Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide. The vast majority of these cities — 83 — were in India and all exceeded the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines by more than 10 times, according to the report by IQAir, which tracks air quality worldwide. The study looked specifically at fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which is the tiniest pollutant but also the most dangerous. Only 9% of more than 7,800 cities analyzed globally recorded air quality that...
Local Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] ဒလတံတားသစ်စီမံကိန်း သည် ၂၀၂၅ ခုနှစ် အလယ်ပိုင်းတွင် ပြီးစီးဖွင့်လှစ်မည်ဖြစ်ရာ ဒလဘက်ကမ်းရှိ အိမ်ခြံမြေ စီမံကိန်းသစ် များ စတင်အကောင်အထည်ဖေါ်တည်ဆောက်လာ ကြောင်း ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းရှင်များထံမှ သိရသည်။ ရန်ကုန်မြို့တစ်ဘက်ကမ်း ဒလဘက်အခြမ်းရှိ...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
The San Francisco Bay’s only private island lacks water and electricity, but remains holding out for a buyer willing to pay big for the honor of owning it. Known as Red Rock Island, the spit of land hit the market in November with a price tag of $25 million. Spanning approximately 6 acres, the domed outcropping off San Francisco’s Richmond-San Rafael Bridge offers panoramic bay views from its top, and is only accessible by boat or helicopter. It features steep cliffs, a rocky shoreline and a smattering of plant life, but the seller, Brock Durning, hopes he can score a big payout on the basis of it being a trophy property. “We believe this is like owning a Leonardo da...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
A callous daughter and her husband who put her elderly father in a care home, sold his house and plundered his life savings of £50,000, were jailed for three years and three months. Fherisia Dougall and her husband David were both convicted of fraud on Friday after her father died in a care home where he had been abandoned. The case had been started at crown court in January 2020 but was adjourned when the defence applied to have the jury dismissed. Cecil died in June 2022 before the hearing resumed. Fherisia Dougall, 57, and her husband, David Dougall, 59, trapped elderly Mr Coetzee in their home in Milton Keynes, Bucks, after convincing him that he should move in with...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
One lucky buyer will have the opportunity to own an entire Texas ghost town for the bargain price of $100,000. A man named Alexander Bardorff purchased the 10-acre town of Lobo along with a few buddies in 2001 for $20,000. Bardorff said more than 70 people have already descended there in hopes of making the purchase. He’s sat under the canopy of the deserted gas station in town and heard from each person who made the trek to this corner of West Texas — each pitching a vision for its future. Bardorff, who was born in Germany, said the sale was not about money, but rather about finding someone who “understands how special the land they fell in love with...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
In September 1933, a humble wooden hut on a secluded Norfolk heath became the improbable location of one of the most important hideouts in history. Nearly a century later, the rarely told story of the three weeks Albert Einstein spent holed up in a heathland bothy, on the run from Nazi assassins, has been turned into an unusual type of docudrama. Netflix’s Einstein and the Bomb will shine a light on how the celebrated German Jewish scientist’s brief sojourn on Roughton Heath came at a crossroads in his life – and, consequently, changed the course of history. “It was only as we looked closer that we realised quite what a seismic moment in his life it was,”...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
When Shannon Lane’s rent increased from £950 to £1,020 per month, and the landlord allegedly suggested adding another tenant to the one-bed home, she knew it was time to check out other options. But a stroll along the London canals made her consider an alternative way of living. The 28-year-old freelance producer came across a ‘For Sale’ sign on a narrowboat and fell in love with the idea. Shannon, who is from Buckinghamshire, UK, said: ‘I was living in a flat in Clapton, and my rent was around £950 a month for one room. The landlord wanted it to raise that price by around £70 and put somebody else into the flat. ‘They wanted to...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
It's the type of scenario that would leave many Western parents in a panic. But even though it might be past 6 p.m. and dark, James and Morgan Ould aren't worried that their 11-year-old daughter, Lillian, will be riding a public bus home from school. The British couple, who moved to Tokyo from England in 2022, have a relatively relaxed attitude to the comings and goings of Lillian and her 7-year-old sister, Esme. Their father told Business Insider that it was a case of "when in Rome." Japanese parents, he said, are happy for their kids to walk — often longdistances — to school or ride the train alone. "You see 5- and 6-year-olds walking to school by themselves," Ould said....
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
In 2018, my friend sent me a listing for Cerro Gordo, an abandoned mining town in California. "This might be your next project," he joked. The idea of a remote town in the American West was very alluring to me. It reminded me of the old TV westerns my grandfather watched every day. I was running a pretty popular bed and breakfast in Austin, but it felt like I was just searching for something to shake me up from the routine monotony. Buying this ghost town has done that. It cost $1.4 million — more than half was a loan from a hard money lender. The rest was mostly split between my friend and me, but a few other friends also chipped in. On the surface, you understand it's going to...
Local Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
[Unicode] အိမ်ခန်းပေါင်း (၄၄၈)ခန်းပါဝင်တဲ့ နေပြည်တော် သုခဝတီအငှားပြည်သူ့အိမ်ရာ စီမံကိန်း ရာနှုန်းပြည့်ပြီးစီးသွားပြီဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် လာရောက်လျှောက်ထားသူတွေကို နေရာချထားပေးဖို့ စီစဉ်နေတယ်လို့ ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး...