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J-Lo and A-Rod list Malibu beach house for $8M

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 11:00 AM PDT

Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and entertainer Jennifer Lopez are looking to shed a Malibu beach house they bought less than two years ago. The couple is asking $8 million for the three-story property on Malibu Road, according to the Los Angeles Times. They paid former owner and actor Jeremy Piven $6.6 million for what Lopez last year called “a little fixer-upper next to the water.” The couple renovated the property last year with the help

Hong Kong developer pitches ground-up city in Ireland for HK expats

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 09:00 AM PDT

A Hong Kong developer redrew a pitch to build a city from scratch in Ireland after what appeared to be a lukewarm reception. Victoria Harbour Group founder Ivan Ko is now looking for a roughly 20-square-mile site outside Dublin to build a city from the ground up dubbed Nextpolis that would host 50,000 Hong Kong emigrants. He first pitched a 193-square-mile project around December as an autonomous city in the vein of Hong Kong itself,

Protesters revisit Steven Roth, Stephen Ross and other NY billionaires

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 07:32 AM PDT

Real estate titans Steven Roth and Stephen Ross were visited by around 200 demonstrators at their Hamptons estates Thursday, according to Business Insider. The protesters demanded Gov. Andrew Cuomo raise taxes on the East End’s ultra-wealthy inhabitants — and others across the state — instead of cutting services to close the state’s enormous budget deficit. It’s at least the second such demonstration this month over cuts to the state budget that are inevitable absent a

Landlords slow to embrace Lisbon’s rent guarantee program

Posted: 01 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT

Portugal’s capital Lisbon is a few months into a program meant to bring units in the city off the short-term rental market and into its affordable housing stock. Landlords so far have been slow to embrace it, but that could change if the coronavirus pandemic continues to hammer tourism in the city, according to Bloomberg. The city’s Safe Rent program requires landlords to commit to long-term affordable renting for at least five years. Lisbon’s government