The latest weapon in the luxury high-rise arms race: a private pool in every unit on every floor.At ONE KL, a 35-story luxury building in Kuala Lumpur completed in 2009, the building’s tagline boasts, “94 Apartments, 95 Swimming Pools.” In the Bahamas, each of the 34 units at Honeycomb, a condominium with a hexagonal-patterned facade …
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Housing market: South Florida prices cooling, but that’s a good thing
South Florida home prices soared from 2000 to 2005, then plunged during the next six years before quickly bouncing off the bottom. But the market’s mood swings appear to be over, analysts say. Housing settled into a more reliable investment in 2014, even as double-digit price gains disappeared. Expect the market to slowly strengthen in …
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Residential building boom going strong in downtown St. Petersburg
Construction cranes will remain a part of the downtown landscape well into next year as one of the biggest residential building booms in this city’s history keeps going strong. Developers say their bet on St. Petersburg as an ideal spot for urban dwellers is paying off. Four apartment buildings have begun opening in the past …
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Jeanne Gang Chicago tower would be biggest downtown condo project since 2007
Condominium developers in downtown Chicago have thought small since the bust, but the builders behind the planned 88-story riverside tower designed by Jeanne Gang are thinking big—really big. With 390 condos, the $900 million high-rise in the Lakeshore East development would be the largest downtown for-sale residential project in seven years. The building would also …
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Brooklyn vs. Oakland: once affordable alternatives, less affordable than ever
Though we sometimes forget in our seven by seven microcosm, San Francisco is not the only city with prohibitively expensive housing. In fact, according to Bloomberg, 20% of all U.S. housing markets are “now less affordable than their historic average as price gains outpace income growth from New York to San Francisco.” The most unaffordable …
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Construction for seniors is surging in metro Denver
Balfour at Riverfront Park markets a resort-like lifestyle to seniors near the former Moffat Depot, a few blocks from the beating heart of Denver’s cultural and club scene. “Nobody else is doing this. We believe this is the finest senior living community in the country,” said Michael Schonbrun, founder and CEO of Balfour Senior Living …
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