Monthly Archives: April 2014

Is spring the time to list a home?

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WASHINGTON —  It's common knowledge verging on holy writ in real estate: Spring is the absolute best time of the year to sell a house. Right? But is there hard statistical evidence that listing your house in April, May or June — flowers blooming, birds chirping, lawns greened up after a tough winter — actually nets you a higher price or a shorter time from listing to sale? Yes, but it's not as clear-cut as you might imagine. There are important nuances in the data. Reviews of Read more [...]

Should modern buildings be listed debated in Preston

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Join a debate on modern architecture and a guided walk around Preston Bus Station. The Royal Town Planning Institute North West are holding special Centenary Debates to celebrate planning. They are bringing together respected planning experts to debate the hottest topics of the profession. Their next debate in Preston on 1 May is on the future of heritage and looks at ‘should modern buildings be listed’. At County Hall in Preston an informed panel will debate the issue leaving you to Read more [...]

Coming Events are listed

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WEDNESDAY, April 23 The “Butterfly Guy Rick Mikula” will present a children’s program at 4 p.m. at the Montville Township Public Library, 90 Horseneck Road, Montville. Call 402-0900, extension 227 to register or for more information. The adult program on butterflies will be offered at 7 p.m. Registration is recommended. “Backyard Birds” will be the topic at 7 p.m. at the Denville Public Library, located at 121 Diamond Spring Road, Read more [...]

Livingston church is given Listed Building status

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A West Lothian church has become the latest building in the county to be granted listed status. St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Craigshill, Livingston, was officially designated a category B listed building last month. There are now 36 listed buildings in Livingston, with the only other church building being Livingston Old Parish Kirk in Livingston Village. A category B listing defines “buildings of regional or more than local importance, or major examples of some particular period, style Read more [...]

None of Liverpool’s Grade 1 listed sites ‘at risk’ say English Heritage

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They are part of what makes our city so unique and thankfully it looks like Liverpool’s most iconic landmarks will be around for generations to come.None of Merseyside’s Grade 1 listed sites are considered ‘at risk’ by English Heritage, who monitor the condition of he country’s most historic locations.In contrast, Newcastle has 13 Grade 1 listed buildings at risk, Manchester has six and Huddersfield has four.English Heritage’s ‘Heritage At Risk’ programme lists historic sites that Read more [...]

Sellers’ market has few homes – Merced Sun

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Home sales in the Sacramento region were stuck in an odd rut in March, traditionally the start of the spring homebuying season. Even though prices rebounded to healthy levels not seen since before last decade’s housing boom and bust, the supply of homes on the market remained anemic.Inventory, measured in the time it would take for all the homes listed to sell, dropped from 2 months in February to about 1.5 months in March, several data sources Read more [...]

Meth tests for state houses

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Housing New Zealand is testing 19 of its Wanganui properties for traces of methamphetamine after the drug was detected in three of the homes it has for sale. It comes after a woman commissioned her own testing of a Wanganui state house she was preparing to buy under the Government’s FirstHome programme to get rid of surplus homes. Concerned about the fact that sections of the house’s carpet had been ripped up, the woman spent Read more [...]