An Australian real estate agency became the center of negative attention after offering tenants at one of their properties a week’s worth of free rent in exchange for a five-star review on Google. DailyMail.com reports that Ray White Rockhampton in Queensland emailed...
Douglas Elliman Inc. (NYSE: DOUG) is expanding its residential real estate brokerage services globally with the launch of Elliman International. The new endeavor will focus on high-demand luxury destinations in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific, and...
Realty One Group International has opened its first office in Dominican Republic. Sergio Gonzalez, who currently holds the master franchise rights for five of the company’s Central American and Caribbean markets – Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, Jamaica and the Grand...
The Egyptian government has unveiled a plan to create a new city in a desert area west of Cairo. Reuters reports the 1,680-acre city is to be named Jirian, meaning “flow” in Arabic, and will be built along a new canal connected to the Nile River. The canal will serve...
Florida’s governor says no to public financing of a stadium, Iowa’s governor says yes to bringing down property taxes, and Kamala Harris says something (we’re not sure what) at an Australian real estate conference. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here...
King Charles III has a new side hustle as the landlord for a short-term rental property. The Sun reports that The Folly, a three-bedroom Victorian house at the royal Sandringham retreat, is being rented to the public for $8,500-a-week. The refurbished property has a...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 15-19
