Roh's property this week was the huge white duplex at 1627-1629 Beach Street in the Marina. Roh co-lists the property with its owner, who is also one of his colleagues. She explains that she is too emotionally attached to the home to have the listing by herself. They list it for $4.6 million on the show, which is a mere rounding error from its real-life price of $4.595 million, although it was at one point listed for $5.3 million. Roh worries that the home is dated but manages to draw a big Read more [...]

A fundraising campaign to get Capel Aberfan back up and running is set to launch later this month after an official committee is formed tomorrow (Fri). The committee will be made up of an architect, building surveyor, plasterer, accountant, the chapel owner and representatives from the village in Merthyr Tydfil, among others, will form a board for the Capel Aberfan Fire Rebuild Fund. The building was gutted after a fire ripped through the listed building in the early hours of Saturday, July 11. Read more [...]

Wates Living Space has unveiled proposals to transform the old Guest Hospital site off Tipton Road.The developer wants to keep some of the hospital buildings for apartments, but demolish the rest for a housing estate.An artist's impression of the plans above existing housing along Birmingham New RoadAn artist's impression of the plansOnly the administration building and porter's lodge are to be retained and converted to residential use as part of the scheme.A total of 157 homes are to Read more [...]

Planning councillors have approved the first phase of a “well-considered proposal” for the residential redevelopment of a former Angus open prison. Noranside, north of Forfar, was closed in 2011, with the transfer of inmates to Castle Huntly open prison on the outskirts of Dundee.The one-time sanatorium, with the B-listed Noranside House at its heart, was then put on the market with an £850,000 price tag.Plans emerged last year for a development Read more [...]

Comments (0) THE second phase of the multi-million-pound, high-class waterside development at Mount Wise is due to be completed next month – and residents are already moving in.Developer Mount Wise (Devon) Ltd has spent two years building flats and houses either side of the Grade II-listed Admiralty House, once the home of the Royal Navy's top brass.Constructors Mi-space, the housing division of Midas, are mopping up ground work at the site, at one time the Read more [...]

As beauty contests go, the battle between global heritage sites is fickle and fierce. For every Frick House in Manhattan, say, or Carss Cottage Museum in Sydney, there are faded former homes languishing unloved in forgotten corners of our cities. Too often the fate of important buildings is left to the vagaries of a rich person’s whim and the capricious decisions of local authorities. Compare the indulgent treatment of the Royal Pavilion Estate in Brighton with the cruel attitude toward its neighbour Read more [...]

A GRADE II-listed building which has been semi-derelict for 50 years could be restored to its former glory and turned into a house. A plan to turn the Old Hall, near Back Lane in Egglescliffe, near Stockton, into a home along with two nearby farm buildings has been submitted to Stockton Borough Council's planning department. There have been objections from 29 villagers worried about overdevelopment, traffic and conservation issues, however, another 11 Egglescliffe people Read more [...]

• UK city guide: The 11 best places to live to suit you and your family • Best of both worlds: Live in a French chateau yet work in London Bond Street came out as the least popular, with demand at just 13pc. The top nine most in-demand stations were all in north-west London. East London also proved popular, with most of the “biggest climbers” - the stations with the largest increases in demand - situated on the right of the tube map. East Ham, in zone three, saw a 26pc rise in demand Read more [...]

Updated August 04, 2015 14:37:50 Photo: Every capital city market except Hobart saw an increase in listings in July compared with June. (AAP: Lukas Coch) An unseasonal, sharp rise in property listings in July may be an early sign the real estate boom centred on Sydney and Melbourne is nearing its peak.SQM Research figures show Read more [...]

The Lindridge-Martin Manor Historic District in Atlanta was listed last month in the National Register of Historic Places.The district includes four contiguous, historically related subdivisions located southeast of Interstate 85, west of Cheshire Bridge Road, and extends to streets on both the north and south sides of Lindbergh Drive.The Lindridge-Martin Manor neighborhood was developed in response to rapid population growth north of Atlanta in the years following World War II. The area had been Read more [...]