Local Home Sales and Listings Report

Featured New Listings: 69 Shell Rd, Mill Valley: $1,195,000 (Listed on Nov. 19); 3 beds, 3.0 bath, 2,760 square feet, built in 1937 (Listed by Sandra M Park) Featured Newly Accepted Offers: 385 County View Dr, Mill Valley: $884,500 (Contingent – Nov. 17) 4 beds, 3.5 bath, 2,171 square feet, built in 1971 (Listed by Cathy C Youngling) Featured New Sales: 280 Flamingo Rd, Mill Valley: Sold for $575,000 (List Price $639,000, sold on Nov. 22, 62 days on market), 3 beds, 1.0 baths, 1,006 square feet, Read more [...]

Chow Tai Fook IPO to Raise Up to $2.8 Billion

BY PRUDENCE HO HONG KONG—A jewellery retailer controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Cheng Yu-tung plans to take orders Monday for its up to US$2.8 billion offering while a Chinese firm that specializes in saving energy at power plants kicks off a $1 billion listing, the latest in the flood of Hong Kong initial public offerings that are tapping investor funds despite market volatility and investor wariness. Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd., which will start taking orders from investors Read more [...]

Liberia: CDC’s Black List Out

The New Dawn (Monrovia) AllAfrica aggregates reports from Africa's news media.This is an article from the Liberian press. 25 November 2011 A newsletter allegedly circulated by the opposition Congress for Democratic Change or CDC and circulated in Monrovia has listed several institutions, including media houses that it describes as "Axis of Evil," and has asked all its members and sympathizers not to transact business with these institutions. The newsletter also Read more [...]

Narbethong Community Hall replacement opens tomorrow after Black Saturday …

The events of the Black Saturday bushfires that consumed Victoria, Australia in February 2009 have listed the disaster as one of the most extreme bushfires ever recorded, with 173 people losing their lives and 414 receiving injuries. One of the first public buildings to receive damage as a result of the fires was Narbethong Community Hall which has since been replaced by a beautiful timber and steel volume designed by BVN and Arup. Tomorrow this new facility will be opened to the public Read more [...]

Tax sale in Hamilton inspires grumbles – The Times of Trenton

Google MapsHamilton HAMILTON — The lead-up to the township’s tax sale on Dec. 14 has left some residents grumbling. Monday was the last day residents could pay off any late municipal or sewer tax payments before being subject to a $100 advertising fee and the potential embarrassment of seeing their name listed under a tax sale notice in local newspapers. Under the tax sale, unpaid tax liabilities are sold to third parties that make the payments and then collect interest and principal Read more [...]

Beyond the Hedges: Average ‘parcel value’ close in Palm Beach and Manalapan

Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type Palm Beach is often compared to Manalapan, its little sister to the south, where a number of waterfront properties have changed hands over the past several months.The amount of residential estate in the tiny town always reminds me of Spencer Tracy’s famous description of Katharine Hepburn’s spare figure: “Not much meat on her,” Tracy said, “but what there is, is choice.”With that in mind, compare the 2011 “average Read more [...]

Must Read: 2011 Modesto-area guide to holiday events

Dec. 2 — 6:30 p.m., eighth annual Lights on Parade, Main Street, downtown Turlock. Theme: "Christmas Around the World." Features brightly illuminated floats. (209) 668-5594.Dec. 2 — A White Christmas Parade of Lights. 7 p.m. Downtown Atwater, Broadway and Third streets. Dec. 3 — 5:30 p.m., Celebration of Lights Parade, I Street, downtown Modesto. Theme: "Tinsel Town." Features brightly illuminated floats, firetrucks, horses, clowns. Foster Farms Dairy is presenting sponsor, Cool Cow is Read more [...]