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02.03.26 - 13:01
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UK Mortgage Approvals At 2-Year Low (AFX)
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LONDON (dpa-AFX) - UK mortgage approvals declined to a two-year low in January, while consumer credit logged a faster increase, data from the Bank of England showed Monday. Net mortgage approvals ......
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02.03.26 - 11:24
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UK house prices rise in February as chancellor avoids ′negative speculation′ (The Guardian)
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Rachel Reeves' upcoming spring forecast has not led to slowdown, as property tax rumours did in NovemberBusiness live – latest updatesUK politics live – latest updatesHouse prices in the UK increased in February as Rachel Reeves avoided a repeat of the pre-budget “negative speculation” that depressed the market, as she prepares to present the spring forecast on Tuesday.The average price of a home rose to £273,176 last month, up 0.3% from the month before, Nationwide said. It matched January's monthly increase, and was above analysts' forecasts of a 0.2% gain. The annual growth rate remained steady at 1%, the country's biggest building society said. Continue reading......
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02.03.26 - 01:36
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Hong Kong luxury real estate: how a European agent won US$30.45 million penthouse listing (SCMP)
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Minna Honkanen could not have anticipated the seismic events that would grip Hong Kong after she decided to try her luck there in early 2019.
Two months after she arrived, unprecedented social unrest engulfed the city, followed immediately by the coronavirus pandemic, which shut borders and restricted travel for more than two years.
Least of all did the Finnish national imagine she would become a luxury property agent in one of the world's most expensive real estate markets, securing exclusive......
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01.03.26 - 20:42
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Lone-Wolf Terror? Senegal-Born Shooter Wearing "Property Of Allah" Shirt Kills 3, Wounds 14 At Austin Bar (ZeroHedge)
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Lone-Wolf Terror? Senegal-Born Shooter Wearing "Property Of Allah" Shirt Kills 3, Wounds 14 At Austin Bar
Shocking new details are emerging about 12 hours after the horrific mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar early Sunday, with New York Post sources indicating that the deceased shooting suspect, Ndiaga Diagne, a U.S. citizen born in Senegal and living in Texas, allegedly carried out the attack that left three people dead and 14 injured including three in critical condition, with federal agents examining whether the attack was potentially motivated by US-Iran conflict.
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis told reporters that officers arrived at Buford's bar, a popular beer garden on West Sixth Street in the downtown metro area.
The early investigation shows that Diagne circled the block around the bar several times in an SUV before the shooting, Davis said at a news conference.
BREAKING: @FoxNews has obtained a photo of the Austin, TX mass shooter, armed & wearing a sweater tha...
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01.03.26 - 14:12
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How Sweden′s Housing Factories Could Fix US Home Prices (Bloomberg)
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Home prices have doubled over the past decade, first-time buyers are older than ever, and housing affordability has become a political flashpoint on both sides of the Atlantic. With construction productivity stagnant for decades, policymakers and investors are looking abroad to Sweden, where factory-built modular housing is far more common, to see whether rethinking how homes are built could lower costs, boost supply, and reshape the economics of housing. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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01.03.26 - 13:06
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China Resources subsidiary acquires Hong Kong hotel for student housing project (SCMP)
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A subsidiary of state-owned conglomerate China Resources (Holdings) has acquired a Hong Kong hotel and plans to convert it into student housing amid a wave of investments driven by rising demand after the city raised the cap on non-local students.
CR Longdation signed an agreement to buy four-star hotel Hotel Cozi Oasis in Kwai Chung, a major industrial and residential area in the southwestern New Territories, for HK$953 million (US$122 million), said Colliers and Knight Frank, which advised on......
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28.02.26 - 11:12
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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. (The Guardian)
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Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the 'most hopeful person' before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbotOn 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several hours – had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.Fox couldn't believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal – he was the “most hopeful person” she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: “I'm great!” to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK. Continue reading......
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