Billy Corgan, frontman of Smashing Pumpkins, has put his East Coast-style home in Beverly Hills, CA a few months ago on the market for $4.95 million. Up to this time, no buyer has yet stepped up to buy the two-storey house, so the piece of rock star history is still up for grabs.
The couple’s initiative was announced Tuesday, along with the birth of their baby girl, Max. The couple promised an endowment of $45 billion in Facebook stock, a huge sum that would edge out the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the world’s No. 1 foundation.
Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, purchased a mansion in early November in the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, for a whopping price of $9.95 million. The classic home was last listed on the market in 2012, when it was sold for $7.4 million.
The Grateful Dead raked in over $55 million in only five shows on their triumphant reunion tour over the summer. The group’s bassist, Phil Lesh, immediately bought a piece of property worth $4.35 million in the Marin County in Ross, CA.
InvestSelect, the crowdfunding company's newest platform, issues loans instead of investing equity in real estate. Participants who invest $25,000 or less are promised a 9% return from interest rates. Those who shed out at least $30,000 are offered a higher return rate of 10%.
After an investigation done by New York government officials, it turns out that more than half of AIRbnb listings in the city of New York for the month of November are actually illegal. According to NY Curbed, the NYC government pressured the website to share their user data. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman took charge of this effort. Although the website, which is now pegged to be worth $24B, succumbed last Tuesday to the government's demands, officials refuse to believe that the data shared to them is complete.
Indonesia is changing its rules on taxing luxury properties. In this move that could iron the uncertainty that is plaguing the real estate sector, certain apartments and houses are now to be valued based on value instead of size, The Business Times reports.
As a seller, you must know some ways in order to determine the legitimacy of the prospect buyer. It can be stressful having to work with bogus home buyers.
Yahoo is getting a lot of pressure to sell its core business. Who shall buy it? Yahoo is getting a lot of pressure to sell its core business that includes email, news and online search engine, which is one of the largest in the tech world.
One of the most sought-after television show director, Michelle MacLaren relists her home in Los Angeles with a smashing $400,000 price cut, according to Realtor, where the property is currently listed.