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Best city for living

June 16th, 2008

Copenhagen - the capital of Denmark - has been recognized the best city for a life by results of the research, lead by British magazine Monocle.
At selection in attention some parameters - from an opportunity to buy a glass of good wine at 2 a.m. up to quality of architecture and quantity of cinemas were accepted.
Monocle has highly estimated a compact lay-out of the city, convenient transport system, restaurants, and especially interest in environment protection. Last characteristic has also “put” the city on the first place from the second one, which it occupied in last year’s rating.
Copenhagen has also received a rank of “world capital of design”. The rank of business capital of the world has been given to Madrid, and Paris has been recognized the most cosmopolite city.
Berlin managed to get the glory of the most cultural city of the world, and Japanese Fukuoka became the best city for shopping.
It is necessary to note, that Moscow, New York and London have not entered into the twenty of the best cities.

Kournikova has legal proceedings with parents because of the house in Miami

June 15th, 2008

Parents of Russian divine Anna Kournikova have legal proceedings with the star daughter. The reason of dissonance in family relies in private residence in Miami, bought four years ago for $3,5 million.
Alla and Sergey Kournikovy apply for two thirds of house, which Anna shares with her boyfriend singer Enrique Iglesias.
Parents prove that when their daughter has bought this house at coast of Florida, she has promised them there. But, it looks like, Anna is not going to do this.
Rudolf Hovard, Anna’s parents’ lawyer, has noted that the father and mother speak, that being Anna’s manager and the promoter, they have initially divided this real estate into three parts.
According to British edition The Sun, Anna’s parents have decided to restore validity through court, which is to take place in the nearest future.
Anna and her parents have quarreled, when have ceased to work together. It is very sad, but the obstinacy and desire to go in all up to the end is their family feature.

The safest real estate market

June 9th, 2008

Cabo Verde real estate market has been named the safest real estate market among all markets of the real estate of developing countries.
Cabo Verde Republic (also Cape Verde Islands) - is the state on the same islands in Atlantic Ocean, which is in 620 kilometers from the western coast of Africa.
The report on maintenance of a high level of real estate transactions’ safety and observance of the rights of buyers in Cabo Verde Republic will be directed as the sample for imitation to the developing countries’ governments. The World Organization of economic cooperation and development has informed on it today.
Cabo Verde laws have no distinction between foreign and local investors, the state offers for all a high level of safety of transactions and observance of buyers’ rights.
Owing to it for last years foreign investments in Cabo Verde have significantly increased, the State is actively developing, last year growth of economy has made 6,6 %, the forecast for this year makes 7,6 %.

L&RP invests 230 million dollars in construction of three socially-business centers Hilton in cities of Russian Federation

June 9th, 2008

British investment fund London and Regional Properties (L&RP), which represents interests of company Hilton in Russia, invests about 230 million dollars in construction of three socially-business centers Hilton in Rostov-na-Donu, Omsk and Kazan.
Investments in socially-business centers in Omsk (four stars) and Rostov-on-Don (five stars) will make 200 million dollars. The Center in Kazan (three stars) will be smaller and its construction will require 30 million dollars. It is planned to realize these projects within three years.
In the long term the fund plans to construct hotels and business centers Hilton in all large cities of Russia. We shall remind, that earlier it was informed that in June 2007 company Hilton has signed agreement with L&RP and according to the agreement within the nearest 5-7 years Hilton together with the partner L&RP will open 25 hotels in Russia.

American woman has married Eiffel Tower

June 6th, 2008

The woman, who is mad about real estate objects, has married Eiffel Tower.
Erica La Tour Eiffel (La Tour Eiffel - “Tour d’Eiffel”) has sworn love, fidelity and fidelity to one of the main sights of Paris during wedding ceremony at presence of the invited friends.
Ex-militarian from American San Francisco has earlier fell earlier in love with immovable objects.
Bow was her first passion. She also likes Berlin Wall.
Earlier Erica was the heroine of a documentary television movie about target-love among women.

Brad Pitt becomes the designer of elite hotel in Dubai

June 3rd, 2008

Popular American actor Brad Pitt becomes the designer of ecologically safe hotel in Dubai.
Pitt is a member of architectural bureau Graft in Los Angeles, which has been chosen for preparation of the master-plan of the project including five-star hotel in Dubai on 800 numbers.
In the application for press Pitt has told, that acting is his career, and the architecture is his passion. As he said, details of the project will be disclosed within the nearest several months.

Real estate tax will be entered in Russia after 2010

May 28th, 2008

In 2010 the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economics will prepare the amendment in the Tax code, providing introduction of the tax to the real estate instead of ground and property taxes.
As it has become known from the message of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministries have already prepared the schedule of development of the corresponding chapter of the Tax code. The schedule provides that the project of amendments will be prepared by the Ministry of Finance of Russia together with Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Justice and brought in the government of the Russian Federation per 2010 for the subsequent direction in the State Duma.
Inclusion into the Tax code of the Russian Federation of the chapter, adjusting the taxation of the real estate, the tax to the real estate can be entered in those subjects of the Russian Federation, where the cadastral account of real estate objects is being carried out and results of cadastral estimation of objects of the real estate are approved.

English private residence of Madonna and Guy Ritchie is on sale for $24 million

May 25th, 2008

The radical American Madonna has never understood aspirations of her husband Guy Ritchie to live in London. While their disputes have led only to one result: Madonna lives and works in America, Guy Ritchie - in Britain. Say, that the family has even decided to share property and to terminate marriage. A first fact is that spouses have exposed one of the most expensive and magnificent English private residences on sale.
Madonna has exposed on sale an English private residence for $24 million. The house, which, according to British newspaper The Sun, is exposed on sale for 12 million pounds sterling (24 million dollars), is located in picturesque countryside Wiltshire, manor Ashcombe. The manor has been got by star couple in 2001 for 9 million pounds (18 million dollars).
The private residence, which is settling down on the area of 2 hectares, has 8 bedrooms and 2 sports halls. Earlier pop queen spent a lot of time in it, riding horses, shooting and arranging various parties. The singer has even celebrated her 47-th birthday.
The interior of the house is made in traditional English style.
Now if the singer comes with the children to Britain, she prefers to stop in the house, which is in the western part of London, near to which the center of the Kabbalah Center is located.

Real estate in Vancouver rises in price

May 19th, 2008

Real estate market of the largest Canadian city shows positive price dynamics, unusual on a background of the general recession, spreading almost in all Northern America.
Now the standard house for one family in Vancouver costs at least 750 thousand Canadian dollars ($774 thousand). In total since 2001 till 2007 the cost of the inhabited real estate in Vancouver has grown on 120 %.
Thus if last year the rise in prices has made 11 %, this year, under forecasts of the Canadian housing agency, it will make at least 8 %.
Canadian Hypothec Crediting Association senior analysts prove that they, of course, expect some changes in the market: the prices will grow all the same and more slowly, than earlier.
Experts name a developing economy of region and the low rate of unemployment, attracting here people not only from other areas of Canada, but also from the world, as the reasons of growth.

Rates of construction grow in Slovenia

May 17th, 2008

In comparison with February parameters, the total cost of being in stage of construction real estate objects in Slovenia has grown on 10,6 %.
The annual gain, which was compared to March of the last year, has made 8,4 %. Term of money cost of habitation adjusted for a quarter, has grown on 82,2 %, concerning an average level of eight-year prescription.
All this time in Slovenia volumes of buildings construction has most confidently increased on 98 %. The works above objects of a civil infrastructure are on the second a place: the rates of construction have grown on 76,8 %.

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