Where Homes Fare the Best

By JOSH BARBANEL If you live in Flushing or Bayside or Bay Ridge, you are used to yawning at news of the triumphs and excess of the Manhattan luxury market. But now owners in the other boroughs have reason to cheer: Despite sales declines across New York City, median prices for homes in the rest of the city held up better than they did in Manhattan in the fourth quarter, according to new sales figures. In Brooklyn and the Bronx, median prices rose slightly in the final Read more [...]

Housing listings lowest since ’05 – The Free Lance

Median Sales Prices* (Dec. '11) (Nov. '11) (Dec. '10) Fredericksburg city $270,879 $225,000 $265,000 Stafford $250,000 $247,500 $242,450 Spotsylvania $190,000 $185,000 $179,950 Caroline $123,900 $142,500 $124,900 King George $246,950 $241,500 $239,600 Orange $168,750 $207,250 $169,900 Fauquier $250,000 $259,950 $233,000 Culpeper $147,500 $186,000 $184,000 Fredericksburg area** $215,000 $209,488 $197,000 * Median is the middle price. For example, if 11 homes were sold, the median Read more [...]

Property market ends on a high

JAZIAL CROSSLEY Auckland's residential property market ended the year on a high, with prices rising and the number of houses sold climbing, according to one leading agency. Barfoot Thompson reported the average December sale price was up one per cent in December from a month earlier, at $573,071, equalling a typical increase of $5500. Managing director Peter Thompson said the property market was extremely active in the residential Read more [...]

Etisalat to sponsor Meydan’s next meeting

Dubai: The excitement of the Dubai World Cup Carnival continues tomorrow when the Dubai Racing Club stages the first round of the exciting Al Maktoum Challenge series as the showpiece event of a seven-race programme sponsored by etisalat. The series includes both Purebred Arabians and Thoroughbreds over 1600 metres. Both races lead-off a tally of 33 Group and Listed, also known as black type events, to be run at the Carnival and Dubai World Read more [...]

Etisalat to sponsor Meydan’s next meeting

Dubai: The excitement of the Dubai World Cup Carnival continues tomorrow when the Dubai Racing Club stages the first round of the exciting Al Maktoum Challenge series as the showpiece event of a seven-race programme sponsored by etisalat. The series includes both Purebred Arabians and Thoroughbreds over 1600 metres. Both races lead-off a tally of 33 Group and Listed, also known as black type events, to be run at the Carnival and Dubai World Read more [...]