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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Number of Homes For Sale Grows In May; Prices Drop
June 20, 2011 (Brian Michael)
As should be expected for this time of the year, the number of homes listed for sale in May increased by 3.5 percent compared to April to a total of 2.3 million listings, however, what wouldn’t be expected during the normally busy spring selling season is a 1.6 percent month-over-month price drop, but according to the latest data released by Realtor.com that’s exactly what happened.
With home prices finally starting to show a little resiliency and strength the Read more [...]
NYSE Euronext Welcomes NYSE-listed Hexcel Corporation to Its European Market
PARIS, Jun 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Hexcel Corporation
/quotes/zigman/147375/quotes/nls/hxl HXL
+2.15%
, a leading global supplier
of advanced materials, celebrated its Fast Path cross-listing on NYSE
Euronext in Paris today, making it Read more [...]
Smith: As the city shrinks, plague of empty homes spreads
Angie Calvert and her husband, Rob Uppencamp, just bought their dream house.Others would call it a nightmare.No one has lived in the house for two years. With a crumbling back patio, lead-based paint and sagging gutters, the house shows its neglect.Across the street sit two more empty houses -- one well-kept enough to be considered merely vacant, the other so unkempt that it's clearly abandoned. Down the street, empty houses and desolate commercial property mar block after block.Why would Calvert Read more [...]
DIARY – European Central Bank (ECB) events to August 20
Minneapolis history for sale: Young churchgoers wanted
Posted: 8:00 am Mon, June 20, 2011
By Matt M. Johnson
The 1882 Augustana Lutheran Church remains largely intact to this day, though it is now sandwiched between a 1947 church school building and a newer entry vestibule that covers church steps that were formerly outdoors. (Photo: Matt M. Johnson)
The sanctuary at Augustana Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis feels like an enormous place these days.
Built Read more [...]
Asbestos should be listed in Rotterdam Convention as potentially harmful
Many years ago, back when Conservatives had yet to even dream of a stable, majority, conservative opportunity and Jack Layton's dad was a Red Tory minister, I was a logging contractor in British Columbia’s West Coast mountains. Those were rugged days in rugged surroundings, with rugged loggers doing their best to out-macho their co-workers. Things like hearing and eye protection, safety clothing, or aversion to asbestos were afterthoughts at best. There was no malice; understanding and communicating Read more [...]
For sale: house where one family has lived since 1698
A HOUSE is being put up for sale by the family that has owned it for more than 300 years.
Peebles in Crocker End, near Nettlebed, was built in 1698 by Richard Butler and has been passed down through his family ever since.
The current owners, David and Margaret Butler, want to downsize as they are due to retire.
The couple have lived there for 31 years and believe they are the eighth generation to do so.
Mr Butler, 64, owns builders and carpenters HJ Butler Son with his son Michael Read more [...]
House that time forgot goes on sale for £250k
A 17TH century farmhouse with no bathroom, loo, drains, mains water or heating is on the market for £250,000.
Grade II-listed Dandra Garth is a four-bedroom house in three acres of land and was the home of Walter Harper, 92, who has recently moved into a rest facility.
Mr Harper and his family farmed the land from 1942 until the early 1980s.
He kept warm in front of an open fire and washed by boiling water on the range to fill a tin bath in the kitchen.
A tap supplies Read more [...]
Listed property sector calls for clear BEE leasing policy at Public Works
The imminent gazetting of the property charter is unlikely to benefit the listed property sector which, for several years, has only been able to secure short-term leases from the government because of the lack of a policy on black empowerment for listed property firms.
Lydia Bici, the deputy director-general for construction and property policy regulation at the Department of Public Works, last week confirmed Read more [...]