Risky business: Marijuana dispensaries present high risk, high reward for...
From left: Matt Ginder, Nick Hansen, Tara Tredow, and Dan Dietz Landlords who rake in rents from medical marijuana dispensaries may put their commercial bank accounts and title insurance at risk,...
View ArticlePut a ring on it: Iconic Las Vegas chapel hits the market for $12M
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman married in 1958 at A Little White Chapel (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) One of the most famous churches in Las Vegas is on the market for $12 million. A Little White...
View ArticleSaudi princess puts Mulholland Estates abode on the market
Princess Maha bint Mishari Abdulaziz Alsaud’s Asian-inspired mansion in the Mulholland Estates (Credit: Douglas Elliman) An opportunity to live like royalty is now up for grabs for under $10 million....
View ArticleBlack is back: Home design turns to the dark side
Dark black is trending in Southern California home design, for both interior and exterior. Homes in Palm Springs, left, and in Los Angeles, right (Credit: Marmol-Radziner-Mandeville) A stark, dark...
View ArticleA Titanic survivor’s estate is on the market for $1.8M
The former home of a woman saved from the Titanic is now on the market for $1.795 million. The property known as Overledge — at 159 River Road in Nyack — dates back to 1916, Inman reported. Margaret...
View ArticleArchitecture’s final frontier: Here’s what houses on Mars might look like
A new competition asks what would houses on Mars look like (Credit: Getty Images, Pixabay) The most Earth-like planet in the solar system, Mars has always looked like an obvious choice for future human...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Johnson & Johnson heirs list newly subdivided estate
The crown jewel of late Johnson & Johnson heiress’ real estate holdings is back on the market. The late Elizabeth Ross “Libet” Johnson, great-granddaughter of the Johnson & Johnson co-founder,...
View ArticleBrokerage apologizes for sexy video to promote upscale listing
A real estate brokerage firm in Australia is apologizing for posting a sexy video to market a luxury home after it drew widespread ridicule on social media. Sam Nadler, an agent with LJ Hooker...
View ArticleThis lender plans to underwrite $1B in mortgages with no income, no asset...
(Credit: iStock) Austin, Texas-based 360 Mortgage Group just revealed that it will conduct a pilot program to test the viability of no-income, no-asset mortgage loans by originating up to $1 billion of...
View ArticleBrexit banking exodus fuels real estate gold rush in Dublin
(Credit: iStock) Debt investors are eager to lend a helping hand to Irish landlords looking to acquire rental housing for employees of banks and law firms moving from London to Dublin. As the U.K.’s...
View ArticleWhat’s behind Sweden’s unlikely co-living craze
(Credit: iStock) In a country where 52% of households are single people, co-living would seem like a unlikely bet, but a dire housing shortage seems to fueling a societal shift. Residential properties...
View ArticleBlackstone claims to be caught in “brazen attempted shakedown” over Italian...
Milan (Credit: Pixabay, iStock) Blackstone Group is fighting an Italian media mogul in court over ownership of an office complex in Milan. RCS Media Group SpA sold the three-building office complex,...
View ArticleSpanish real estate new focus in major European money laundering scheme
Hermitage Capital’s Bill Browder, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (Credit: Getty) Spanish real estate has become the focus of the probe into the money laundering case linked to the death of Russian...
View ArticleDon Wilson’s plan to sell stakes in South Carolina property via digital token...
Don Wilson (Credit: LinkedIn, iStock) A Chicago trader’s plan to use digital tokens to sell equity in a South Carolina student housing complex has fallen apart. Don Wilson’s Convexity Properties...
View ArticleInside the tension behind the scenes at Keller Williams
Keller Williams co-founder Gary Keller at the company’s annual convention, where he gavea three-hour update on the firm’s $1 billion tech push On a recent early-morning flight to New Orleans, a flight...
View ArticleNYC developers have been using this loophole to build taller. But not for long
Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th Street and 432 Park Avenue (Credit: Wikipedia and Pixabay) Manhattan developers for years have boosted the heights of their towers by using a loophole in the city’s...
View ArticleThe legislator is a landlord: A quarter of California lawmakers also collect...
From left: Anthony Rendon and Sydney Kamlager-Dove Along with voting on bills that include rent control caps and new protections for renters, one of the preferred side hustles for California...
View ArticleJohn Stanley plans affordable complex at Manchester Square church
John Stanley founder Saki Middleton and Southside Church of Christ (Credit: Google Maps) Real estate development firm John Stanley Inc. wants to build an affordable housing complex on church property...
View ArticleAnother hotel conversion planned for DTLA, this one at historic Continental...
The Continental Building with Anthony Klok and Gene Kornota There’s another hotel conversion project slated for 4th and Spring streets in Downtown Los Angeles. Chicago-based Rebel Hospitality has filed...
View ArticleWeWork shuffles C-suite executives amid international push
From left: Adam Neumann, Eugen Miropolski and Jen Berrent (Credit: Getty Images and Twitter) The co-working giant formerly known as WeWork is reorganizing its C-suite as it tries to build its...
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