For sale: a vast tunnel complex in central London. Former tenants include Britain’s secret service, the famous hot line between America and the Soviet Union during the cold war and 400 tons of government documents. The asking price is $7.4 million.
More Foreclosure Related Transactions
I don’t know about you, but there are a lot more foreclosure-esque real estate transactions (bank owned, FHA/VA Repo, Short Sale …) happening lately… at least in my neck of the woods. It is getting to the point where we are closing at least one to two foreclosure-related properties a month (buyer/seller) - in ADDITION to the “regular” ones we close.
Following the past year's wave of foreclosures, there are deals to be had for all kinds of property, even if you're the type who prefers calling a creepy underground lair home.
Arkansas cave owner Steve Rush is auctioning off the 29-acre Mystic Caverns in the hills of the Ozark Mountains. The property includes a gift shop and three caves, two of which are safe enough for guests. The bidding starts at $899,900 -- about 25 percent off Rush's original asking price. Rush opened the caves to tours in 1992, and says there are about 15,000 visitors each year.
Tools like Facebook and Twitter are great fits for real estate industry, some observers say.
While many businesses still are testing the waters of social media, an Austin-area real estate agent and his social media-savvy wife have dived in headfirst.
Benn Rosales and Lani Anglin-Rosales run Single Pointe Realty, which uses social media tools to connect to customers, and Agent Genius, a startup online real estate magazine that focuses on social media tools and industry trends.
Plunging real-estate values have made it an opportune time for older homeowners to give property to their children, while realizing big savings on gift and estate taxes.
They can do this by moving the home out of their estate with a so-called qualified personal residence trust, or QPRT, which allows homeowners to live in a property for many years before passing it on to their heirs. Though the trusts have been around for many years, many estate planners say now could be a good time to set one up since real-estate values have fallen dramatically in many markets.
Amid the chaos of recent days, as the federal government has taken gargantuan steps to stabilize the financial markets, realigning the U.S. economic system in the process, comes a nearly universal consensus: This crisis resulted from government reluctance to regulate the unbridled greed of Wall Street. Many economists and market participants who were formerly averse to government interference agree that a more robust regulatory framework must be constructed to cage the destructive forces of capitalism.
The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.
Computer-guided electric podcars like these carry small groups of people on their own networks.
Computer-guided electric podcars like these carry small groups of people on their own networks.
To Jacob Roberts, podcars -- or PRTs, for personal rapid transit -- represent an important component in the here-and-now of transportation.
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