News Release University Park District offers a bucolic example of early 20th-century urban planning A home in the new University Park National Historic District, comprised of the sections of Larchmont and University Avenues; Pelham Drive; Allenhurst, Radcliffe and Capen Roads, and Niagara Falls Boulevard in the City of Buffalo. Download JPEG Many elegant early 20th-century homes were constructed in the University Park neighborhood, Buffalo's first residential Read more [...]

The Delhi High Court's Chief Justice Dipak Misra has declared his total assets worth over Rs 65 lakhs, including two residential houses, fixed deposits in banks and insurance policies. In his statement on his assets and liabilities uploaded on the high court's website recently, Justice Misra, however, has listed no liabilities, despite having raised a loan of Rs 22.50 lakhs from HDFC Bank to buy his flat in Delhi. The Read more [...]

Miles Shipside, of property sales website Rightmove, agrees. “We’ll see larger falls in weaker markets due to oversupply and forced sales,” he says. “But pockets where demand remains credit crunch-resistant and supply is low will see prices underpinned, somewhat immune to falls.” The Hamptons International agency believes central London prices will rise by five per cent this year, bolstered by £7 billion of City bonuses, much of which will go into bricks and mortar. Meanwhile, Read more [...]

BEN HEATHER - The Press Shock leaves 10 homes uninhabitable A row of heritage-listed Christchurch houses that survived the September 4 earthquake has taken a battering in the Boxing Day aftershock. Four two-storey Victorian houses in Chester St East, each partitioned into two homes, have lost their chimneys and suffered damage to the dividing parapets, with one collapsing through the neighbour's fence Read more [...]