Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen, whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who regarded her as a 1980s symbol of arrogance and greed, died Monday at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 87.
The cause of death was heart failure, said her [...]

A real-estate deal in Denver goes into the history books. An anonymous buyer spent $10 million on the penthouse condo that will be built on top of the new Four Seasons Hotel at 14th and Arapahoe.
According to the Four Seasons that is the most expensive condo ever bought in the Denver area. [...]

So far this year, the developer of the oceanfront Costa Verano condos has reported a 17 percent national default, referring to buyers who walked away from their contracts and their six-figure deposits.
But that wasn’t the case for the Costa Verano at 1031 First St. S. and defaults have been few with new condos in Jacksonville [...]

A judge has granted part of a request for class action in a lawsuit involving a Springdale apartment complex.
The Springdale Ridge Apartments were evacuated after carbon monoxide was detected in August 2004.
Washington County Circuit Judge Mary Ann Gunn ruled Wednesday a class consisting of former residents seeking rent refunds and punitive damages from owners and [...]

Jolly Beach Resort, Antigua’s best all-inclusive value, now offers online vacation shoppers the option of booking air-inclusive packages, in addition to its hotel-only booking option, on its website www.jollybeachresort.com.
“Offering air-inclusive packages on our website is a natural extension of the online hotel booking engine we launched last year,” says the resort’s new Director of Marketing [...]

Starwood Capital Group today announced that the recently launched “1” Hotel and Residences, the world’s first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand, will open New York City’s first five-star green hotel on West 40th Street in Manhattan, across from Bryant Park. The “1” Hotel and Residences will be part of a proposed 31-story mixed-use green tower [...]

Kansas City — 3838 Partners LLC is converting the Rainbow Tower, an apartment complex in Kansas City, into the Vista Condominiums. The $5-million project is the first-ever high-rise condo conversion in Wyandotte County.
The first phase of the project is slated to be ready for occupancy by July, with the majority of the common areas completed [...]

Under new ownership, the Hotel Jerome reopened Friday without longtime general manager Tony DiLucia at the helm.
Otherwise, the 92-room historic hotel appeared to be operating under a business-as-usual approach, underscored by a line of thirsty patrons occupying the stools at the J-Bar.
An employee at the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorder’s Office said the sale, which [...]

If condominium hotels are simply hotels with multiple owner financing, why is it causing so much dissension on Pensacola Beach?
Julian MacQueen of Innisfree Hotels and Robert Rinke of Portofino were the guests of NAIOP, the National Association of Industrial and Office Professionals, Wednesday, May 16.
MacQueen is one of Pensacola Beach’s main hotel developers. He owns [...]

Like the final minutes of a TV makeover show, construction crews and designers are scrambling to put the finishing touches on some downtown condominium models for the big reveal this weekend.
More than 2,000 people are expected to tour 13 downtown condos Saturday on the Downtown Living Tour.
Developers and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce first [...]

Newlyweds seeking a little adventure on their honeymoon may want to consider the Mexican Caribbean island of Cozumel Home of Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of Fertility, Cozumel has long been viewed as a place of romance and love. With its intimate island setting, warm tropical climate, beautiful white-sand beaches and crystal clear aquamarine waters, Cozumel [...]

The Condo Hotel concept is attractive to many who are interested in investing their hard earned pennies in real estate. One type of condotel purchaser is someone seeking a vacation place, but due to the limited amount of time they anticipate being able to spend there, buying a traditional condominium would not seem an economically [...]