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Disney Estate Offered for $90 Million

Disney Estate Offered for $90 Million

The Carolwood Estate, the former Walt Disney property in Los Angeles, is on the market for $90 million, 10 times more than its last selling price in 1998. Walt Disney and wife Lillian first identified the property in Holmby Hills to build their fairytale home in 1949. Read More »

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United States Property Market Headlines

Lone Star Raising $6 Billion Distressed Fund

Lone Star Funds is looking to raise $6 billion for a fund to buy distressed commercial-property debt and equity, hoping to find higher returns for real estate investors. The biggest buyer of delinquen... Read More »

Do You Speak Miami Real Estate?

I want to take this space this time to explain some of the terminology that is important to know for an international buyer interested in Miami. Read More »

Al Capone's Palm Island Estate Sold

Al Capone's former Palm Island estate sold for $7.43 million, after undergoing several renovations and spending a year on the market. Known for infamous crime sprees in Chicago, the Brooklyn native mo... Read More »

U.S. Housing Starts Jump in May

Housing starts in the U.S. increased 6.8 percent in May from April, providing more optimism about a general housing recovery. The number of starts rose to an annual rate 914,000, 28.6 percent higher t... Read More »

Spotlight: Five Private Islands for Sale

Private islands are the ultimate status symbol. Water separates the owners from their peers -- and the cold cruel reality of the outside world. Surrounded by water, a home becomes a kingdom. Read More »

Aria Buys South Beach Property

Aria Development Group has purchased a 7,310-square-foot, two-story, multi-family property in Miami's famed South Beach neighborhood, with plans to redevelop the parcel into a 10,000-square-foot retai... Read More »

Q & A: Is Now the Time to Sell?

I'm trying to decide if I should put my home on the market. It is a condo in NYC. I hear inventory is low so it's a good time to list your home, but I am unsure what exactly that means for me as the s... Read More »

Tom Hanks Selling 'Legendary Villa'

Hollywood actor Tom Hanks and actress-wife Rita Wilson are selling the Spanish-style home in Pacific Palisades they've owned for 25 years for $5.225 million. Read More »

Home Builder Confidence Soars in the US

Home builder confidence has hit the highest level in seven years, as demand increases for new homes, according to data released today by the National Association of Home Builders. The NAHB's Housing M... Read More »

Analysis: The Myth of the US Housing Bubble

TV news pundits and bored property analysts are frantically debating the possibility that the U.S. is speeding toward another housing bubble, which will soon burst with catastrophic consequences for m... Read More »

Interview: Jacky Teplitzky on the New Normal

Douglas Elliman associate broker Jacky Teplitzky has a unique perspective on the international home buyers driving sales on the East Coast. Her Jacky Teplitzky Team has sold more than a billion dollar... Read More »

Jodie Foster Selling Hollywood Villa

Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster has listed her Hollywood Hills Spanish villa for $6.399 million. The 6,060-square-foot, four bedroom, 4.2-bath home is "the perfect refuge for those seeking ... Read More »

Parking Spots Selling for Big Prices

The bidding for the real estate started at $42,000 and hit $560,000 in 15 minutes. The coveted item--two rare tandem parking spaces in Boston's Back Bay, which were sold yesterday at auction for the r... Read More »

Median Price for a Home in San Francisco: $870,000

Although still far below their peak levels, home prices in San Francisco are returning to jaw dropping levels. The median price for a home in the City by the Bay hit $870,000 in May, a 24.1 percent ju... Read More »

Exclusive: Inside Swire's Plans for Miami Hotel

Swire Properties' new East brand hotel in Miami's Brickell CityCentre development will include a boardroom that can seat 250 people on the 39th floor with "uninterrupted views of the bay," says Brian ... Read More »

Are Home Inventory Problems Over in US?

Two major U.S. listing sites are reporting an increase in homes for sales, suggesting the inventory issues restricting the market may be coming to an end. Realtor.com reported a 5.82 percent increase ... Read More »

Safeway Sells Canada Markets for $5.7 Billion

U.S.-based supermarket giant Safeway has sold its Canadian operations to rival Sobey's in a deal valued at USD$5.7 billion. The agreement includes 213 Safeway-branded supermarkets, 10 liquor stores, 1... Read More »

Amazon Proposes 'Greenhouses' for Headquarters

Amazon wants to build three transparent domes as part of its new headquarters complex in Seattle, which would create work and social environments for employees in a greenhouse-like setting. Read More »

US Home Foreclosures Rise in May

Banks repossessed 11 percent more homes in May than a month earlier, although repossession activity was still 29 percent below year-ago levels, according to new data from RealtyTrac. Read More »

More US Hotels in Development

The U.S. hotel development pipeline has increased 11.3 percent since May a year ago, including 2,677 projects totaling 322,963 rooms, according to the new STR Pipeline report. The data includes projec... Read More »

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