Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Once envisioned as a luxurious lakeside palace, Canada’s largest home now sits abandoned, with broken windows and unfinished floors serving as eerie reminders of what could have been. The Peter Grant mansion, sprawling across 65,000 square feet on the shores of Lake Temiskaming in Ontario, has been left to rot for more than 15 years. The once-grand estate was the brainchild of Peter Grant, the former president of Grant Forest Products, who dreamed of creating an opulent retreat. (Once owned by forestry magnate Peter Grant, the home was designed with features like a subterranean boathouse, a golf course and an art gallery.Shutterstock / Freaktography) (However,...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
A 37-year-old construction worker was fined S$400 on Thursday (Sept 19) for defecating at the entrance of The Shoppes mall at Marina Bay Sands last year. Appearing in court, Ramu Chinnarasa who is from India pleaded guilty to one charge under the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations. An image of him committing the act went viral on Facebook last October, garnering more than 1,500 likes, 1,700 comments and 4,700 shares in about two days. Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Adelle Tai said that the incident took place on Oct 30 last year. Before that, Ramu had drunk three bottles of hard liquor and was gambling inside the Marina Bay Sands casino. At about 5am, he left...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
A GROUP of teenagers who devoted hundreds of hours to building a treehouse have blasted their jobsworth council for labelling it as "criminal damage" and tearing it down. The excited pals started constructing the den in a woodland area in Maidstone, Kent, at the end of May. (Around 15 teenagers helped build the den in woods.Credit: SWNS) (But they were left devastated after it was ordered to be ripped apart.Credit: SWNS) (They were branded criminals with the community slamming the council.Credit: SWNS) The idea was to create a new place to hang out together - with parents saying the project helped keep their kids away from the Xbox and...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Billionaire Larry Ellison scooped up a luxury 309-room waterfront resort just south of Palm Beach, boosting a real estate empire that stretches from the East Coast to Hawaii. Ellison — one of the world’s richest men with an estimated $162 billion net worth, according to Forbes — purchased the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan, a 1950s-era property that was a playground for Fords, Roosevelts and Vanderbilts. The Oracle co-founder snagged the property for an undisclosed price from the Lewis Trust group, which has owned the resort since 2003, the company said Friday. (Oracle co-founder and billionaire Larry Ellison (above) has purchased Eau Palm Beach Resort...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] ခရီးသွားခြင်းက ဘာလို့အရေးကြီးတာလဲ ဘာကြောင့် ခရီးသွားခြင်းရဲ့အကျိုးကျေးဇူးတွေရှိသလဲဆိုတဲ့ ဆောင်းပါးရေးရတာနည်းနည်းတော့ ထူးဆန်းပါတယ်။ ခရီးသွားခြင်းက တစ်ခါတစ်လေမှာ ကျန်းမာရေး အသက်အန္တာရာယ်အတွက် risks ယူရမယ့်အခြေအနေမျိုးရှိနေဦးမှာပါ။...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
An abandoned Boeing 737 has been transformed into a stunning holiday rental that’s perched on a 150m- (492ft) high cliff near Nyang Nyang beach in Bali, Indonesia. Renderings reveal some of the rental's eye-catching features, which include a swimming pool and a glass-edged walkway on the wing of the plane, which is partially cantilevered over the cliff edge. Called ‘Private Jet Villa by Hanging Gardens Air’, the unique rental is something to save up for - it’s priced at £6,000 ($7,280) per night on Booking.com. (An abandoned Boeing 737 has been transformed into a stunning holiday rental, shown in the rendering above, on a cliff near Nyang...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] Ban Rak Thai Village ရွာလေးက ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံက အလှဆုံးရွာလေး အဖြစ်တင်စားခြင်းခံရလောက်တဲ့ အထိကို အရမ်းကိုလှပတာပါ။ ထိုင်း- တရုတ် စတိုလ် ရွာလေးက ချင်းမိုင်ကနေ ကီလိုမီတာ ၂၅၀၊ မဲ့ဟောင်ဆော် ကနေ ကီလိုမီတာ ၄၀ မှာ ရှိတယ်။ ရွာလေးကို Mae-Aw လို့လည်း...
Local Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ ခရီးသွားများ ကိုဗစ်အလွန်တွင် ကော့သောင်းမြို့နယ်ရှိ မလိဝမ်း သဘာ၀ရေတံခွန်နှင့် သဘာ၀ရေပူစမ်း သို့ လာရောက်လည်ပတ်နိုင်ရန်စီစဉ်ထားကြောင်း နိုင်ငံပိုင်သတင်းစာအရ သိရသည်။ မလိဝမ်း သဘာ၀ရေတံခွန်နှင့် သဘာ၀ရေပူစမ်းသို့ သွားလိုပါက...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Just Room Enough Island, is an aptly-named private-owned island with literally just enough room for its owners’ house, a couple of trees and a miniature beach with a pair of bench chairs.Part of the Thousand Islands archipelago on the border between the U.S. and Canada, Just Room Enough Island measures about 3,300 square feet (310 m2), which makes it the world’s smallest inhabited island. It was purchased by the Sizeland family in the 1950s, as a comfortable retreat, but they never expected it to become an internationally-recognized tourist attraction. Ironically, even though the Sizeland family probably never intended for their vacation home to become so famous, they had a...
Local Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
### Zawgyi Version ### မႏၱေလးျမိဳ႕ တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္အေကာင္ထည္ေဖာ္ေနသည့္ WATERBOOM စီမံကိန္းကုိ ၂၀၁၉ ခုနွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလကုန္တြင္ စတင္ဖြင့္လွစ္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း UMG ကုမၸဏီဥကၠဌေဒၚမာလာ၀င္းကေျပာၾကားသည္။ အဆိုပါစီမံကိန္းကုိ ရဲရြာေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္း သြားလာရာလမ္း ၆ မိုင္ခြဲတြင္...