market continues to improve, a significant backlog of foreclosed and distressed properties that have not been put on the market could bring the recovery to Read more [...]

Tiny town, teensy cottages – and outsize appeal

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She took one look at the town's tiny historic cottages with steeply pitched roofs tucked under towering oaks and tulip poplars and decided it would be home. "When I first found it, I felt like I'd driven into Brigadoon," she said of town, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located just outside Gaithersburg. Many houses face trees and green space with walking paths rather than roads. An octagonal, wood-shingled building dating from 1902 houses a multitude of programs, Read more [...]

Unitech bid for UK-listed UCP’s gets rejected

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Independent directors of UK-listed Unitech Corporate Parks Plc have rejected the nearly Rs 700-crore takeover bid from Indian realty major Unitech, saying the offer undervalues the company.UCP, which was formed in late 2006 by Unitech, among others, to invest in Indian commercial real estate, is listed on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) AIM market."The independent directors of UCP... have concluded that the indicative pre-conditional offer at 31 pence per UCP share significantly Read more [...]

Top 18 Anti-Gay Hate Groups Listed, Obsessed With Nazis, Resent Being Called …

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Earlier this week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a list of political and religious organizations that campaign against gay marriage, calling 13 of them “hate groups.” The Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups is considered the foremost authority on the topic in all the land: Generally, the SPLC’s listings of these groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities Read more [...]