Monthly Archives: January 2016

The Ten Most Impressive Homes Listed For Sale in 2015

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Part II of II Only the most impressive homes have made it to our list of the ten most desirable estates listed for sale in 2015. Here are our picks for this year: 4. Bali Hai This idyllic hideaway of Bali Hai is actually located in Queensland, Australia and offers more than breathtaking views to the Daintree Mountains. Looking like the kind of house that only Bond villains would spend their time in, this property boasts 80 acres of natural paradise and privacy. From the stunning Read more [...]

Airbnb rentals could bring residents a pretty penny during Super Bowl 50

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One million people are expected to travel to the San Francisco Bay area for Super Bowl 50, and some residents are hoping to spin their homes into gold. The going price for renting out a luxury house near where the champion football game will be played can exceed the country’s median per capita income of $28,155. The promise of that kind of payday is prompting some homeowners to test the waters of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb for the first time. “If someone wants to pay us a bunch Read more [...]

Denver Broncos fan vows revenge after house listed for sale in Super Bowl prank

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ERIE, Colo. - One man in Erie, Colorado, had his world rocked when he woke up last Friday morning to phone calls from strangers asking about his house being for sale.“I just thought there was a paper with a typo. Then I read the ad and it all came together,” Brian Lusk, of Erie, Colorado, told ABC News of the epic prank that’s gone viral. His buddy, Brian Rauk, is Read more [...]

Broncos Fan Vows Revenge After House Listed for Sale in Super Bowl Prank

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One man in Erie, Colorado, had his world rocked when he woke up last Friday morning to phone calls from strangers asking about his house being for sale. “I just thought there was a paper with a typo. Then I read the ad and it all came together,” Brian Lusk, of Erie, Colorado, told ABC News of the epic prank that’s gone viral. His buddy, Brian Rauk, is a diehard Steelers fan. Lusk, however, is a huge Broncos fan. When the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl, a slightly bitter Rauk decided Read more [...]

Fancy living opposite Hogarth’s Grade-I Listed country pad in Chiswick?

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New homes do have a certain reputation for being identikit, sterile, cramped places to live in, but on the other hand, traditional period homes are dismissed as draughty, stuffy and expensive to maintain. But a new development in Chiswick, currently being marketed by a former Apprentice finalist, is aiming to strike somewhere in the middle with a set of restored apartments opposite a Georgian landmark. The literally-titled Hogarth Views overlooks Hogarth House on Hogarth Read more [...]

Listed building conversion proposed

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A planning application has been made to convert the secondary kitchen at the Palace Hotel on Palace Road in Buxton into nine ensuite bedrooms. The three storey building, which dates from 1868 with some 20th century alterations and additions, is a grade two listed building in the ‘french chateau’ style dressed in millstone grit and decorated by ornate iron ridge railings.The building’s owners, Altrincham’s Britannia Hotels, say the area earmarked for development Read more [...]

St Helens’ Anderson Monument awarded listed status

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One of St Helens best-known sculptures has been awarded Grade II-listed status by Historic England. The Anderson Mining Monument was commissioned in 1964 by the National Coal Board and stands on the linkway roundabout near to the former site of the Ravenhead colliery.It has been given the pretigious status in recognition of its aesthetic quality and the materials it is comprised it. For the sculpture an actual industrial component was used, Read more [...]

New York Stock Exchange Outlines Priorities to Strengthen Equity Market Structure During Extreme Volatility

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange’s (NYSE:ICE) global network of exchanges, today outlined actions it will prioritize to enhance U.S. equity market structure and strengthen the markets during times of extreme volatility. The NYSE continually seeks opportunities to improve market structure, and following global market volatility during the second half of 2015, evaluated Read more [...]