Monthly Archives: August 2012

Rare chance to capture a listed home

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This impressive eight-bedroom home in St Thomas Street, Wells, Somerset, is on the market with agents Jeanes Holland Burnell, with an asking price of £1,300,000. The agents say it is a "truly unique Grade II-listed house set in the shadow of St Thomas Church with flexible and spacious accommodation". The property currently provides excellent "live/work" facilities but could be divided and adapted to provide a substantial annexe. Properties of this nature are rarely available, say the Read more [...]

The Last Guardian canned? Trademark listed as ‘ABANDONED’

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You are here: Home » News » The Last Guardian » The Last Guardian canned? Tradem... Posted August 9th, 2012 at 15:46 EDT by Benjamin Shillabeer-Hall 10 Comments The Last Guardian was announced in 2009 as the third title by legendary developer Team Ico. In the months and years since, the title has had a couple of private showings, but recent events have left us totally in the dark. It's been troubled times for Team Ico; lead designer Fumito Read more [...]

Beachfront, With Cessna Parking

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Paul Brennan, the Prudential Douglas Elliman broker who has the listing, says the property is zoned residential and could be divided into six single-family lots. Or a deep-pocketed buyer could snatch up the entire airport and have a personal landing strip steps from the beach, along with views of Block Island Sound. Alas, he’d have to ditch the Gulfstream IV for a single- or twin-engine Cessna. “It’s not a huge runway,” Mr. Brennan said of the airport, which doesn’t have a control Read more [...]

Dominic Wainford built the playground for his children three years ago and …

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Dominic Wainford built the playground for his children three years ago and says he was never told he needed planning approvalPlanning officials say the £40,000 structure is 'bulky and visually unsympathetic' and must be shifted By Emily Allen PUBLISHED: 16:02 GMT, 9 August 2012 | UPDATED: 16:02 GMT, 9 August 2012 A multi-millionaire who spent £40,000 on a 'Tarzan' climbing frame for his children in the grounds of his country mansion has been ordered to move it - and says the Read more [...]

What I Did Last Weekend

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“We’re out dreaming today,” Kevin Schultz, 33, said recently after looking at a house listed at $1.68 million on 13th Street in Park Slope. “But we’re not buying anything yet. And we’re not really going to buy that one, either.” Mr. Schultz had attended an open house, one of the more bizarre rituals in real estate, whereby otherwise privacy-obsessed New Yorkers invite complete strangers into their homes to inspect their fixtures and moldings, their bedrooms and bathrooms, Read more [...]

Olympic Track & Field Livestream: Watch Usain Bolt Run For Gold Online

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Six days of track and field are already in the books at the 2012 London Olympics, but that doesn't mean day seven is going to be less than sublime. Five gold medals are scheduled to be handed out on Thursday afternoon in a variety of events. The televised NBC schedule is listed here, but we also have the online schedule for those interested in livestreaming Thursday afternoon's events -- ranging from everything from the decathlon events to the women's javelin throw. The following Read more [...]

BLOG: Just Listed: U.S. Home Prices Post Biggest Gain in Several Years

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(Source: Jim Buchta Star Tribune, Minneapolis (MCT) — There’s more evidence that the housing market is in the midst of a slow, but sustained recovery. New data shows that prices in the Twin Cities and across the country are being lifted by strong sales and fewer foreclosures. Data from CoreLogic, which tracks repeat sales of the same properties,  During the second quarter home prices across the country prices were up 2.5 percent from a year ago and 6 percent from the previous Read more [...]

Dib reaching for Cliffs summit

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(UKPA) – 1 hour ago  Mick Halford is looking forward to seeing Dibayani test the water at Listed level in the Coolmore Canford Cliffs Stakes at Tipperary on Friday.Following a most encouraging run behind The United States on his racecourse bow, Dibayani returned to the Curragh a long odds-on favourite for his next start.While he was not as impressive as some might have expected, just getting the better of rank outsider Orgligo Bay, Halford was happy to see his charge get the job done in very Read more [...]

Country houses for sale in Staffordshire

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Often overlooked, the country properties to be found in Staffrordshire are amongst some of the loveliest The industrialists who made their fortunes in the coalmines, steel mills and potteries of Staffordshire built some splendid country houses in glorious landscapes surprisingly little known outside the county. Between 1807 and 1810, William Sneyd, scion of one of Staffordshire's oldest landed families, whose wealth derived from coal, iron and the manufacture of bricks and tiles, commissioned Read more [...]