Monthly Archives: January 2012

A fishy tale of Wales’ multi-coloured harbour houses

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It is one of the best-known and best-loved traditions of West Wales’ coastline. Sion Morgan traces the history of painting harbourside houses in a spectrum of pastels LEGEND has it that the pastel shades of West Wales’ harbours are a legacy of the fishermen forefathers of these small communities. Once, as the story has it, fishermen would paint their terrace homes around the dock in varying colours so they could recognise their own as they returned from the sea. Today those colours are Read more [...]

Strong January sales point to housing rebound

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Going, going, gone ... Jodi Gordon's Potts Point apartment is for sale. Photo: Simon Alekna HOME buyers in Sydney's east and inner west are out in force, with agents reporting a surprising number of early sales. Traditionally January is a quiet month for sales, but some believe the two interest rate cuts in November and December could be encouraging buyers. Along with many Read more [...]

How to Find a Home Using the Internet

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  According to National Association of Realtors research, 90 percent of people looking for a home start their search on the Internet. It is easy and requires little commitment other than the time it takes to search. I will share some sites with you that buyers find helpful. There are several iphone, iPad or other smart phone apps that will help you locate homes and open houses. My favorite is Kurio.mobi. This app is used by many Realtors on the go. Kurio’s data is directly from First Multiple Read more [...]

Joe Montana’s villa is for sale, listed at $35 million

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Up for sale is a one-of-a-kind Joe Montana item.The NFL Hall of Famer is selling his Villa Montana estate, in Calistoga, in the Napa Valley wine country.The asking price is a cool $35 million. (And we'll save you the trouble of doing the math. The estimated monthly mortgage payment would be $129,943.)The 500-acre estate includes a 9,700-square-foot home with a stone exterior and tile roof, plus: a guest house, caretakers unit, pool and spa, private pond and basketball court.For Read more [...]

TSE Keeps Olympus Listed, Imposes Fine

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BY KANA INAGAKI TOKYO—The Tokyo Stock Exchange said Friday it will keep shares of scandal-hit Olympus Corp. listed, while imposing a maximum, if largely symbolic, fine on the camera maker for damage caused to investor confidence by its financial coverup. Despite a massive erosion in the Japanese company's capital caused by the 13-year effort to hide $1.5 billion in investment losses, the exchange concluded that there were no accounting irregularities large enough to "distort" investor Read more [...]

Plans to repair historic A-listed building

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Jan 20 2012 by Greg Christison, Perthshire Advertiser Friday A BIG COUNTY charitable trust has applied to planners to carry out essential maintenance on a historic Perthshire A-listed building. Custodians the Clan Menzies Trust want to carry out vital repairs on the Menzies Mausoleum, originally Weem Parish Church, but also known as St Cuthbert’s or St David’s. Following an inspection, it was determined the building, located east of Weem on the north side of the B846 road, requires Read more [...]

Eurozone crisis events are like Hindi movies in cinema: Premji

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For IT czar Azim Premji, what's happening in the eurozone facing a two-year debt crisis is something like new Bollywood films hitting silver screens every week in India.   "I think what you are really seeing in Europe is like a Hindi movie - it's a week-to-week change in terms of whatever events are developing there", the Chairman of New York Stock Exchange-listed Read more [...]