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Angelina Jolie Gave Brad Pitt a Waterfall for His Birthday

It pays to be the number 1 golden couple in showbiz: Angelina Jolie gave Brad Pitt for his birthday and Christmas a waterfall. Now, he can build a house on top of it, just like he's always dreamed to do, a new report in the Daily Mail claims. According to the British tab, Brad, who is truly passionate about arch...

3 January 2012
07:29 GMT

Adele to Move Out of London to Protect Her Voice

A little over two months ago, Adele went under the knife for micro-surgery on her vocal chords, after a year of vocal issues and canceled appearances. Now, she's looking at real estate outside London after being told pollution could damage her voice, it has emerged. As we also noted on various previous occasio...

19 December 2011
14:31 GMT

ABC Cancels 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'

All good things come to an end, and it seems this also applies to ABC's long-running Emmy-winning series “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Come January, ABC will air the finale episode of the show. Confirmation of this comes via E! Online, with interior designer Michael Moloney saying he never exp...

17 December 2011
04:28 GMT

'The Cloud' in Seoul, Inspired by the Flaming World Trade Center Towers

A new project that will be completed in Seoul by 2015 seems to have drawn for inspiration on one of the most unfortunate tragedies in modern history: the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in NYC on September 11, 2001. Called “The Cloud” and designed by architecture firm MVRDV as part of the l...

12 December 2011
13:31 GMT

Architect Creates the ‘Earthscraper,’ Going 300m (984ft) Below Ground

Architect Esteban Suarez has come up with a solution to the current problem for building space in Mexico City and it doesn’t even imply tearing down historical landmarks – because it’s completely underground. If the Earthscraper is ever made, it will be the one building in the world to go this deep ...

13 October 2011
15:51 GMT

Video Emerges of Nadya Suleman’s Thrashed House

Nadya Suleman has certainly had more than a fair share of money problems, but those expecting her to have learned her lesson are about to be disappointed. After failing to pay the mortgage for the past 3 months, Octomom wants to sell the La Habra house she and her 14 kids have been living in. However, she wants to se...

23 September 2011
06:21 GMT

Clinton Global Initiative Commits to Greener Commercial Buildings

A three-year project that promises to reduce energy use, create jobs, and provide significant savings for the commercial real estate sector by boosting the market for energy-efficient commercial tenant space has been announced at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative event.Tenants who are signing or renewing le...

21 September 2011
09:48 GMT

Charlie Sheen Buys Denise Richards a House, She Turns It Down

While trying to maintain a healthy relationship with her ex-husband Charlie Sheen for the sake of their children, Denise Richards also wants to make sure she doesn’t take a wrong step – so she refused Charlie’s generous present of a new house. A new report in the Huffington Post claims that Sheen wa...

1 September 2011
16:41 GMT

Justin Bieber’s 17th Birthday Present: $1.7 Million Condo

It pays to be Justin Bieber, aka the most popular, therefore richest, teen in the world. For his upcoming birthday, when The Biebs turns 17, his mother and grandmother have the perfect gift: a brand new apartment.TMZ reports that the two have been scouting LA for the perfect condo to buy the singer and they have alre...

11 February 2011
15:51 GMT

Yahoo Completes Real Estate Outsourcing to Zillow

Yahoo and Zillow have completed their announced deal for the latter to power all listings on Yahoo Real Estate. While the plan was revealed six months ago, it took the two companies this long to implement it. At this point, all for-sale listings on Yahoo come from Zillow. The company will handle the local real-estate...

4 February 2011
04:55 GMT

Google Gives Up on Real Estate Search and Listings in Maps

Google has announced that it will be retiring one the more ambitious undertakings in Google Maps, real estate listings and search. The feature was offered in several countries and it enabled users to find places for sale or rent in an area they were interested in.Despite pulling data from several sources and providin...

27 January 2011
10:29 GMT

Nadya Suleman’s Neighbors Say Living Next to Her Is ‘Hell’

Nadya Suleman, dubbed OctoMom by the media, is again at the center of a controversy: her neighbors in La Habra, California, are complaining to the media about the terrible noise that her 14 children are making at all hours of the day – and night. People in the cul-de-sac where Suleman bought her 4-bedroom house...

25 January 2011
04:39 GMT

Derek Hough Buys LA ‘Love Nest’ for Cheryl Cole

Rumors about a possible romance between the Cheryl Cole and Derek Hough have been around for many months, roughly weeks after Cheryl filed for divorce from husband Ashley. Now, the two are about to be moving in together, it has emerged.Now Magazine reports that, in his bid to be super supportive of Cheryl, profession...

20 January 2011
08:59 GMT

Neverland to Be Turned into Music Institute

Neverland, the place where the late King of Pop spent so many happy hours and to which he refused to return after the trials that ruined his career and reputation, has been restored to its former glory – and will be turned into a music institute. TMZ has learned that the former house of Michael Jackson has been...

21 December 2010
06:46 GMT

Lisa Marie Presley Sells Hollywood Home

Singer Lisa Marie Presley has made the final step towards settling in Britain for good, by selling her Hollywood mansion. The 8-bedroom compound sold for $5 million, it has emerged. Lisa, her husband and their beautiful twins have been living in England for quite some time now, with the singer once saying she’d...

6 December 2010
15:41 GMT

Hugh Hefner in Massive Debt, Considers Selling Playboy Mansion

Hugh Hefner, the man who literally made glamour modeling what it is today, has just 16 months to raise $115 million to cover a massive debt – and he’s considering selling the Mansion to get that money. According to a Wall Street analyst cited by the New York Post, Hef’s finances are really tangled, ...

11 November 2010
15:21 GMT

David and Victoria Beckham Sell £18 Million Beckinham Palace

David and Victoria Beckham purchased a 7-bedroom mansion in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, dubbed the Beckinham Palace, in 1999 – but they’re now having it appraised in the hope of selling it. The celebrity couple is looking at unloading the property in the hope of looking for a brand new home in what has...

6 September 2010
15:31 GMT

World’s Most Expensive Apartment Sells for £140 Million

Bringing new meaning to the term “luxury property,” a two-storey apartment in London has just been sold for the record amount of £140 million, which literally makes it the most expensive real estate in the world. They say recession is still very much felt – but clearly the same doesn’t a...

11 August 2010
16:11 GMT

Katie Price Buys £2 Million Country House

Because the first time she got married to cagefighter Alex Reid, the ceremony took place in a rush in Las Vegas, Katie Price is looking to make the second time more memorable – both for her guests and for audiences at home, because the entire thing will be shot on film for a segment of her reality show. To prep...

23 June 2010
14:41 GMT

Search for Your New Home with Google Maps Real-Estate Listings in the UK

Google is very happy to give out its products for free, but it never does so without the potential for revenue in there somewhere. Google Maps is a great tool for a lot of things and the best thing about it is that it’s free. And now, in the UK at least, it has gotten even better with the addition of real-estat...

17 June 2010
09:49 GMT

Inside Jesse James’ $7 Million Beachfront Mansion

Reports earlier this week claimed Jesse James was thinking of moving to New Orleans to be closer to Sandra Bullock and thus play an active part in the life of the boy he was supposed to adopt with the actress, Louis. Whether that’s accurate or not is unknown, but the star is putting his beachfront home in Orang...

28 May 2010
13:31 GMT

Brad Pitt’s Acquisition of New ‘Bachelor Pad’ Was Planned

Earlier this week, after rumor broke that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, once Hollywood’s most powerful couple, had ended their relationship, even seeing a divorce attorney to make matters easier, word also got out that he was already moving on by purchasing a new home in the Hollywood Hills. Far from being his ...

28 January 2010
13:21 GMT

Brad Pitt Buys Bachelor Pad to Get Over Angelina

As sources close to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continue to deny that the two have called it quits and are taking the necessary steps to continue their lives separately, the British media is telling an entirely different story. Pitt’s mother is preparing to come to his aid but, at the same time, Brad himself i...

26 January 2010
05:00 GMT

Google Increasingly Interested in the Real-Estate Market

Google is opening up its, rather full, wallets again and has started acquiring new companies at an accelerated pace. It now seems that the company is looking to buy about one or two small companies every month, certainly an increase even over its best previous records. For a company with a market cap of $184 billion...

18 January 2010
06:49 GMT

Google Maps Gets a Real-Estate Layer

Over the summer, Google introduced the Real Estate listing to Google Maps and, since then, it has been working on improving the feature. When it was first introduced, it proved somewhat useful, but it was still lacking and couldn't really be seen as a real alternative to real-estate search engines. But Google d...

30 October 2009
12:32 GMT

Natalie Portman Buys $3m, 1930s-Era House

Last year, Hollywood star and budding filmmaker Natalie Portman sold her Manhattan condo for an estimated $7 million. She is now ready to move to one of the most beautiful and secluded enclaves in Los Angeles, having just purchased a 1930s-era house that suits her personality and stylish tastes exquisitely, as Just J...

3 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Gwyneth Paltrow Expands Next Door with 33-Room Superhouse

The latest celebrities to expand their homes by buying the house next door and then combining the two in one super-mansion are Madonna and Jamie Olivier. Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Chris Martin have also followed on their lead by expanding next door in order to create a superhouse, in their case cou...

24 August 2009
08:50 GMT

Hugh Hefner Sells Mansion

The “greatest house ever,” as TMZ calls it, has just been sold. Hugh Hefner unloaded his personal mansion, situated right next to the iconic Playboy Mansion, for a cool $18 million, in a bid to cut down on the losses suffered recently. Listed since early March for over $29 million, the impressive estate h...

3 August 2009
10:01 GMT

Google Maps Turns to Real Estate

Google Maps and Google Earth are two of the Mountain View company products that can provide users with a number of useful tools, meant to solve their everyday problems. Since its release in early 2005, Google Maps has received some important new features and upgrades. At this point in time, Google Maps can be used to...

14 May 2008
05:22 GMT

Corruption Takes Over the Moscow Planetarium

The Moscow Planetarium was first opened in 1929 and has represented for many years a landmark for star gazers in the Soviet Union. In 1994, it was closed for repairs and 14 years later the Planetarium is still waiting to be re-open. However, last Wednesday, something extremely interesting happened. According to Igor ...

31 March 2008
10:58 GMT

A Free Multilingual Real Estate Website

The real estate industry represents the most profitable direction of services development. The traditional marketing methods in real estate have changed in favor of those Internet based. As a consequence any real estate firm or agency must have one more web site, that will permit them to survive to the present concu...

15 November 2007
14:02 GMT

Sell or Buy Properties

One of the best ways to promote your business if you have a real estate agency is to have a website for your future clients to easily see your offer. Let's say that an important businessman wants to stay for a longer period in your town. He doesn't have time to come to your agency personally, but he will lo...

5 October 2007
10:55 GMT

Instant Creation of a Real Estate Website with Joomla

There is a lot of commercial software designed for the management of the real estate listings. Joomla is an open source content management system that could provide you with a professional solution for publishing real estate listings. First, you will need a domain name and a web hosting where you must install Joomla....

17 August 2007
12:16 GMT

JPR Predicts an Explosive Virtual Goods Market (Add-Ons)

The latest news says that Ted Pollak, JPR Senior Analyst Game Industry, has come up with a revenue forecast for the virtual goods market covering the United States, South Korea and Worldwide for the years 2007 - 2012. He reckons this will be one of the hottest revenue growth sectors of the video game industry so far....

19 June 2007
04:37 GMT

RealPIX Digital Camera For Real Estate Agents

If you work in real estate, you probably know that a picture from a house listing is really worth more than a thousand words. Bad pictures can turn your buyers off, while good photos will grab people's attention and help you sell a home faster. Here's something that might catch your attention. The RealPIX c...

12 April 2007
07:03 GMT


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