After two months of significant growth, home sales in Miami fell by 9.2% in November but prices are still rising, but at a slower pace than before.Miami has been one area in the United States that has been leading the real estate recovery but some properties are now seeing demand fall, according to data from the Miami Association of Realtors.While sales of single family homes decreased a negligible 1% compared to a year ago, condo sales were down 15.5% while combined sales were down 9.2%.‘We Read more [...]

Dec. 29 Roman Record Posted: Sunday, December 28, 2014 12:00 pm Read more [...]

Dec. 29 Roman Record Posted: Sunday, December 28, 2014 12:00 pm Read more [...]

"Selling your unwanted gifts can be a good way of avoiding the embarrassment of asking for a receipt.” The company estimates that 2.7m people will list unwanted gifts in the next few weeks and said that last year the average price of unwanted gifts put up for sale was £28.27. According to eBay, the top 10 items listed for sale during Christmas Day were: 1 Perfume 2 Tablets 3 Smartphones 4 Frozen Merchandise 5 Soaps and Lotions 6 Women’s necklaces 7 Women’s Read more [...]

You wake up on Christmas morning, rush down to open your presents and... Oh! What's this? Do these people even know you?Here are a few unwanted items that have been listed for sale online this Christmas."This was bought with them knowing I already have one." By 1pm on Christmas day, one entrepreneurial Gumtree user had already listed his Xbox controller.You're not having those bits we got to carve the turkey. The festivities are drawing to a close and everyone's full, having enjoyed a well-carved Read more [...]

After Christmas sales are here and retailers are ready for one of the busiest days of the year. Gift card recipients and savvy shoppers will be out taking advantage of huge discounts on December 26, with those deals continuing on into Saturday, December 27. After Christmas store hours were released by AL.com. The list contains national chain stores with opening hours for Friday. Academy Sports and Outdoors will open at 7 a.m. Bass Pro Shops is open from 8 a.m.to 10 p.m. Best Buy’s hours are from Read more [...]

Had a good Christmas? Get lots of things you like? Good. Get lots of things you don’t like and want to sell for money? Even better! Any keen tech enthusiast should instinctively sort his presents into two piles on Christmas morning -- one of things to keep, plus one of things to keep sealed in their boxes to sell immediately. That way, you get a second Christmas a few days or weeks later when the money rolls in. It could be the difference between running out of liquid capital on January Read more [...]

24 December 2014 Last updated at 10:17 The transformation of Gloucester Prison will be a "daunting task", experts say The sale of four former prison sites has been agreed, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed. The sites at of Shepton Mallet, Gloucester, Portsmouth and Dorchester will be sold to City and Country. The MoJ said the firm was working on "mixed used schemes", with assisted Read more [...]

South Florida home sales sputtered in November.Sales of existing condos in Miami-Dade County plunged 15.5 percent in November from a year earlier to 1,077 units, according to the Miami Association of Realtors. Single-family home sales dipped 1 percent year over year to 972 units in November.Miami-Dade existing condo sales in November were down 28.6 percent from October, which tallied 1,508 closings, and single-family home sales were off 19.3 percent from the prior month, when 1,204 sales were completed, Read more [...]

#RIPSnowman (Picture: jth073/eBay)Now this is the gift that keeps on giving… Some genius has listed a melted snowman for sale on eBay. You read right. (Presumably s/he ran out of striped paint and elbow grease to flog.) The ex-frosted fella is up for sale with the title ‘Snowman, last year’s’ – and a picture of a glass bowl, a carrot (nose), two blueberries (eyes) and some water (body and soul). Bidding started at £0.99 (£2.80 pp) but, CHRISTMAS IS RUINED, we’ve missed the deadline! Perhaps Read more [...]