Condos are being built across Marquette. And real estate professionals say that investing in a condo may not be such a bad idea. Compared to homeownership, the market values are similar.
According to Northern Michigan Land Brokers, condo sales have gone from a few hundred-thousand dollars, a couple of years ago, to [...]
Big Bear Lake Planning Commission holds a special workshop meeting Wednesday, June 27, to discuss a condo project.
Unique Mountain Development wants to build an 82-unit condo project on Paine Road south of the Village. Planning Commissioners denied the project early on voicing several concerns. Developers agreed to make some revisions and the workshop is a [...]
Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]
If you live in a rent stabilized apartment in New York City, get ready to pay more for your pad.
As usual, tempers flared over the Rent Guidelines Board’s decision which impacts more than a million people.
Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang has the story.
Maxine Zeifman is not like her Upper East Side neighbors. She does not [...]
For most Americans, moving out of Mom and Dad’s house means moving into a rental unit of their own. Not only is an apartment the home of choice for young adults leaving the nest, statistics show an increasing number of Americans are opting to rent as a permanent housing arrangement.
In 2004, more than 36 million [...]
The Rent Guidelines Board is taking precautions to keep Tuesday’s vote on rent increases from becoming as disorderly as last year’s, when tenant representatives showed up armed with drums, whistles, air horns and profanity-laden signs.
Last year’s chaos forced the delay of a decision for two and a half hours and objections were later raised that [...]
The grungy hotel room was reeking of smoke. The bathtub was rusty. The bedspread and furnishings were dingy relics. But I couldn’t leave. I’d already paid $155 in an online travel auction for the Queen Mary Hotel room — $91 for the room, $20 commission, $24 in taxes and $20 to upgrade to a room [...]
O’ LAKES - Paradise Lakes, the clothing-optional resort off U.S. 41, has held nude road races, screened “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and hosted a strip poker tournament to attract new members.
Now, the nation’s largest nudist resort by membership is offering its members luxurious incentives to draw more people. The resort hopes to gain 1,000 [...]
Vermonters involved in the travel industry say they’re relieved that the federal government has eased some of the regulations requiring use of passports, at least for now.
The temporary relief came as waiting times for passports grew longer and longer and many Vermonters connected to the travel industry were reaching their breaking point.
The changes allow travelers [...]
BRIGHTON, England - With strategically placed helmets and slogans painted on bare skin, scores of people shed their clothes and rode through this seaside resort on their bicycles Saturday to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport.
“It is time more motorists stripped off their armor plating and moved around more gently on this [...]
The world’s busiest airport is about to get a lot busier.
Officials at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport estimate that about 370,000 passengers per day will pass through the facility in the next week or so as the summer travel season kicks into high gear. About 250,000 passengers a day use Hartsfield-Jackson on an average day.
“There are [...]
Cleanup crews began assembling Friday at a northern Wisconsin resort to try to salvage any remnants of the business demolished by one of at least five tornadoes that swept across the state.
The tornadoes touched down mainly across central and northeast Wisconsin overnight Thursday.
The National Weather Service believes at least one tornado touched down for an [...]