real estate

I should be writing something on the Banks.com blog but my real estate brain has popped for the night.  I’ll write a couple of posts tomorrow to make up for it, I suppose.

He just wants to make sure you know that:

I wrote a couple of months back about Ron Sylvester who twittered the murder trial of a 14 year-old girl.

He writes about it this morning at his blog, Technolo-J.

This email from Metro Planning's Craig Ownsby was posted on the Council District 17 listserv:

You want to know - Is it a Condo, Townhouse or PUD? (Don't call us)

We're getting a LOT more calls, about four times as many as in the past, asking whether a development is a condo (development) or townhouse (development) and/or what its common or private elements may be.

In London, $6,191 is the average real estate price per square foot.

I don't see how one could deny the ethical snarl of a wife who is a Realtor selling tens of millions of dollars in real estate based on zoning decisions made by an alderman who is also her husband.

Usually, Kathy T is like a real estate sherpa.  She walks into a situation, instantly finds her bearings, and can expertly guide you around.

But yesterday, we saw a house so ridiculous that I came into the living room to find her sitting in a dazed confusion.

From the AP:

Lawmakers plan to divert land conservation money to help close a shortfall in the Tennessee state budget.

The $15 million hole in the spending plan was created after lawmakers rejected an administration plan to end a tax exemption on certain family-owned businesses.

Governor Bredesen may allow the Real Estate Trasfer Fees to be sucked into the general fund in order to balance the state budget.

He did this once before, caught hell for it, and made it up to future generations with a stupendous effort to preserve and protect some really important lands, The Sundquist Forest and Frozenhead among them. The problem this time is that Bredesen has only a couple of

I'm informed by a good source at the Tennessee legislature that the Bredesen administration's plan to hit family-owned real estate limited liability companies with $15 million in new taxes is likely dead. The provision has heavy bipartisan opposition.