DAYTONA BEACH -- Businessman Alex Spanos has a habit of buying old buildings and fixing them up. He's done it with three commercial buildings here along West International Speedway Boulevard, including Spanos Motors, which he co-owns with younger brother Vic. Now he's living in one of his recent renovation projects, a mid-1920s-era downtown building at Palmetto and Orange avenues that, in the traditional town style, had a business on the ground floor and residences Read more [...]

A former shoe factory site has been transformed into homes following a £20 million redevelopment. Yesterday, Mayor of Leicester Sir Peter Soulsby cut the ribbon on the showhome opened at the Wheatsheaf Works site, in Knighton Fields. Leicester architects JSP Architecture devised plans to bring together converted homes in the original building and new properties, designed around an extensive landscaped courtyard. There will be 172 homes in all, incorporating the grade II-listed Read more [...]

Open houses are back with a vengeance this weekend, with over 125 properties showing. This weekend is one of the more interesting in months, thanks to a bunch of new listings and some sizable price reductions. 767 Valley Rd., Montclair List Price: $899,000 Taxes: $25,481 Acreage: 0.55 Acres 7BR/3.1BA Built in approximately 1900, this 4,000-sq. ft. 11-room Victorian has a lot of everything: bedrooms (seven, spread out over two floors); wood burning fireplaces (three); and porches (two). The Read more [...]