Monthly Archives: June 2011

More than 600 Memphis area open houses scheduled this weekend

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Are you looking for the right one, but not ready for a committed relationship? Want to shop around? Breeze in, breeze out? If so, the Realtors’ National Open House Weekend Saturday and Sunday could be the right matchmaker. Open houses “provide wonderful opportunities for folks who may not have a (real estate) representative or may just happen by the property and just casually drop in to see what’s available on the market,” said Teresa Coop, a Realtor with Benchmark at Southwind. She’ll Read more [...]

Santa Ana home market slows slightly

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Every two weeks, Orange County broker Steve Thomas publishes a report on the supply of local homes for sale. Here's what the latest report -- as of May 26 -- has to say about Santa Ana … 581 residences listed in brokers' MLS system with 197 new deals opening in the past 30 days. By Thomas's math, this community has a "market time" (months in would take to sell all inventory at current pace of new escrows) of 2.95 months vs. 2.88 months found two weeks earlier vs. 2.23 months seen a year earlier. Read more [...]

English Heritage deals blow to £340m UBS office

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British Land's plans to build a new £340m headquarters for Swiss bank UBS at Broadgate in the City of London have been thrown into doubt after English Heritage recommended the listing of the site on Friday yesterday.The watchdog said Broadgate Square, designed by Peter Foggo, then of Arup, in the 1980s, is "one of the most important and successful developments of its period and type, possessing special architectural and historic interest, and therefore should be listed at Grade II*".It added: Read more [...]

Rhode Island will hold statewide open house of affordable properties on June 11

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The statewide open house of affordable housing includes this tiny single-family house at 42 Violet St. in Providence, listed at $68,000. The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman <!--Capitol Square at Smith Hill, in Providence, has commercial space on the ground floor and 13 condos above. The Providence Journal / Andrew Dickerman -->PROVIDENCE –– Nonprofit developers are planning a statewide open house event on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for their affordable housing that is currently Read more [...]

Diseño Boston Space Listed For Sale

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Four traditional activities of HK listed as China’s national intangible …

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HONG KONG, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Secretary for Home Affairs in Hong Kong Tsang Tak-sing said Friday that four local intangible cultural heritage items had been successfully inscribed onto the third national list of intangible cultural heritage. The newly inscribed four heritage items include the Cheung Chau Jiao Festival, the Tai O dragon boat water parade, the Tai Hang fire dragon dance and the Yu Lan Ghost Festival of the Hong Kong Chiu Chow community. According to Tsang, the government of Read more [...]

Auckland housing market strengthens

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New figures show the Auckland housing market continuing to strengthen, with buyers said to be facing a lack of choice.Real estate company Barfoot Thompson said it sold 889 residential properties in Auckland in May, compared to 723 sales in April.The May sales were 12.2 per cent higher than a year earlier.The company listed 1,169 new properties in May, up 13.2 per cent from April but down 15 per cent from a year earlier.At the end of May, the company had 5,249 properties on its books, Read more [...]

House Hunt: Check Out Properties For Sale In Stow

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