Monthly Archives: June 2013

Appeal for volunteers to help keep Grade II-listed church open

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A charity is appealing for volunteers to help keep a Grade II-listed Norman church in Northampton open to the public. St Peter’s Church, in Marefair, was made redundant in the late nineties and came into the care of The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) in 1998.The building is currently opened by volunteers three days a week, but more are needed to help keep it open in the longer term. The charity is also appealing for volunteers to help tidy up the building, at a Read more [...]

Sales, prices, listings down. What’s up with Toronto’s high-end homes?

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A $4-million house perched on the edge of a ravine in the desirable South Hill area of Toronto recently found new owners after a full year on the market.The buyers first toured the house in the spring of 2012, then kept looking. They came back 12 months later because they couldn’t find anything else that compared to the location, says real estate agent Jimmy Molloy of Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd. More Related to this Story How to fight a bidding war: Know your limits Buyer bids $173,000 Read more [...]

Dyandra Builds Joint Venture with International Event Organizers

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Directors of Dyandra Media International listen to Uriep Budi Prasetyo, trade director of the Indonesia Stock Exchange, after the company’s first IPO listing on March 26, 2013. (GA Photo/ M Defrizal) Dyandra Media International, the exhibition and events arm of Kompas Gramedia Group, will build a joint-venture enterprise with event organizers London-listed Tarsus Group and Malaysia’s UBMG Holdings as part of their expansion plans, a director said on Friday. “We will Read more [...]

Restoring listed properties: how to avoid a period drama

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“We offered slightly over the asking price, to ensure we got it. I have to confess, though, that we were innocents abroad. We knew it needed some restoring, but had no idea how much it would cost.” Probably just as well. As well as its original Great Hall, with medieval hammerbeam roof, Whitestaunton has Jacobean plasterwork and Elizabethan coffered ceilings. “It needed a new roof, new plumbing and drainage,” explains Stuart. “And that was just the start. All the windows Read more [...]

Formerly part of Balmoral Reservoir, converted Brisbane water tank house listed

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A one-of-a-kind family home in Balmoral, Queensland is for sale. Gail Babbage has listed her circular four-bedroom home with three bathrooms. It used to be a water tank - part of the Balmoral Reservoir. Its conversion into the unique property in the 1990s was undertaken by the architects Conrad Gargett Riddell. The house has concrete walls, and features three levels with a hollow centre. The entrance is on the ground level via a normal door. A garage and play areas are also on the ground floor. Read more [...]

Two St . Albert high schools listed for sale on Kijiji and Craigslist

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EDMONTON - Two St. Albert high schools have been listed “for sale by principal� on Kijiji and Craigslist in an apparent graduation prank.No offers for Paul Kane High School have come in since the phoney ads went up a week ago offering to sell the St. Albert school plus all students and staff — minus the custodians and cafeteria workers — for $1.2 million.“I think we’re undervalued in the ad,� principal Duncan Knoll said with a laugh Thursday.“And Read more [...]

Joker lists two St. Albert high schools for sale on Kijiji and Craigslist

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EDMONTON - Two St. Albert high schools have been listed “for sale by principal� on Kijiji and Craigslist in an apparent graduation prank.No offers for Paul Kane High School have come in since the phoney ads went up a week ago offering to sell the St. Albert school plus all students and staff — minus the custodians and cafeteria workers — for $1.2 million.“I think we’re undervalued in the ad,� principal Duncan Knoll said with a laugh Thursday.“And Read more [...]

Two St. Albert high schools listed for sale on Kijiji and Craigslist

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EDMONTON - Two St. Albert high schools have been listed “for sale by principal� on Kijiji and Craigslist in an apparent graduation prank. No offers have come yet in for Paul Kane High School, at 12 Cunningham Rd., since the phoney ads went up a week ago selling the St. Albert school plus all students and staff — minus the custodians and cafeteria workers — for $1.2 million. “I think we’re undervalued in the ad,� principal Duncan Knoll said with a laugh Read more [...]

RG3’s House: Redskins Quarterback Was Apparently Forced Out of Old …

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Turns out Redskins superstar quarterback Robert Griffin III is just like you and me. At least when it comes to why he moved into his new Northern Virginia home. Turns out RG3 was forced out of his old rented Leesburg, Virginia, home because its owner, Microstrategy Inc. President Paul Zolfaghari, wanted to sell, according to WTOP. Some of your friends, if not you yourself, have probably been stuck in the same situation. But Read more [...]