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Photos: Historic Beverly Hills home once owned by Hearst lists for $135 million
A Beverly Hills mansion once owned by William Randolph Hearst that also served as a honeymoon spot for John F. Kennedy is back on the market for $135 million.
The home, named “The Beverly House,” was designed in 1927 by Gordon Kaufmann, the architect behind such landmarks as Greystone in Beverly Hills, the Hoover Dam, Hollywood Palladium, the Los Angeles Times building in downtown L.A., and the Santa Anita Racetrack.
Aside from being the home of Hearst and film actress Marion Davies during Hollywood’s…
Greater Nashville home sales see a big dip in September
Last month brought another sign of Nashville’s cooling housing market.
The Greater Nashville Realtors today announced that the region saw 3,258 home closings in September, down 8 percent compared to a year ago.
It follows a 2 percent uptick in August and a 1.5 percent decrease in July.
Single-family homes sold in September for a median price of $290,000, up from $280,000 a year ago. Condo units sold for a median price of $218,150, down from $223,450 a year ago.
October home sales also appear…
Two new residential projects would bring 76 upscale homes to Johns Creek
Prices would range from the low $400,000s to the low $600,000s.
Alpharetta apartments by “Alpha Loop” sell for $172 million
Pollack Shores Real Estate Group paid just over $172 million for a sprawling Alpharetta apartment development near Georgia 400.
The Atlanta real estate company completed the purchase of the 800-unit development Sept. 19, according to Fulton County records. It's the second largest metro Atlanta multifamily transaction this year behind only the sale of Emory Point next to Emory University and the CDC.
That project sold for about $175 million.
Pollack Shores paid $215,468 per unit for Amli Northwinds,…
Sales of 8 condo units help push Kauai median price up 80% in September
The sale of eight units at Brookfield Hawaii’s Pili Mai at Poipu project in September was enough to push the median price of a condominium last month up by more than 79 percent, according to statistics from Hawaii Information Service on behalf of the Kauai Board of Realtors.
The median price of a condo on Kauai last month was $785,000, an increase of 79.43 percent from September 2017. That was based on sales of 39 units, which was 8.33 percent more than the 36 units that sold in September last…
Houston developer wishes his San Antonio mixed-use project had more condos
Condo prices range from between $400,000 and $5 million.
Minnesota Multi Housing Association names new CEO
The Minnesota Multi Housing Association has named Nichol Beckstrand, former president of Sunrise Banks, president and CEO of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit.
Beckstrand served as president of Sunrise Banks for 12 years. Prior to that, she served as a principal at Clifton Larson Allen for about 10 years.
“Nichol’s energy and track record of leadership, knowledge of the dynamically changing rental housing market provides Minnesota Multi Housing with a strong leader to position the Association…
Where do Bay Area exiles move? Depends on income
Not everyone leaving the Bay Area is priced out. Take Nicolette Manahan, whose family of four recently left El Cerrito for Denver, saying that the Colorado capital’s more affordable housing market allowed her to purchase a larger home.
“I’m so excited and happy with our decision,” Manahan said. Both she and her husband are able to work remotely.
A new study from BuildZoom and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, took a close look at who is…
Historic Beverly Hills home once owned by Hearst lists for $135M (Photos)
The Beverly Hills, California, mansion once owned by William Randolph Hearst and served as a honeymoon spot for John F. Kennedy is back on the market for $135 million.
The home, named The Beverly House, was designed in 1927 by Gordon Kaufmann, the architect behind such landmarks as Greystone in Beverly Hills, the Hoover Dam, Hollywood Palladium, the Los Angeles Times building in downtown L.A., and the Santa Anita Racetrack.
Aside from being the home of Hearst and film actress Marion Davies during…
These are the best ABQ neighborhoods for climbing the economic ladder
Where you grow up can have a huge impact on how much you earn later in life, new data shows.
Researchers from Harvard University, Brown University and the U.S. Census Bureau created the Opportunity Atlas, an interactive tool aiming to trace the root of issues such as poverty, income levels and job growth. It shows that adjacent neighborhoods can have drastically different outcomes, especially in low-income areas.
For the study, researchers analyzed the outcomes of 20.5 million people, primarily…