Get these $500 fixer-uppers — so long as you can read a Japanese construction manual. Japan is riddled with millions of vacant homes, called akiya, that local governments hope will sell for next to nothing. At last count, Japan’s Housing and Land survey found 8.49 million uninhabited dwellings in 2018 — a 3.2% increase in
Month: May 2021
The rent was too damn high — and now New Yorkers can live it up in nicer apartments. “This is a golden age to be a renter in the city right now,” said John Walkup, 47, co-founder of real estate data and analytics platform UrbanDigs. “You have a ton of inventory so you have great
Editor’s Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today’s must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) -Gold and silver are trading higher after both metals had a good Asian session. The yellow metal is 0.20% up trading
[embedded content] With fewer durable good making up GDP and workers no longer employed in traditional jobs, worries about coming inflation are probably over blown, said Macquarie Capital’s Head of Asian Strategy and Global Strategy Co-ordinator Viktor Shvets. Shvets spoke to Kitco on Friday from Hong Kong. “Today, 60% of private sector GDP in the
“High School Musical” star Zac Efron has officially broken up with Los Angeles for Down Under. Efron, who relocated to Byron Bay in New South Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic, just offloaded his longtime Los Feliz home for $5.3 million, less than the $5.9 million price he wanted when originally listing the place last December,
Rock God Gene Simmons has lived up to a promise made to The Post and kissed goodbye to California. The legendary Kiss frontman and entrepreneur, and his wife Shannon Tweed, recently dropped $8.2 million on an 11,000-square-foot spread in the desert of Henderson, Nev., just outside Las Vegas, according to reports. “We are moving out
(Kitco News) Gold price is on its way to the highest levels seen this year after recovering more than $220 since the bottom at the end of March. Analysts are now pointing to the $1,950 an ounce as the level to watch, citing a perfect environment for gold. Gold was trading around $1,900 an ounce
Riley Reid, one of the most followed adult film actresses on OnlyFans, has just slapped down $4.8 million for a newly built Pasadena, California, estate. Born Ashley Mathews, the 29-year-old Florida native paid the amount in full for the four-bedroom, six-bathroom compound situated on a massive 3.6-acre lot. While she may live in the lap
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards is still beefing with former co-star Lisa Vanderpump. Lisa left the show after a falling out with former bestie, Kyle, and the rest of the RHOBH cast over “puppy-gate.” Apparently, absence didn’t make the heart grow fonder. Lisa and her husband, Ken Todd, were out to dinner
Ellen DeGeneres owns $63.3 million in homes — and that hasn’t put a single dent in her earnings from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” The 63-year-old comedian is calling it quits on her show after 17 years. But in that period, she has owned $450 million in houses and made enough profits to cover the cost
Zoinks! Is this historic hotel filled with ghosts, or is Scooby going to show up and pull off their masks? A Texas hotel offers paranormal experiences, with guests reporting more than just bumps in the night. Some claimed their toes were pulled in bed, while others said they’ve smelled lemon pound cake or heard giggling,
An avant-garde home meant to help people become “immortal” has gone up for sale in East Hampton for the bargain price of $975,000. The Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa) was built by conceptual artist couple Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa in 2008. Tucked against more staid, traditional homes on Springy Banks Road, the multicolored wonder
[embedded content] Gold’s recent run up to a 4 ½ month high on Wednesday was due partly due to markets taking a hard look cryptocurrencies, said Kitco’s senior market analyst, Jim Wyckoff on Thursday afternoon. On Thursday June gold futures tracked down by $7.80 to $1,893.40 after breaking through $1,900 level mid-week. Bitcoin is down
Real estate developer/investor Sandeep Garg — who formerly headed equity market risk for Goldman Sachs’ securities division in global equities — is auctioning his Hell’s Kitchen duplex loft near Columbus Circle and Central Park. The 2,768-square-foot unit at 426 W. 58th St. features four bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms, along with 13-foot ceilings, hardwood floors and an open
Unprecedented sky-high prices and a serious lack of inventory have made it a daunting process to find temporary Hamptons homes this summer, but that doesn’t mean you have to be shut out of the East End experience. Updated and expanded hotels will be ready in time for this summer’s season. Below are some of the
This sale sure made a splash! Argentine-born American billionaire developer Jorge Pérez, founder of The Related Group of Florida, has sold his Park Grove penthouse in Miami — complete with a rooftop pool — for $10 million in an off-market deal, Gimme has learned. The new-construction Coconut Grove condo comes with five bedrooms and 6½
You might want to consider coming over to the dark side now. A house located in Houston, Texas dubbed the “Darth Vader” home has just hit the market for a cool $4.3 million. With awesome laser blue backlighting installed throughout the house, the property is made up of four bedrooms and five baths. Initially constructed
The Washington DC home where Jackie Kennedy and her children took refuge after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy, is now on the market for $10 million, for the first time in nearly 25 years. According to the Library of Congress, soon after President Kennedy was killed in 1963, the former first lady
It’s love 2.0 for the tennis champ Caroline Wozniacki and ex-New York Knicks star David Lee on Fisher Island, Florida, home to America’s most expensive ZIP code. The 216-acre island is just minutes away from Miami by ferry or private yacht. It boasts its own private beaches with sand imported from the Bahamas, 17 community
In the hierarchy of elite towns in the Hamptons, the village of Westhampton had ranked bottom. Far west of the Shinnecock canal (a widely used but unofficial demarcation of what is and isn’t “the real Hamptons;” the idea is to be “east of the canal”), behind other lower-status waterfront mansion hubs like Hampton Bays and
Good help is hard to find for NYC’s super-rich. Thanks to last year’s lockdown, when domestic workers were frequently asked to quarantine alongside their deep-pocketed employers, staffers ranging from chefs to butlers are now in short supply. Those domestic workers not living year-round with their employers are now demanding high salaries — with high-qualified nannies
It’s 2001 all over again — and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are obsessed with each other. Only this time they’re taking their romance to an oceanfront mega-mansion in Miami Beach. Affleck, 48, has been staying with Lopez, 51, who rented out a whopping $130,000 a month waterfront estate since moving out of the home
Well-heeled history buffs will want to flex with this landmarked carriage house in Chelsea, which hit the market today for $10.5 million. The residence, at 130-132 W. 18th St, was built as stables in 1864, when Chelsea was mostly farmland. For several decades, it was owned by Major Theodore K. Gibbs, who was known as
Hypoxia is a potentially lethal deprivation of oxygen. The brain is the most sensitive organ to hypoxia. Now, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) identified a mechanism that protects the brain from the effects of hypoxia. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Communications in a paper titled, “Sulfide catabolism ameliorates hypoxic brain injury.”
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