Posts Tagged ‘Christine’

French housing official ordered to resign after scandal over low-rent apartment

Monday, December 24th, 2007

A senior French public housing official was ordered to step down Thursday after a newspaper revealed that he was renting a Left Bank apartment provided by Paris City Hall at a quarter of the market rate.
Jean-Paul Bolufer resigned at the urging of Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Housing Minister Christine Boutin.
Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical [...]

City seeks calm rent hike meeting

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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 [...]

Historic status of Stranahan House and condo site could come Tuesday

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Are the Stranahan House and the land next door to it historic?
City commissioners will be asked to vote Tuesday night on that issue. It’s more complicated than it sounds, though.
The home of city pioneers Frank and Ivy Stranahan on the New River downtown is the oldest structure in Broward County, and few would disagree with [...]

Slump in condo sales puts heralded project in default with main lender

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Pond View Village, a heralded experiment at turning a former industrial site into 124 units of heavily subsidized affordable and market-rate housing, has been unable to sell condos in a glutted market and has defaulted on its main lender.
It teeters at the brink of foreclosure.
Cape Ann Housing Opportunity, the community-based nonprofit organization that last year [...]

Highlands hotel in Glenties goes on the market

Friday, April 6th, 2007

ONE of Donegal’s best known family run hotels has been put on the market with a guide price of 5.5 million euro.
The landmark Highland’s Hotel in Glenties has been in the Boyle family for almost sixty years.
However, the present owner Johnny Boyle, has decided to leave the hotel business in order to concentrate on the [...]

Borough Prez To Trump: Tread Carefully With Soho Condo-Hotel

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

The Real Estate originally reported on Wednesday about the Donald’s premature sales moves regarding his planned condo-hotel in Soho. Seems Trump posted a questionnaire on the condo-hotel’s Web site asking potential buyers if they would use the project as a “primary residence,” “secondary residence,” or “investment property.”
According to an email sent on Wednesday night to [...]

Concert tickets not even on sale but hotel rooms filling up

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Scoring a hotel room in Halifax could be tougher than scoring a ticket to the rumoured Rolling Stones concert this fall.
The word on the street is that the Stones will perform an open-air concert on the Commons on Sept. 23. Although no one has officially confirmed the concert will go ahead, Rolling Stones fans are [...]


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