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HOUSING developer David Wilson Homes Southern has announced it will invest more than £10 million in the Basingstoke area via developer contributions . The investment relates to two developments the firm has in the town, which together are expected to underpin around 2,500 jobs. The developer contributions money will be invested via Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council and associated planning agreements, with the final payment to be made before construction is completed. Overall £5m will be spent on improving local education , more than £3m on improving the town’s transportation system and nearly £2m will be put towards open spaces and community facilities. An additional £60,000 will be invested into public art. David Wilson Homes Southern has two developments in Basingstoke, Spiers Meadow on Carter Drive and Gilles Meadow on Park Prewett Road , which combined will bring 625 new homes to the area. Gillies Meadow will consist of a mix of two to five bedroom properties, whilst Spi...

A decade after the crash, Shannon Valley housing estate , on the outskirts of Ballaghaderreen, in Co Roscommon, remains unfinished and partly in ruins. Although the number of “ unfinished housing developments ” has fallen sharply since 2010, Shannon Valley is one of hundreds that still dot the country. The Guls: ‘Every day I put rats in the bin’ Fatima Gul says her little brother, Yousaf, doesn’t like the rats. He jumps up on the sofa or the table in the living room when they come into the house. Their parents don’t allow Fatimar, who is 10, or her nine-year-old sister, Maryam, or Yousaf and his twin, Zohra, who are five, to play near the houses on the other side of their green. It’s too close to the rats and the rubble. Shannon Valley “ ghost estate ” outside Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. Photograph: Simon Carswell" height="349" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.3181475!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg" width="620...

Share this article: Apartments in the Los Angeles Arts District . Photo by John Schreiber The cost of renting one’s residence in Southern California has doubled in 17 years — a jump practically twice as fast as the overall cost of living, according to the regional Consumer Price Index . Since the turn of the century to July, this measurement of local rents is up 102 percent vs. a gain of 53 percent for the overall CPI for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, the Orange County Register reported Thursday . Nationwide, rent costs rose 72 percent in the same period. This local inflation gap — rental costs vs. the overall basket of goods and services — is growing, according to the Register. It took 19 years for rental costs to double, but overall inflation in the 1981- 2000 period rose by almost as much, up 82 percent. The CPI’s rent index is compiled from a constant survey of households about everyday expenses, including the largest component: housing...

Autumn Creek Apartments in East Amherst has been sold for $15.5 million to a group of investors who own other luxury apartment complexes in the region. The investors acquired the 228-unit community on North French Road , west of Transit Road. It was sold by an affiliate of Legacy Development, which developed the property several years ago. The buyers also own Windsong Place Apartments in Amherst, Renaissance Place Apartments in Amherst, Green Lake Apartments in Orchard Park and StoneGate of Clarence, a senior community. Autumn Creek Apartments consists of 48 one- bedroom apartments and 180 two- bedroom apartments . Bruce Wisbaum, a local developer who is among the investors who make up Autumn Creek Apartments LLC , said he was drawn by the property's large units, its buildings' layout and its location in a growing area that includes CrossPoint Business Park . "It's a very competitive environment to try to acquire apartments ," he said. The new owners are ma...

SOUTH BEND — The city's historic preservation agency Monday rejected a request by South Bend schools officials to demolish the old Marquette School building , a plan that has been in the works for years but has met with resistance from preservationists. The South Bend-St. Joseph County Historic Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the South Bend Community School Corp .'s request to demolish the 1937 building to create more outdoor space for the current Marquette Primary Montessori Academy . Elicia Feasel, the commission's executive director, recommended that the panel deny the request. In a report to the commission, she concluded that the school corporation had failed to prove the types of safety issues that would justify demolishing a local historic landmark . The commission agreed and voted 4-1 to deny the district's request for approval to demolish the building. Several members faulted the school corporation for building the new Marquette school in...

Bretton Hall is one of the buildings that was sold. ( Google Maps photo ) Progress and gentrification in Anywhere USA can often spell doom for low-income residents. Near the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, tenants worry about being pushed out. Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News reports : Three Cass Corridor apartment buildings near Little Caesars Arena are part of an $8. 1 million sale involving a mysterious buyer that has low-income residents of the apartments wondering if they will be pushed out of the homes as the project evolves, The Detroit News has learned. The buildings are one block west of the $862.9 million sports and entertainment complex opening in less than three weeks. For several years now, the arena complex has sparked multimillion-dollar sales of property in a neighborhood that’s been blighted for decades. The buildings, on the 400 block of Henry, contain about 95 units and were sold in a single $8.1 m...

Shares 355 By Amy Wenk and Maria Saporta As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on August 4, 2017 An Atlanta developer is planning an innovative co-working space along one of Atlanta’s most historic streets — a project that’s already lured high- profile investors including top Home Depot executives . Historic preservation developer Gene Kansas in front of the 135 Auburn Ave. building, which he and a group of investors have acquired to turn into a “Constellations” project on the second floor (Photo by Maria Saporta) Gene Kansas Commercial Real Estate plans to open Constellations, a $2 million project that will offer “culturally-inspired” workspace with the hope of bringing together great minds who care about making a difference in the city. It’s coming to the second floor of the circa-1910 former Southern School Book Depository at 135 Auburn Ave., a building that was designed by famed Atlanta architect Neel Reid . Constellations will replace the Southern Education Foundati...

CHEYENNE ­– An Oregon developer is looking to bring more subsidized apartments to the north side of the city. Commonwealth Development Corporation is pushing plans for a two-building, 41-unit development at 4306 Dell Range Blvd ., which is just east of College Drive and north of Dell Range. The project received approval Thursday night for a conditional use on the property from the Cheyenne Board of Adjustment. The development still needs to be rezoned and annexed into the city by the City Council, since the property is in a county pocket. The council’s Public Services Committee will hear testimony on those changes Tuesday. The introduction of the three-story complex comes on the heels of a debate over a larger income-restricted development about 2 miles away. Summit Housing Group got its rezoning request approved during Monday night’s City Council meeting for property east of Converse Avenue between Dell Range and Storey boulevards. Nearby homeowners had voiced their opposition ...

The Wine Institute estimates that nearly 24 million people visit the 4,653 wineries in California’s wine regions each year. That tourism's economic impact in the state, which last year totaled $57.6 billion, includes a robust hospitality and lodging market. While construction slowed a bit last year, there were 26 hotels with 2,204 rooms in the planning stages for northern California’s vineyard- rich Sonoma County , and 13 hotels with 1,621 rooms being planned for Napa Valley, according Atlas Hospitality Group ’s 2016 California Hotel Development Survey . Earlier this month, construction began on one of those establishments, the $24 million, 122- key Hotel Trio in Healdsburg, Calif., which CU Investors, its developer, expects to open next April. The 82,638-sf hotel, situated in the Sonoma wine country , will serve the Dry Creek, Russian River, and Alexander Valley areas (hence, the “trio”). It will be within walking distance of a host of wineries and have convenient access to hu...

The government’s national policy on housing will take into account the country’s urbanisation and urban migration. Myanmar's commercial capital will need 1. 07 million housing units by 2040 and the entire country will require an additional 4. 8 million units by then, according to an official from the Ministry of Construction. The whole country will need 4. 8 million housing units by 2040, based on the population growth rate between 1983 and 2014, said U Nway Hmu, deputy director of the Housing Development Division under the Ministry of Construction. 8 million housing units required by 2040" alt="image" style="border: 0px;" /> The deputy director made the re- marks during a presentation organised by the property website House . com.mm. According to the 1983 census, the national population was 35.29 million. It increased to 51.48 million in 2014, according to the 2014 census. Based on that population growth rate , Myanmar is expected to have 70.5...