First homes in £60 million Somerset Place development in Bath are sold

The first homes emerging from a £60 million restoration scheme in Bath have been sold. Developers are transforming a series of five-storey, grade 1 listed houses at Somerset Place after Bath Spa University sold what had been student accommodation three years ago. ​ Somerset Place The first three townhouses were sold in what is called a shell and core finish state - with some decoration work Read more [...]

Easier Said Than Done: Treasurers offered at Bisbee Royale

Printer-friendly versionSend to friendWe can give of our time or give of our money and for an upcoming event, there are some of us giving from our collections — works of art, pieces of jewelry or something unique we hope will have value for another. It’s all for the first ever ‘Collector’s Collections’ fundraising event to benefit the Muheim Heritage House and Bisbee Mining Historical Museums on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at the Bisbee Royale. It takes place at the all new Read more [...]

Curraghbeena House, the Mosman harbourfront mansion with Chinese oriental …

Curraghbeena House, the 1905 Mosman harbourfront home of the Alliance Aviation Services chairman Steve Padgett and his wife, Lorraine has been listed with $7 million-plus hopes at its May 30 auction through Kingsley Yates of Ray White Lower North Shore. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom house is set at the tip of Curraghbeena Point, between Mosman Bay and Little Sirius Cove with landscaped terraced gardens and a staircase leading down to a sandstone-wall harbourside pool. Title Read more [...]

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. Announces Transfer of Listing to The …

MIAMI, April 11, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (the "Company" or "SBS") (Nasdaq:SBSA) received approval from The Nasdaq Stock Market ("NASDAQ") to transfer the listing of the Company's common stock from The NASDAQ Global Market to The NASDAQ Capital Market. The NASDAQ Capital Market is one of the three markets for NASDAQ-listed stocks and operates similarly to The NASDAQ Global Market. Companies listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market must meet certain financial requirements Read more [...]

Heritage House ownership shrouded in secrecy

The new owner of the Heritage House remains as much of a mystery as the future of the iconic Little River blufftop inn. Heritage House was a jewel of the coast for 40 years, run by the beloved Dennen family, then by other owners who were also locally well-known, if sometimes controversial. In the mid-2000s, Heritage House fell to some of the worst excesses of the financial crisis. A German bank pumped $30 million into a commercial property that local experts say could never generate the income Read more [...]

Dynamic, deeply controversial

  - So the old heap of iron has rusted and finally snuffed it. Baroness Margaret Thatcher, 87, was would you believe living at The Ritz when she suffered a stroke Monday. Shockingly, plans are in hand by the British Establishment to give her a ceremonial sendoff. What on earth are they thinking? Her ceremonial sendoff will rank equally to the pomp and Read more [...]