Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Drew Barrymore has listed her lavish Hamptons home, which was converted from a 1920 barn, for an eye-watering $8.45 million. The 49-year-old movie star acquired the sprawling property in Sagaponack, New York in 2019 and was thought to have paid $5.5 million. She has since embarked on a renovation of the 1.7-acre estate, which is located in an area lush with trees and gardens less than a mile from the beach. Along with the main house, which boasts seven bedrooms and five bathrooms, the spread also includes a one-bedroom one-bathroom guesthouse. Out in the backyard, the new owners will be able to enjoy the delights of a gunite-bordered swimming pool as well as such athletic amenities as a...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Beijing has announced 300 billion-yuan (US$41.5 billion) in funding to help clear excess housing inventory, as well as measures to ensure developers have access to financing and to encourage the repurchase of “idle” land, as China embarks on its most ambitious effort yet to rescue the property sector and shore up the broader economy. The “relending” ခွင့်ပြုပေး funds will enable local state-owned enterprises to buy unsold homes they can then offer as affordable housing, top officials told a media briefing on Friday afternoon. They will be offered to 21 national lenders, from policy banks to state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
The last piece of privately-owned land in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard is up for sale for a cool 300 million euros ($324 million). Spanning 14,830 acres (23.2 square miles), the land has “significant environmental, scientific and economic importance,” according to a listing from agent Knight Frank. The archipelago is located between mainland Norway and the North Pole, and has taken on greater geopolitical importance as the sea ice melts, opening new shipping routes and increasing its strategic value. (The Arctic is of increasing geopolitical importance as climate change melts sea ice. Knight Frank) “Considering the geopolitical and strategical...
Local Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] အစိုးရနှင့်ပုဂ္ဂလိက နှစ်ခုစလုံးမှ ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်တောင်ပိုင်းမြို့နယ်တွင် အိမ်ရာစီမံကိန်းများ ဆက်တိုက်ဆောက်လုပ်နေရာ မြို့နယ်တွင်း ယခင်ရှိပြီးသား အိမ်ခြံမြေကွက်များ ဈေးမြင့်တက်လာကြောင်း ရွှေမင်းသားအကျိုးဆောင်လုပ်ငန်းမှ သိရသည်။ “...
Local Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
[Unicode] နေပြည်တော်အိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးကွက် အတွင်း သိန်းတစ်ထောင်ဝန်းကျင် အိမ်ခြံမြေများအရောင်းအဝယ်ကောင်းနေကြောင်း ဒေသခံအကျိုးဆောင်များထံမှ သိရသည်။ ဈေးအမြင့်ပိုင်း ရှိသော အိမ်ခြံမြေများထက် သိန်းတစ်ထောင် မှ သိန်းနှစ်ထောင်ဝန်းကျင်တန်ဖိုးရှိသော ...
Local Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] ရန်ကုန်တိုက်ခန်းဈေးကွက်အတွင်း ဆောက်လုပ်ပြီး မီနီကွန်ဒိုနှင့် ကွန်ဒိုတိုက်ခန်းများ ရောင်းချမှု မြင့်တက်နေကြောင်း အိမ်ခြံမြေအကျိုးဆောင်များထံမှ သိရသည်။ ကန်ထရိုက်တိုက်ခန်း အသစ်ဆောက်လုပ်မှုမှာ လျော့ကျနေပြီး ကွန်ဒို နှင့် မီနီကွန်ဒို...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Johnny Depp is looking at buying a $4 million historic castle in Montalto Dora, Italy, according to local reports. Depp, 60, has largely been living and making movies in Europe since his 2022 defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard. While directing a biopic about artist Amedeo Modigliani, Depp toured the ancient fortress perched on the hills of Mount Crovero in Turin, according to newspaper Corriere delle Sera. (Johnny Depp has reportedly looked to buy a $4 million castle in Italy. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP) (Depp is said to have toured a castle in Montalto Dora. amorando – stock.adobe.com) Sources told The Post actor Riccardo...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
A historic and sprawling Spanish-mission-style building that functioned as a working hospital in Montana until the 1940s is on the market for just $10. But if that seems too good to be true, it is. The old hospital building, featuring three floors and over 16,000 square feet, may be for sale — but the land it sits on is not. (The Spanish-mission-style building that functioned as a working hospital is now on the market for just $10. Performance real estate) The buyer would need to move the medical facility off the property and relocate it somewhere else, according to its real estate listing. To sweeten the unusual deal, the seller is offering up to...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
If you’ve got £363 million burning a hole in your pocket, we may have found the house just for you. That’s the price of Château d’Armainvilliers, the world’s most expensive home, which has just gone on sale. The sprawling mansion is in Seine-et-Marne, around 25 miles from the centre of Paris, France. So what do you get for your cash? 100 rooms across 2,500 square metres of living space, and 1,000 hectares of land – including a private lake. Built upon the foundations of a 12th century castle, the Rothschild banking empire bought it in the late 19th century before it was bought by King Hassan II of Morocco in the 1980s. He made a host of...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Bill Gates is back in the news, not for buying land, a hotel or home but for selling one. The centibillionaire has found a buyer for his 1954 Modern home in the Seattle suburb of Medina. The 2,400-square-foot property is next to his marvelous 66,000-square-foot Xanadu 2.0 estate and is a much humbler abode. (Via Instagram / @topclosings.) The four-bedroom, three-bath dwelling in Medina was listed for $5 million, and last changed hands in 2003 for $1,310,000, records show. The house was snapped after spending less than two weeks on listings which could be owing to the Bill Gates name or the fact that you get to live in close proximity to the tech tycoon worth $131...