Get Out: Patch’s Pick-and-Choose Weekend Planner

Here's to hoping for nice, warm weather this weekend because all the events listed here are planned outside. Rain, rain stay away. 1. Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival Where/When: Rosslyn Gateway, 1911 Fort Myer Dr., Arlington. Friday, 8 p.m. Why Go: The first film in this summer-long festival is "Groundhog Day." All the films this summer will feature actors from "Saturday Night Live." For a full list of this year's movie, check out the article Clarendon Patch ran earlier this week. Pricing: Free 2. Read more [...]

Irish Investor Holds Fire Sale

By CRAIG KARMIN One of Ireland's top investors who gobbled up trophy properties in Manhattan, London and Eastern Europe during the market's go-go years now owes hundreds of millions of dollars and is holding a global fire sale of his assets. Derek Quinlan's first New York City property to get dumped: an Upper East Side townhouse. A buyer has signed a contract to purchase the five-story townhouse at 20 E. 64th St., which had an asking price of $29.5 million, according to people familiar Read more [...]

TSX-listed corporate dividends and distributions declared April 28, 2011

TORONTO - Dividends or distributions were declared or updated on the followed listed issues on the Toronto Stock Exchange on April 28, 2011. Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX:ABX): $0.12. Payable Jun 15. Record May 31. Astral Media Inc. Cl 'a' Nv (TSX:ACM.A): $0.375. Payable Jul 29. Record Jul 14. Astral Media Inc. Cl 'b' Sv (TSX:ACM.B): $0.375. Payable Jul 29. Record Jul 14. Aastra Technologies Limited (TSX:AAH): $0.2. Payable May Read more [...]

House Hunt: Open House, Many Homes Offered

Pasadena boasts homes of every type and price range for those seeking to make it their home. They include houses and townhouses with views of water, large abodes and much smaller ones. The house at 341 Ridge Road in Pasadena features an updated kitchen, a fully furnished basement, water views, a screened-in porch and a community marina. The house is described with some details in an information sheet available at the house.  “Wonderful cottage in highly desired Brookfield on the Magothy, meticulously Read more [...]

Premium Online Public Relations Service Listed for Sale by Auction – Your

Premium digital PR service Your-Story.org has been listed for public auction, providing a rare opportunity for online promotion specialists to buy into the coveted Google News, digital PR and social media news market. Marketed as a major SEO tool and business in its own right, Your-Story.org is a mature web property, which was founded in October 2008. Enjoying relationships with major PR firms and public relations departments from a number of Blue Chip companies, Your-Story.org allows users Read more [...]

75 pct of Chinese listed developers see profits rise in 2010

BEIJING, Apr. 28, 2011 (Xinhua News Agency) -- As of April 25, 96 out of the 120-odd listed Chinese real estate developers had unveiled their earning reports for the year of 2010, and nearly 75 percent of them posted a growth in net profits, according to Wind Information, a Shanghai-based financial data provider.To be more specific, 13 real estate developers saw their net profits gain more than 100 percent year on year. Changchun Jingkai (Group) Co. Ltd. (600215.SH), in particular, witnessed its Read more [...]

Country houses for sale in East Anglia

Having outperformed most other parts of the UK in 2010, the residential-property market in the eastern region is set to maintain a steady course in 2011, according to the latest research from Bidwells. Recent sightings of the year's first London buyers-for now, more of a trickle than a full-blown tidal wave-have boosted the confidence of local agents, for whom last winter seemed never-ending. Equally encouraging, perhaps, is the increasingly rapid turnover of houses at the upper end of the Read more [...]

Rajik put down after Sagaro Stakes injury

Rajik (blue cap): sustained a pastern injury during the Sagaro Stakes   PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)  RAJIK, the winner of six races including two Listed events, has had to be put down after suffering a serious leg injury in the Sagaro Stakes at Ascot on Wednesday. Speaking on Thursday morning, the six-year-old's trainer Charlie Swan said: "We are all devastated. Rajik was such a tough horse and a very good one, too. He improved a lot last season and we were so looking Read more [...]

Delaware pediatrician Earl B. Bradley’s property listed for sheriff sale

<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8-->The former office of pediatrician Earl B. Bradley near Lewes is scheduled for sheriff's sale in May.Bradley owes almost $70,000 to Delaware National Bank for the former BayBees Pediatrics office at 18259 Coastal Highway.The sale is scheduled for May 17 and is listed on the Sussex County government website. Attorney Robert G. Gibbs, who represents the bank, confirmed it is Bradley's property.Bradley's office has been empty since his December 2009 arrest, when Read more [...]