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(SLIDESHOWS) Luxury Homes Sales of 2018: A tour of big, fancy houses nationwide – including one in Greensboro
Consider them the places we'd love to own — or at least visit.
The properties featured here are among the multimillion-dollar and historic real estate sites that drew attention across the past 12 months.
Some of the deals, and the properties, have celebrity connections, with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Eddie Murphy and Selena Gomez associated with the real estate. Current and former athletes were among this year's buyers and sellers, as well, as were business leaders with ties to…
406-acre Texas ranch for sale with $7.3M price tag
A Houston-area ranch owned by the estate of Dr. Denton Cooley, a renowned heart surgeon who died in 2016, is for sale with an asking price of $7.3 million.
Click the slideshow to tour the property
Cool Acres spans 406 acres and is about 10 minutes south of Simonton in Fort Bend County, according to the listing page on Republic Ranches’ website. The property sits 115 feet above the Brazos River, which runs along nearly a mile of the ranch, so Cool Acres' houses have never flooded, per the…
Worthington apartment complex expanding to meet demand for senior housing
National Church Residences has a new plan for redeveloping a Worthington senior community.
With deadline looming, Stanford takes Santa Clara County to court over affordable housing
Faced with a Christmas Eve deadline to negotiate with Santa Clara County over affordable housing, Stanford University is instead taking the county to court, anticipating that they’ll likely not reach consensus by tonight.
The school’s twin lawsuits, filed last week in state and federal courts, claim a county housing ordinance passed in September violates the equal protection clauses in the state and federal constitutions by setting an affordable housing requirement that other developers aren’t…
Greater Cincinnati homebuilders win Best of Ohio awards
Three Greater Cincinnati homebuilders were honored with awards in this year’s Ohio Home Builders Association Best of Ohio competition.
Liberty Township-based Justin Doyle Homes won the award for Best Custom Home over 5,000 square feet for its Savannah model that was featured in Homearama, while M/I Homes Cincinnati was awarded Best Interior/Product Design in two divisions – 2,501-3,500 square feet and over 5,001 square feet.
Anderson-based Somerset Custom Homes was a co-honoree with Akron’s…
5 ways Houston office landlords can boost occupancy with medical tenants
The office market in Houston is highly competitive with 8.6 million square feet in sublease space on the market and a 23.7 percent vacancy. However, health care continues to remain a highly desirable property type, with less than 4 percent vacancy in the Texas Medical Center.
With no indications that the medical sector is going to slow down, office building owners have an opportunity to take advantage of this medical boom by positioning their assets to appeal to medical users. Here are some ways…
UT hires developer for basketball center replacement
Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey will act as the venue's “Minister of Culture,” according to the announcement.
Silverstein Properties looks to buy Center City skyscraper
This would be the first acquisition in Philadelphia for the New York real estate firm, which developed the new World Trade Center.
Wealthiest ZIP codes: Sacramento-area neighborhoods sail past six figures
For the top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in Sacramento, a $100,000 salary will put you either on par or below your peers.
The neighborhoods were ranked by the median household income and are located in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties. Granite Bay tops the list with an average income of $130,063, and Mather comes in at No. 25, with an average income of $78,375.
Granite Bay also topped the list of most exclusive neighborhoods, ranked by minimum salary required to afford the median home…
Year in review: A look at some of the most prominent home sales of 2018
During 2018, the St. Louis Business Journal highlighted a number of high-end homes that were either bought or sold by prominent individuals in the St. Louis region. The individuals in these transactions included local sports stars, political figures and business executives.
They purchased or sold their luxury homes in a year where the local high-end home market has transitioned toward more of a balanced market, according to Gail Kuntz of RE/MAX Results.
Kuntz said high-end properties are “not…