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 [...]
Celebrating not only their tenth anniversary but also a US$ 1.6 million flooring contract from Dubai Mall Hotel, Al Aqili Furnishings (AAF), is set to become the largest sole exhibitor at the Hotel Show 2007.
The industry showpiece which takes place at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre (DIEC) on 3-5 June will play host to the [...]
Even as experts fret over a dramatic burst of the bulging U.S. real estate bubble that might send prices plunging across the nation, the land and housing values in the Potomac Highlands are defying the trend.
“With an average unit price of $174,503 and a lot of wild life,†the RealtyTimes.com reported last month, “the buyers [...]
Norm Miller, director of the real estate program at the University of Cincinnati since 1981, will join the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate as a full professor and director of academic programs this summer.
Miller is co-author of a textbook for graduate-level real estate courses. His research interests include housing trends and [...]
NEWARK — An event at a Teaneck synagogue offering information on buying homes on Israel’s West Bank is drawing opposition from an Israeli group, as well as pro-Palestinian organizations, who say such efforts undermine international peace efforts.
They also questioned if the sale of what they consider illegally occupied lands violates anti-discrimination laws. However, a New [...]
Mortgage applications for U.S. home purchases and refinancing rose last week when long-term borrowing costs dipped, an industry trade group said on Wednesday, but other housing measures were mixed.
Stock and bond market turbulence on Tuesday yanked some Treasury yields to two-month lows, signaling a further slide infixed mortgage rates that should fuel home sales in [...]
DOHA: EasyGroup, which owns British low-cost airline easyJet and 17 easy-branded ventures, is keen to set up a budget hotel in Doha.
“We are interested either in an existing hotel or acquiring a piece of land in Doha, easyGroup founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou said in an exclusive interview with Gulf Times here yesterday.
EasyGroup’s budget hotel franchise- [...]
Wall Street will get its first taste of a publicly traded hedge fund Friday when Fortress Investment Group LLC sells shares in an initial public offering valuing the alternative asset manager at $7.38 billion.
The New York-based funds of funds, which manages $29.9 billion in assets, is the first of its kind to go public in [...]
The family-friendly Residence Inn Orlando SeaWorld/International Center was honored as a 2006 winner of TripAdvisor’s Award for Best Hotels in the US for Families. Named ninth place-winner for being one of the best hotels for families in the United States, this Orlando, FL hotel was chosen by millions of travelers from around the world.
“The Residence [...]
Anchorage has a bigger pot of money to market itself to tourists and finance its new convention center due to a significant increase in last year’s hotel and motel room tax collections.
An increase in the tax rate and a rise in the number of visitors who spent the night in hotels and motels last year [...]
Commercial real estate in Indianapolis saw solid but not record-setting gains last year.
The office-vacancy rate shrank to its lowest level since 2000. Newly occupied industrial space topped an impressive 5 million square feet for the third year in a row. And 10 major new retailers opened stores last year, all but one of them at [...]
A 63-acre estate with a 10,000 square-foot mansion in Alpine, N.J. sold for $58 million, according to a news release.
This is the most expensive home sale for the year 2006 in the U.S.. The English-style residence includes cottages, pool and tennis courts. This was bought by Richard Kurtz, CEO for Advanced Photonix and sold by [...]
