Monthly Archives: February 2011

Rental market madness

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Demand for rental property in Auckland is at crisis point, with some houses now attracting as many as 200 would-be tenants. Desperate tenants are often having to spend months searching for a place to live, and some even engage in bidding wars. Landlords are sitting pretty. Rental agents say they are receiving hundreds of inquiries for listings, especially for stand-alone houses close to Auckland's central business district. An agent who listed a four-bedroom property in Balmoral said he received Read more [...]

BSY is worth only a few crore

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By: Shivaji rao pratap On: 07 Feb 2011 02:06 am All the people who hate bSY and love others should ask their leaders like deshpande,kumar swamy,devegowdas ,siddaramaih ect to delare their assets. the public has a right to know who took away all their taxes,and other wealth which belongs to the people of karnataka and here is the SWINDLERS LIST disclosed by Tehelka! It is almost two years since the German Government had passed on the names and bank account details of eighteen Read more [...]

Jesse Metcalfe puts LA home up for sale

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By Nicola Pittam Feb 6, 2011, 15:55 GMT Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe has offered to sell his Los Angeles home for $2.2 million.The Book Of Eli, Film Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News The Mediterranean main house and guesthouse have 2,000 square feet of living space, including three bedrooms and three bathrooms. And there is also a stone hot tub that sits on a hill above the home. The actor bought the property, situated Read more [...]

Kutcher puts bachelor pad up for sale

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Ashton Kutcher is finally leaving his single days behind him by putting his luxury LA bachelor pad up for sale. Six years after meeting Demi Moore and embracing married life, the one-time party boy is finally putting his past to bed. The Hollywood Hills house has been listed for sale by the 32-year-old actor at an asking price of a whopping $2.6 million. According to the listing, the pad was extended to 3,235 sq ft from an original size of 2,002 sq ft.  The home boasts a modern Read more [...]

Learn about listed building

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Learn about listed building 11:20am Sunday 6th February 2011 Print Email Share Comments(0) THE restoration and repair of a landmark in Suckley will be the subject of a talk later this month. The current owner of the White House, Lionel Persey QC, will give an illustrated insight into the planning philosophy and execution of the restoration of the grade one listed building at Suckley Village Hall on Saturday, Read more [...]

Market for $1 million-plus homes showed life last year

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As home sales dropped in central Ohio last year, one exclusive corner of the market enjoyed a slight turnaround: 47 houses sold for more than $1million. That's still a tiny fraction of the market - about 0.2 percent of all homes sold - but last year was the first year since 2005 to show any gain in that rarefied niche.   "We've got a collection of million-dollar properties in central Ohio that are starting to move again," said Doug Green, a Prudential Metrix Realtors agent who helps coordinate Read more [...]

Downturn spikes housing vacancies

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<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 0--> In Morris County, Pequannock Township Manager David Holberg said a very large, newly built continuing-care retirement community largely accounts for a spike similar to that in Colts Neck — almost 355 percent. "The community is known as Cedar Crest and it has almost 2,000 units, including 1,500 residential units," Holberg said. "It's extremely fluid. Vacancy rates would be higher there than at a single-family housing development." In other municipalities Read more [...]

Opera House’s underground show

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A THREE-YEAR $152 million program to build a series of tunnels and a loading dock deep beneath the Sydney Opera House officially starts today. Periodically over the next three years the majority of the forecourt of the world heritage-listed building will be closed to the public to allow for excavation and construction, however visitors will still be able to walk to the Royal Botanic Gardens. and Read more [...]

Revamp for ‘iconic’ Byker estate

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6 February 2011 Last updated at 10:02 ET More than 9,000 people live on the estate More than £2m is to be spent on reshaping part of an iconic Tyneside housing estate which has been shunned by tenants for a decade. Bolam Coyne is a distinctive cluster of 17 flats that forms part of Newcastle's Grade II listed Byker Estate. But complicated shared access through balconies Read more [...]