Monthly Archives: October 2013

Housing Market Warning: Home Fraudulently Listed for Sale

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A Midland homeowner contacted Big 2 News after the house she was selling appeared in fraudulent ads on multiple websites saying it was for rent.  Owner Debby Sifuentes put her mother’s former home on the market last week. Shortly after being listed for sale, the home also appeared on craigslist and trulia.com for rent – ads Debby had nothing to do with.  “I think within a 24 hour period of time is when the site went up, because the pictures that were up on the site didn’t have the realtor’s Read more [...]

Meridian listed, more sales to come

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The Government is considering further asset sales than those already announced, though it says there is likely to be little left worth selling. Meridian Energy made its debut on the NZX yesterday at $1.08, 8c above the initial price of $1 paid by investors who snapped up shares in the country's largest electricity company. With Air New Zealand and Genesis floats already announced, the Government was still considering further asset Read more [...]

Business opportunities abound in New Tecumseth

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Click here and submit local news tips. Posted October29, 2013Over a dozen turn-key commercial enterprises are for sale in Alliston,Beeton and Tottenham - and those are just the ones listed via the MLSweb site.Want to own and operate a convenience store? For $10,000 Tottenham Milkand Variety Store at 1 Queen Street, or go down the road and take overthe 49er at a selling list price of $125,000. Or, if the completepackage - convenience store, yogurt ice cream franchise, and sixapartment units on top Read more [...]

Council sells home for £2.96m

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The house billed as the most expensive council home in Britain has been sold for £2.96 million in an "extremely competitive" auction which lasted a matter of minutes. The 200-year-old building, which is close to Borough Market in South London, had been valued by Southwark Council at £2.3 million before going under the hammer. The Grade II-listed property, which includes two large family homes, was auctioned by Savills to raise money for social housing in the area. The auctioneers said bidding Read more [...]

Social housing flats plan for newly-listed Huddersfield town centre building

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Plans to turn a historic Huddersfield building into apartments have been unveiled – two weeks after it was granted listed building status.Kirklees Council is seeking residential use for Waverley Chambers at Kirkgate.The building, once office space, is now surplus to requirements and the council has applied for a change of use consent to create six flats on the upper levels for social housing.The building’s three shops at street level will remain.Its listed building status was confirmed last Read more [...]

Sydney lawyer buys $710000 home for five-year-old son

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Over the past weekend, Sydney and Melbourne witnessed very strong property sales, increasing expectations for the remainder of the year, which has already seen “unprecedented” figures.According to Australian Property Monitors, the weekend clearance rate in Melbourne was a whopping 76.9 per cent, with 1,362 properties listed, and 922 auctioned - of which 714 sold.Total sales reached $438.8 million and median prices for auctioned houses was $809,250 and units $506,750. In Sydney, the clearance Read more [...]