What happens if you take the Internet famous “Stuff White People Like” and compare that data with which cities have the most of the things white people like? You get Movoto’s top ten cities white people like. Continue reading
Real Estate
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Housing bubble alert. With interest rates low and a lot of demand now is a great time to be a seller. The nice people over at Realtor.org have layered their market data that used to only come in Excel format onto Google Maps for a nice mashup, as the internet kids like to call it.
The data below gives you a quick view to the median price of a single family detached home in different metropolitan statistical areas. Did you catch all those loaded words there? Let’s break it down.
Just remember, buy low – sell high. Continue reading
I watch a lot of House Hunters, that HGTV show where folks tour three perspective homes before choosing one. Or something like that. To justify the hundreds of hours I’ve spent voyeuristically touring homes, let me share a piece of what I’ve learned. Continue reading
The Penobscot building in downtown Detroit just sold for $5M to a Toronto based company. The selling price was $5.00 per square foot for the 1M square foot building. Detroit office space vacancy rates are currently around 25%. But for the same amount of money you can get 173 Perry Street, Unit 4N in Manhattan. Assuming you live there or can rent it out the vacancy rate should be zero. Continue reading
Imagine paying $13,000 for one square foot of property. Now imagine being so wealthy that you don’t even care. Continue reading
Dick Clark, the 82-year old former host of American Bandstand and New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, is selling his unique Malibu home for $3.5 million. Continue reading
Do you have a spare $110M sitting around? Oh, you mean you’re not a Russian oil baron? Then you can at least take a look at what the new One57 building will have to offer. Continue reading
This is some unreal real estate. An American fort built in 1844 to deter British invasion from the north, Fort Montgomery lies abandoned and unwanted at the US-Canada border on Lake Champlain. An earlier plan was halted when a surveyors’ error was discovered and the builders realized that the 45th parallel, the US-Canada border, was almost a mile south, placing the fort squarely in enemy territory. An 1842 treaty adjusted the border and the site of ‘Fort Blunder’ became the legitimate property of the United States. Continue reading
How lucky would you feel if you were going to get a condo for ten bucks? Continue reading
Ellen and Portia are looking to sell their massive estate in Beverly Hills for $60 million dollars. I know, I know, this may not be as unlived in and well kept as Huguette Clark’s 42-room Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment, $32 million Cold War bomb shelter in Connecticut, or her Santa Barbara estate but it does look pretty nice. I mean, Ellen did buy it for $29 million initially and has put $19 million towards snapping up surrounding mansions. The new, even more massive estate sprawls across an impressive 24,000 square feet which is not too shabby for the star of Mr.Wrong.
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