Monthly Archives: April 2012

Home sales mixed for Fort Smith metro

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Beautiful spring weather and record low interest rates haven’t proven a huge boost to home sales in the Fort Smith metro area during the first quarter of 2012. Home sales in Crawford and Sebastian counties were mixed in March. Agents sold a combined 137 homes last month in the two-county area, down about 9.3% from the prior year, according to MountData.com, an independent marketing report. Crawford County posted higher sales but declining prices, while Sebastian County showed more sales with Read more [...]

Dual listed shares buoy NZX

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JASON KRUPP New Zealand shares held on to their gains in early trade, the bourse buoyed by dual-listed shares with Australia's stock market opening in the black despite weaker international leads. Heartland New Zealand led gainers, and Ryman Healthcare fell. The NZX 50 Index rose 3.82 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 3477.32. The New Zealand dollar recently traded at US81.86 cents, down from US82.06c at 8am, but unchanged versus 5pm yesterday. Read more [...]

NS review finds many deficiencies at Talbot House

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The Nova Scotia government would look at funding a Cape Breton addictions recovery centre again if its board, executive director and program shape up, says the Community Services minister. The department released a review of Talbot House, located in Frenchvale, on Monday, and it contains a list of shortcomings. They included a lack of financial planning, no regular board supervision of the executive director, no job descriptions for staff positions, and no clear criteria for admitting Read more [...]

ScoreBig on tickets to sporting events and shows

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Do you like to go to sporting events and shows? Most people like to get out to the ballpark or a concert every once in a while, but often rising ticket prices, service fees, and extra hassle keep people from buying tickets. Every day you'll receive a handful of deals for shows and events on that day. (Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET) ScoreBig Daily (Free) is an app for iPhone that works with the ScoreBig.com Web site to get you good seats for events for much less than the original ticket Read more [...]

Perth’s Iwan Iwanov-designed Brutalist Marsala House listed for sale

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Marsala House, the fabulous Brutalist Iwan Iwanov-designed Perth house that is the youngest property to be enshrined on West Australian heritage list, has been listed for sale. Owners Mark Etherton and Christopher Beer bought the then deteriorating house in 2005 for $725,000 and embarked on a massive restoration project. The result quickly re-established Marsala House as one of Iwanov’s most idiosyncratic explorations of Australia’s late 20th-century Brutalist style, a movement that includes Read more [...]

¿Heritage Tax¿ on listed buildings expected to hit Grade One and Two listed …

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By Jason Groves PUBLISHED: 06:53 GMT, 16 April 2012 | UPDATED: 15:16 GMT, 16 April 2012 George Osborne’s plan to impose a ‘Heritage Tax’ on listed buildings would rake in almost half a billion pounds – with nearly a quarter coming from the Church of England.Figures buried in Treasury documents reveal the full implications of the Chancellor’s move to ‘simplify’ the VAT treatment of alterations to listed buildings.Grade One and Grade Two listed buildings currently incur Read more [...]

Living like a lord, without all the upkeep

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By Duncan Farmer PUBLISHED: 14:49 GMT, 16 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:49 GMT, 16 April 2012 When Stephanie and Neil Carney first set foot in the converted coach house at Balls Park, a 17th Century stately home near Hertford, they were impressed by the grandeur of the building, its 63 acres of landscaped grounds and the scale of the new apartment.Within a fortnight they had moved in, following a trend among househunters who crave the history and space of country-house conversions, a Read more [...]

George Osborne puts the fabric of Britain at risk with the ‘heritage tax’

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But the VAT increase should not be seen solely in the context of heritage buildings. While it might satisfy the Treasury’s (and the EU’s) desire to harmonise a fiendishly complex regime, it is economically barmy. What they should be doing is lowering VAT for the labour element of all repairs to stimulate the building trade. At the moment, the construction of new buildings is charged at a zero rate of VAT, provided they are for a “social purpose” – mainly homes. But most Read more [...]

A listed WWI hangar in Wiltshire is to be demolished

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16 April 2012 Last updated at 10:53 GMT The hangar is one of three at RAF Yatesbury on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk List An "exceptionally rare" WWI hangar at a former RAF base in Wiltshire has been approved for demolition by the council. The grade II* listed building at RAF Yatesbury was due to be restored as part of a £3m scheme in 2008. Development was stopped Read more [...]