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  • Bryce Dallas Howard's Hollywood Hills Home Sells For $2.4 Million
    The "Hereafter" actress, Bryce Dallas Howard, has finally sold her Hollywood Hills mansion for $2.45 million after she listed it on the open market for around $2.3 million. Looks like, she has earned a little profit on the sale of her home.
  • Trainer Jillian Michaels’ Los Angeles Home is Asking $2.45 Million (PHOTOS)
    Famous fitness trainer, Jillian Michaels may be helping a lot of people lose weight but definitely doesn’t want to lose out on any profit on the sale of her home.
  • Model Ali Landry Lists Los Angeles Residence for $1.9 Million
    The “Doritos Girl”, Ali Landry has reportedly listed her Moroccan-style Los Feliz residence on the open listing market with an asking price of $1.9 million. The soon-to-be third time mommy purchased the house sometime back in 2004 for around $900,000.
  • Building a House with Rubik’s Cubes
    The folks at Movoto Real Estate (who apparently love all kinds of blocks) put on their creative thinking caps and decided to find out how many Rubik’s Cubes would it require to build an average-sized 2,169 square foot, double story home and how much time would it take to solve those cubes and put them in place.
  • Downtown Miami Railway Station to Start Construction in Late 2013
    Construction on the “All Aboard Florida” railway station is likely to begin in the latter half of 2013, project development officials said to the Miami Today, Thursday May 9.
  • News International in Talks to Move Office to “The Baby Shard”
    News International, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch owned publishing house, News Corporation is in advanced talks of shifting its U.K. base to a 17-story building, The Place. It is located just beside the Shard building near the river Thames.
  • Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island Mansion Saga Continues
    Taylor Swift, the “I knew you were trouble” singer recently moved into her Rhode Island mansion that she purchased amid much tabloid hullabaloo. She was spotted arriving at the $17 million residence with her parents and making herself at home in her new digs. Here are two facts related to Swift’s Rhode Island Mansion.
  • A Skyscraper for Honey Bees (PHOTOS)
    On the banks of the Buffalo River, among a group of unused grain silos, stands a “bee-tastic” seven feet tall structure that is home to thousands of honey-bees that had once called a boarded-up window of an old office tower their home. The structure is the winning design for the bee-home designing “Hive City” competition that was held by the University.
  • Neighbor Alleges Gwyneth Paltrow’s Gate is ‘Too High’
    The “Iron man 3” actress, Gwyneth Paltrow is hated by many people and the latest addition to the “haters-list” is reportedly a neighbor who is furious about the height of her home’s “gate”.
  • Pay $50 to Tour a Listed Rare Toronto Home or Forget It!
    A Toronto based real estate firm has taken the saying “All good things come at a cost” quite seriously. Dagmara Lulek and Vito Doria, agents at Royal LePage Listings are charging a $50 fee for showing a rare beach-area home, just near the lake Ontario.
  • JPMorgan Unit Buying Manhattan Office Tower for $750 Million
    JP Morgan Asset Management, a unit of JP Morgan Chase has agreed to buy a posh 31-story office building in Manhattan, New York for something around $750 million. The building is one of the two office towers that are being auctioned off by major property firm, Hines.
  • Number of Improving Property Markets in US Dips Slightly in May, NAHB Report
    A recent report released by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) revealed that the number of improving property markets in the U.S. has dropped to 258 from the 273 recorded in April.
  • Fashion Designer Bijan Pakzad’s Estate Sold for $9.8 Million (PHOTOS)
    Late Iranian fashion designer, Bijan Pakzad’s plush estate in Beverly Hills, California has reportedly sold for $9.8 million. The exclusive property was offered for sale for $12 million and was allowed to be viewed by appointment only.
  • Reese Witherspoon Buys Third Property in Brentwood Circle for $3 Million
    The “Sweet Home Alabama” actress, Reese Witherspoon has reportedly purchased a property, just next to a compound she already owns in Brentwood Circle, Los Angeles for $3 million. The purchase makes this her third buy in the area.
  • Scottish Island Tanera Mor for Sale, Asking $3.9 Million
    A tiny island off the North West Coast of Scotland, Tanera Mor has reportedly hit the open listing market with an asking price of about $3.9 ($3.88) million. The island is the only inhabited piece of land in the Summer Isles archipelago of Wester Ross.
  • World’s Smallest Hotel to Open in Copenhagen
    Shrinking furniture and apartments can pull off being "micro" with a “cute, cozy and efficient” label but a hotel or resort always charms with size. But that is set to change now. The world’s smallest hotel will have just one room, one bathroom and will be located atop a small café when it opens in June.
  • Mystery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Solved (VIDEO)
    For centuries and decades now, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon has been an issue of intrigue and curiosity among historians, archaeologists and researchers. For a long time now, the existence of the gardens has also been questioned. But recent revelations of a study conducted by Dr. Stephanie Dalley, an Oxford University based historian has not only proved that the gardens actually existed but also claim that they were not located in Babylon and neither were they built by King Nebuchadnezzar.
  • Sunstone Acquires New Orleans Hilton for $59.4 Million; Under Contract to Purchase Boston Park Plaza &Towers for $250 Million
    Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc, a famous hotel industry investing firm has purchased the Hilton New Orleans hotel on St. Charles Avenue for $59.4 million and has also entered into contract to buy the famous Boston Park Plaza and Towers in Back bay, Boston for around $250 million. The firm just announced the transactions in its first quarter results ended March 31, 2013.
  • Julianne Hough Sells Nashville Condo for $900,000 (PHOTOS)
    Julianne Hough of the “Safe Haven” fame has reportedly sold her condo in Nashville for around $900,000. She has now reportedly moved into a $3 million mansion, which her ex, Ryan Seacrest gave to her as a parting present.
  • Chris Evans Buys New Home in Los Angeles for $3.5 Million
    Chris Evans, a.k.a “Captain America” has reportedly purchased a cozy property in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles for a cool $3.5 million.
  • Care to Buy Some “Lunar” Real Estate? (VIDEO)
    If you thought that the real estate market on earth was hot, you would definitely call the property market of the moon “scorching”. Dennis Hope, founder of Lunar Embassy Corporation and a real estate agent claims that he has sold almost around 7.5 percent of the moon’s land and made around $600 million by selling 11 acres of the natural satellite!
  • Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Buys Another Property in Malibu
    Larry Ellison, the witty Chief Executive of software giant, Oracle has spent something in the range of $200 million to $270 million on more than a dozen properties in Malibu through nine separate transactions over the last ten years. His latest purchase is a two-story, white stucco building in a three structure gated and walled private compound on Carbon Beach.
  • UBS Sub-Leasing Park Avenue Office Space to Cut Property Costs
    UBS, the Swiss banking giant is reportedly cutting down on its leased office space in the 299 Park Avenue Building, a 42 story office tower located in Manhattan, New York. The move comes as the company is looking to cut down its property costs.
  • Real Estate Brokers to Drop “Inflated” Titles
    Looks like the business card printing stores in New York will get a fresh influx of orders, largely from real estate brokers . The Real Estate Board of New York will soon impose a ban on the titles that these agents carry.
  • Mitch Richmond Lists Calabasas Home for $9.4 Million (PHOTOS)
    Mitch Richmond, former NBA Rookie of the year and current Scout for the Golden State Warriors has reportedly listed his home in Calabasas for a good $9.4 million. Richmond purchased the home in July 2004 for $1.7 million.
  • Candy Furniture: The Next Crazy Thing in Home Décor? (PHOTOS)
    Just after the world of home décor was awestruck with plans of commercializing “cook-able” furniture, a new type of edible furniture has made its way into the world of interior decoration. The new collection of furniture would easily remind one of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” as one of the sofas is made of white chocolate and a small table formed of hard boiled orange candy!
  • Royal Couple Kate and William’s Baby Nursery Designs Revealed
    As the royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton are bracing themselves to welcome their heir in July, they have already started designing the baby’s room and plan on stuffing it with extraordinary furniture in their under-construction apartment at 1A in Kensington.
  • UN Security Council Chamber in New York Reopens After Renovation
    The original United Nations Security Council Chamber finally opened its doors to the delegates after three long and strenuous years of remodeling and renovation on April 16, 2013. The Council room looks spick and exudes an air of importance and respect that it very rightly holds.
  • Five Favorite Cities of the Ultra-Rich (PHOTOS)
    The rich have their reasons for investing in or favoring a particular city. While some cities win with their “business importance and trade hub” features, others acquire an edge for being a “prospective developing city”. Check out the top five favorite cities of the rich in the slideshow here.
  • New Hyatt Regency Hotel to Open in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by January 2015
    An affiliate of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation has reportedly entered into an agreement with a state unitary enterprise of Uzbekistan to build a brand new Hyatt Regency Hotel in the city of Tashkent. The hotel will help boost the already strong tourism sector of the country.
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