Municipal authorities in the City of Johannesburg have warned thousands of defaulting residential property owners and businesses that they face blacklisting if they fail to settle their debts, which collectively amount to over R40 billion. With a mounting municipal debt exceeding R52 billion, the city has launched aggressive credit control campaigns to tackle the issue … Read more
SINGAPORE: A City Developments Limited (CDL) joint venture was the sole bidder for a site along Zion Road that has been earmarked for the pilot of long-stay serviced apartments. The joint venture between CDL and Mitsui Fudosan (Asia) – whose parent company is Japan’s largest property developer by market capitalisation – placed a bid of S$1,106,888,000 … Read more
New York City officials are forecasting overdue property taxes will surge to a record $880 million in the current fiscal year — and they say it’s because they’ve lost the power to enforce punishments for delinquencies. The staggering figure — forecasted for the fiscal year ending in June — marks a jump of more than … Read more
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is hitting pause on a new “bare trust” reporting requirement with just a few days remaining before the deadline. New reporting requirements for such trust arrangements were introduced for the 2024 tax season. Anyone with a bare trust was required to file a T3 tax return form naming the trustees, … Read more
As It Happens5:49This wildlife centre is taking unusual steps to try and rehab a fox kit Why did veterinary assistant Melissa Stanley wear a large, furry fox mask to work? Because that’s what was best for her patient, of course. Stanley is the executive director at Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia, which posted a viral video … Read more
Docking, Norfolk Only 15 minutes from the coast, in a conservation area, is a pretty cottage with roses growing around the pitched porch. In fact, roses are a theme with the motif repeated in several stained-glass windows. The five-bedroom home was once a pub with 1795 carved into a small arch of exposed brick below … Read more
A country in Europe loved by Brits has seen house prices increase by a staggering amount over the last decade. According to euronews.business, house prices in Turkey have risen by a whopping 1,194 percent in less than 10 years. This figure is far ahead of second on the list, Hungary, whose house prices have risen … Read more
Every New Jersey counties posted gains in home prices over the past year with three counties seeing increases of at least 10%, according to data from Zillow. Mercer, Camden and Atlantic counties topped the list for rising home values in the state between December 2022 and 2023, according Zillow. The highest typical home values were … Read more
SINGAPORE: An online crisis portal will be set up to facilitate the use of residential properties as emergency housing in the event of a national crisis. The Ministry of National Development (MND) and MOGUL.sg said in a joint press release on Friday (Mar 8) that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) had been signed to use the property … Read more
The first-time homebuyer incentive has been discontinued by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the federal agency announced on Thursday. The deadline for new or resubmitted applications to the program is midnight ET on March 21, 2024, according to the CMHC’s website. Launched in 2019, the plan was meant to help reduce monthly mortgage payments … Read more
