Terrace sale may herald market rise

The sale of an unassuming three bed terraced house in the heart of Newport may well provide a solid indication of a welcome upsurge in house prices in the up and coming city. The mid terrace property, at St Edward Street, which auctioneer Paul Fosh said required modernisation, sold for almost there times its guide price at the recent sale. Listed with a guide of £26,000, the property created keen interest from potential buyers, with the hammer eventually falling after some stiff competition Read more [...]

A house for $50 a week

A free-standing, three-bedroom house for less than $50,000. It might sound a fantasy to Auckland first-home buyers but a trawl through real estate listings reveals that if buyers broaden their search to areas in the central North Island, they can find cheap properties, with big sections and mortgage repayments of only about $100 a fortnight. One of the cheap property hot-spots Read more [...]

Colin Firth’s dream to stick large solar panel on his listed home has been …

By Helen Collis PUBLISHED: 15:24 GMT, 2 June 2012 | UPDATED: 17:09 GMT, 2 June 2012 Film-star Colin Firth and his wife Livia have been blocked by red tape in their bid to make their listed family home more environmentally friendly.The actor and his wife, who live in a Grade II listed Victorian estate in Chiswick, west London, have been thwarted in their attempt to install a large solar panel because it was too large.Officials said the harm to the historic setting of their Bedford Read more [...]

House Hunt: Open Houses And Just Listed Homes With Pools

This week, House Hunt features newly listed properties with swimming pools. Featured homes range in price from $99,900 for a beautiful three-bedroom home on Rolling Rock Court in Lithia Springs to a lovely, traditional six-bedroom home on Forest Hill Drive in Douglasville for $189,000. Click on a picture in the photo gallery to see a listing description. Click on an address listed below and get directly linked to AOL Real Estate or the broker for the complete listing information. You'll find helpful Read more [...]

Large Edgemont Village townhouse sells for over $1 million

107 - 3750 Edgemont Blvd., North VancouverType: 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom townhouseSize: 1,903 sq. ftB.C. Assessment, 2012: $837,000Listed for: $1,059,000Sold for: $1,040,000Sold on: April 30Days on market: 42Listing agent: Bernadette Dunnigan at RE/MAX Crest RealtyBuyers agent: Michael Watson at RE/MAX Crest RealtyThe big sell: One of the obvious attractions of the two-level townhouse in North Vancouver's Manor at Edgemont complex is the 800-square-foot wrap-around terrace, which envelops such a large Read more [...]

House Hunt: Open Houses And Just-Listed Homes With Pools For Summer Fun

This week House Hunt offers Open Houses and newly listed properties with swimming pools-just in time for summer fun. Featured homes range in price from $185,000 for a lovely three bedroom Victorian-style home on Plantation Trace in Woodstock to a five-bedroom Craftsman-style home on East Hampton Place in Holly Springs for $249,000. Click on a picture in the photo gallery to see a listing description. Click on an address listed below and get directly linked to AOL Real Estate or the broker for the Read more [...]

A prayer by right royal assent

AS WE enter the national celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, churches are once again gearing up to join in and help facilitate events and celebrations around the city. Some of them are listed under the Events section below. The Queen has a central role in the religious life of the nation, as the monarch always has since Henry VIII was made 'Defender of the Faith'. ​ The 'Grace' that can be used wherever food Read more [...]

BP plans shock sale of TNK-BP stake

The relationship has sunk to a new low in recent months as legal wrangling dragged on over BP’s failed attempt to bypass TNK-BP and sign an Arctic exploration deal with Rosneft last year. Mikhail Fridman (below), one of the oligarchs, resigned as TNK-BP’s chief executive on Monday and said that both partners agreed the venture could not continue in its current form. Yesterday, BP said it had “received unsolicited indications of interest regarding the potential acquisition Read more [...]