The RBI’s decision to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points will result in an increase in interest rates on home loans and may impact demand for affordable and lower mid-income housing segments, according to property developers and consultants. The real estate industry is also hoping that RBI’s move on Wednesday will be the…
Brooklyn News: A New Pizza Spot Is Coming to PLG
Owner of Haitian Restaurant Zanmi Opens Artisanal Pizza Spot in Prospect Lefferts Gardens Flatbush’s Nostrand Avenue is in need, according to Chef Wesly Jean Simon, who owns Haitian restaurant Zanmi, which sits on the corner of the block and Hawthorne Street. There are several good pizza restaurants in the area, according to Jean Simon, and…
Rent control: What tenants should know as rental prices surge across Canada – National
As inflation and high housing costs continue to bite Canadians, Toronto resident Annie Gibson is concerned and frustrated at the prospect of the rent going up for her one-bedroom apartment. The owner of her building in the west-end neighborhood of Parkdale is looking to increase the rent by 5.5 per cent — which is above…
Realtors: No time for post-boom doom and gloom
The North Bay and Area Realtors Association’s president says there is cause for optimism despite just 29 homes sold in December 2022 — a drop of 47.3 per cent from December 2021— as home sales fell to the lowest annual level since 2014 A few down months after nearly two years of record-setting real estate…
Charm-Filled Bed Stuy Wood Frame Italianate With Moldings, Mantels, Parking Asks $1.495 Million
When it was constructed, this wooden Italianate frame would have been one of many dotting its blocks, built in the late 1860s and 1870s before the boom of masonry row house construction in Bed Stuy. While change has come for many houses on the block, 170 Madison Street still retains its charm, or in the…
Podcaster Jon Favreau Lists His Los Angeles Home for $4.4M
Political podcaster Jon Favreau is trading up in the City of Angels. Indeed, the former speechwriter for President Barack Obama and current co-host of the podcast “Pod Save America” is moving to the coveted Windsor Square neighborhood. So he’s unloading his gorgeously renovated Los Angeles launch, which he picked up in 2020 for $3.5 million….
At least 3 BC homes listed for sale without homeowners’ knowledge amid a surge in title fraud in Ontario
There have been at least three cases of attempted title fraud in BC since 2019, according to the province’s land title authority. Title fraud is a complex real estate crime in which fraudsters purport to be homeowners attempt to sell properties they do not own. The Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA)…
Denver Parks & Rec is tripling the amount of land it manages at DIA
Scott Gilmore used to sneak into the Rocky Mountain National Arsenal back when it was one of the most polluted patches of land in the country. He navigated barbed wire and warning signs in the 1980s to enter the 17,000-acre Superfund site and snap photographs of the bald eagles and hawks roosting there. Scott Gilmore,…
Saskatchewan realtors say housing market supply at lowest levels in more than a decade
Saskatchewan realtors say the province’s housing market has very low supply levels, especially in lower-priced homes. “Buyers in the market are ready, willing, able to buy and pre-qualified, but there’s nothing out there for them to buy,” Scott Ziegler, a realtor in Saskatoon, said. “When we have these inventory shortages, statistically speaking it is more…
Brooklyn Mental Health Advocates Speak Out About Involuntary Hospitalization Policy
Two months after Mayor Eric Adams announced a new policy expanding involuntary hospitalizations of homeless and mentally ill New Yorkers, Brooklyn-based mental health advocates are hoping a more comprehensive and compassionate approach is possible. In late November, Adams announced that first responders and members of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would have…