Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
As Taylor Swift mania makes its way to the United Kingdom, we're taking a closer look at the luxurious £1,000-a-night hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland where the beloved popstar is residing. During Taylor's first-ever concert in the UK during The Eras Tour, the 34-year-old singer has been reported to be living in luxury as she stays in the famous Caledonian Edinburgh, Curio Collection by Hilton, formerly Waldorf Astoria. The grand celebrity hot spot has welcomed a number of famous faces in the past decade including Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and many more. And as the pop superstar drops a small fortune to stay in the five-star hotel, we're taking a look...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Google, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, and other tech giants spend millions on private security for their chief executives. It’s no surprise some of the world’s top tech executives earn millions in compensation each year — but it’s not all cash and stock rewards. (Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger — $228,700) (Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger is provided a car and security-trained driver, which cost $227,200 in 2023, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Gelsinger also receives $1,500 for residential security. ((Amazon CEO Andy Jassy —...
Local Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Ford is out here this week making a big deal out of its new office complex, which is reborn out of Detroit’s long-abandoned Michigan Central Station. Partly, this is because Ford is extremely proud of this achievement. It also feels like Ford probably needs to explain why it spent so much money on a building when no one wants to go into an office anymore. Almost 120 years later, Ford is still here, although the automotive industry is in yet another upheaval. Ford is celebrating by opening up a new ‘Culture And Tech Hub’ built out of the once derelict Michigan Central Station in Detroit. The abandoned 18-story building, and an adjacent building/campus,...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
The media mogul, 93, and Zhukova, 67, are thought to be holding their wedding ceremony at the vineyard of his imposing Bel Air estate, Moraga. High-powered guests including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft are arriving at Rupert Murdoch's wedding. Kraft arrived with his wife Dana Blumberg and posed for an impromptu couple's snap by the side of an access road after giving their car to valets. (Robert Kraft arrived at Rupert Murdoch's wedding with his wife Dana Blumberg) (News Corp chief executive Robert Thompson dutifully attended his boss' wedding with his wife Wang Ping, who arrived in an eye-catching yellow floral shirt over green...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Essential workers are couch-surfing on the edge of homelessness amid Australia’s worsening housing catastrophe. Nurses are among the everyday Australians terrified for their future and considering leaving their profession as they are left behind by the rising cost of renting a home. The alarming statements emerged from the first day of hearings at the nation’s first “People’s Commission” into the impact surging rental prices and a lack of affordable housing is having on tenants. Convened by national housing advocacy group Everybody’s Home the first day of the conference featured nurse Lou Housego, who said renting was “incredibly demeaning”...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
A realtor has offered a look inside an enormous 'dystopian' apartment building in China. Located in Qianjiang Century City in Hangzhou’s central business district, the building is called the Regent International, and offers a huge range of amenities to residents. This includes everything from gyms to supermarkets to swimming pools, and even things like hairdressers. It's up to the point that you might not even ever need to leave the building itself to get everything you need in your day-to-day life. The enormous building has space to accommodate up to 30,000 residents, though it currently houses a slightly lower number of 20,000. Still, that's a lot of people living in just one...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Muhammad Ali’s childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky, where the late boxing legend learned to throw a punch, has hit the market for $1.5 million. The pink-painted, two-bedroom house was home to Ali—back when he was still known as Cassius Clay—from 1947, when he was 5 years old, until 1961, according to Rusty Underwood and Donna Gail Mattox of Christie’s International Real Estate Bluegrass, who brought the home to the market earlier this week. Not only did Ali learn to box during his 14 years in residence, but also won his Olympic gold medal and turned pro. “This home is just like it was when we were boys,” Ali’s brother, Rahaman Ali, said in a...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
[Unicode] အင်္ဂလန်နိုင်ငံ၏ မြို့တော် လန်ဒန်၏ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီသည် အိမ်ရာမဲ့မိသားစု ရာပေါင်းများစွာကို လန်ဒန်မြို့တော်မှ ၂၄ နာရီအတွင်းထွက်ခွာရန် ပြီးခဲ့သော ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ရာဇသံပေးကာ နှင်ထုတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း The Guardian သတင်းဌာနက...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
A woman who took a chance on buying a property in the €1 scheme in Italy ended up spending thousands to transform it into her €450,000 (£384,000) dream home. Meredith Tabbone, 45, decided to bid on a one euro house on a ‘whim’, after her friend sent her an article about the scheme. The European house scheme means people across the world can buy homes for a single euro (around 85p), which is a far cry from the £724,780 average sold price for a property in London according to Zoopla. It’s not just the birthplace of pasta and pizza where the scheme is available; homes in France and Croatia have previously been put on the market for €1 or...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
A video shows a group of construction workers smashing up a driveway after the homeowner allegedly refused to pay for the work. The homeowner from Australia watched as the newly laid concrete was left pock-marked following the row last year. Tradesperson Jesse Crowe from Logan in Queensland took a pickaxe to the driveway after he and his team had laid it for the customer. Crowe had negotiated a fee of AU $6,000 (around US $4,012) for the job with the homeowner Viola. This consisted of laying a new surface on a driveway which was attached to the side of her home. Viola had initially paid AU $2,500 ($1670) for the work, but after getting a dispute with Crowe over the...