Long before anyone worried about drones crashing through the front window, winemaker Paul Masson built a chateau in the hills above Saratoga. Now it’s for sale. You can have it for $7 million — not bad in the Silicon Valley real estate market, where paying upwards of $5 million for ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
WITH complaints from flat buyers against unfair practices by real estate firms piling up from across the state, a proposal to appoint multiple housing regulators is now under consideration, sources said. At last count, about 37,000 such cases were pending in the consumer redressal forum, official data shows. Mumbai, the ... Read More »
Brigade Group has announced the launch of its latest initiative – Brigade Real Estate Accelerator Program (REAP). A brainchild of Nirupa Shankar, Director, Brigade Hospitality, it is an organised approach to help build sustainable and scalable businesses in sectors relevant to real estate. According to a release from the Brigade ... Read More »
The Arab uprising in 2010 and subsequent wars in the eastern Mediterranean region have had serious detrimental effects on the health and life expectancy of the people living in many of the 22 countries in the region, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study ... Read More »
We hear so frequently about the players behind Manhattan’s billion-dollar real estate projects and how foreign investors are pouring a global vault’s worth of currency into New York City property, often shielded by LLCs. It’s illuminating to get a closer look at the city’s larger real estate landscape–one that has changed ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
Seismologists in Japan have tracked, for the first time, a particular type of tiny vibration that wobbled through the Earth from the Atlantic seafloor. It was started by a “weather bomb”: the same low-pressure storm, off Greenland, which made UK headlines in late 2014. Tiny tremors, of two types, constantly ... Read More »
A shortage of existing homes for sale is boosting the market for newly-built homes, and fueling confidence among builders right along with it. A monthly reading of builder sentiment rose two points to 60 in August; anything above 50 is considered positive on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo ... Read More »
Education Minister Hekia Parata has brought a bill to parliament which she says sets clear school objectives for the first time. The Education (Update) Amendment Bill provides for a National Education and Learning Priorities statement (NELP). Source: ONE News “For the first time, early childhood education providers, schools and kura ... Read More »
Blending art, architecture and design, mosaic tile is one of the oldest forms of wall and floor covering. Using the tiny squares known as tesserae, Ancient Greeks and Romans created detailed stories and intricate geometric patterns, and mosaic art embellishes ceilings, walls and floors from Byzantium to Barcelona. Today, artists ... Read More »
I admit, I am totally lost when it comes to home decor. For years, we’ve lived in apartments where our ability to decorate was limited to strict leases and landlord preferences to no holes in the walls. So now that we’re in the process of purchasing our first home, I’m ... Read More »
