End-of-ski-season events and deals to look for before the snow runs out

It’s that bittersweet time of year again (mainly bitter) when the ski season winds down for the final splashdown at Colorado’s ski areas. With no snow in the forecast, excepting a slight chance Monday night, you best get out before it’s too late. If you do nothing else ski-wise for the remainder of the spring, you ought to at least make plans for one or more of the events listed below at Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) ski areas. Special thanks, once again, to CSCUSA for compiling Read more [...]

Sorry, A High Listing Price Won’t Help You Sell Faster – Real Estate News

We humans have a natural craving to simplify the complex. This same instinct, which explains why legends, films and fairy tales from every culture tend to boil down to heroes vs. villains, also explains why so many buyers and sellers desperately seek rules of thumb for making the often scary, rarely simple decisions they face. Reality check: your real estate transaction is not a children’s story. Grown-up life is complicated, as are money matters and relationships. Since real estate involves Read more [...]

Baristaville Open Houses: Sunday, Mar. 25

This weekend’s open house scene can be characterized by excess; there are a lot of new listings and stately offerings at high price points. At least 14 properties are priced over $1,000,000, a departure from recent weeks, but there are still deals to be had; seven are listed at $200,000 and under. A good mix of condos are among the 110 or so properties showing throughout Baristaville too. 495 Park St., Montclair List Price: $1,999,000 Taxes: $44,612 Acreage: 0.58 Acres 7BR/4.2BA One of the Read more [...]

Conroy now king of the sports codes on free-to-air

The new anti-siphoning laws also give the communications minister the power to ''declare'' a sporting event be listed as a ''tier A'' or ''tier B'' event, which determine the coverage obligations of broadcasters showing them. Events in tier A include ''nationally iconic'' events like the Melbourne Cup and football premierships, while tier B refers to ''regionally iconic and nationally significant'' events like Australian Open non-finals games. To appease regional audiences, particularly outside Read more [...]

Beckhams are putting Beckingham Palace up for sale

Victoria Beckham: To relocated permanently to LA. Pic: Rex Features Victoria and David Beckham have decided to put their Hertfordshire mansion, nicknamed Beckingham Palace, up for sale. The bought the seven-bed Grade 11-listed home for £2.5million back in 1999. However, since then they have spent nearly £18million of renovations and the property now includes indoor and outdoor pools, petting zoo, studio, gym and tennis courts. The golden couple have apparently decided to leave Europe completely Read more [...]

Ismail Refutes KPF Listing Claims

March 24, 2012 17:39 PM Ismail Refutes KPF Listing Claims KUALA SELANGOR, March 24 (Bernama) -- Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has refuted claims by certain quarters that the government would list Koperasi Permodalan Felda (KPF) on Bursa Malaysia. Ismail said the listing only involved Felda Global Ventures Holdings (FGVH), which KPF has an interest in. "Unlike companies, cooperatives cannot be listed (on the bourse)," he told Bernama after Read more [...]

Baldwin-Whitehall House Tour (Four Townhomes)

The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch provides another gallery of some of the residential real estate listings in our area. Houses eligible to be listed are any of those in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. The B-W Patch will do its best to feature houses representing different price levels and representing different real estate agencies. The B-W Patch has no intention of favoring certain listings or companies. Click through the photo gallery located toward the top of this page for this week's listings Read more [...]

TAKE IT HAS MAXIMUM APPEAL

14:30 Tally Ho Stud European Breeders Fund Maiden Aidan O'Brien had three consecutive short-priced winners in 2002-2004 but no favourite has won for seven years. Ballydoyle are represented by the expensive Forester this time and he's an obvious one to keep an eye on but DYLANBARU gets the vote. Tommy Stack has won this twice in recent years and today's representative is bred to be a very speedy juvenile. Jim Bolger won this last year with Whip Rule and his New Approach colt Dawn Approach has plenty Read more [...]

Controversial property now listed for sale

The controversial Newport property in Nanaimo's south end has been listed for sale.The pub, apartments and separate liquor store building have an asking price of $1.5 million.The property has been the subject of much debate after being designated a nuisance by Nanaimo city council last month for an excess of police calls for service on reports of prostitution, sexual assault, drug trafficking and theft. Its owner, Rob Owen, did not return phone calls to the Daily News."There's a lot that could be Read more [...]