Two years after the Grenfell inferno in London killed 72 people, hundreds of high-rise apartment buildings in England remain wrapped in flammable cladding — and safety rules are little changed.
Tag: Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
Special Incentive for Property Buyers: A Foreign Passport
Analysts estimate that offers of visas and passports drive more than $20 billion a year in investments.
Looking for Your Own Front Door in London? Consider a Mews.
Typically two or three-story structures that once served as stables or garages, mews homes are generally holding their value in uncertain times.
Making an Alpine Holiday Home Their Permanent Homestead
Philip and Mary Ellen Röntgen moved for good from New York to a farmhouse in the Swiss Alps that they had used for vacations for 22 years.
In Stockholm, a Turn to Sharing Homes
Amid a decades-long housing shortage, a former hotel is now home to 50 people, ranging in age from 21 to 54.
In China, a $30,000 Penalty for Maligning a Building’s Feng Shui
A blogger warned of “heart-piercing” and “noxious” energy at a Beijing building. A Chinese court disagreed.
Looking for a Place in the Sun? How About an Abandoned Spanish Village
The going rate for a ruined hamlet is about 100,000 euros. A couple of million will buy a medieval settlement with its own fortress.
After a Dip, Hong Kong Real Estate Again Eyes the Stratosphere
Signs suggest that a monthslong slump in the world’s most unaffordable property market is ending.
In Greece, an Economic Revival Fueled by ‘Golden Visas’ and Tourism
Less than a year after the country ended a multibillion-euro international bailout, property buyers from China and Russia are helping to mend its economy.
Huawei Executive’s Life in Detention Seems Luxurious to Some Canadians
Many Canadians see the case of Meng Wanzhou, who can travel relatively freely with a GPS tracker, as an example of foreign money’s influence in Vancouver.