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These $3,730-a-month apartments in a former San Francisco hospital are certainly for rent, even if they already may be occupied — by ghosts. SFGate.com is reporting that three one-bedroom apartments located on the fifth floor in what was once the Presidio Public Health Hospital could very well be haunted, or, at the very least, have upstairs neighbors who may go bump in the night. That’s because the building has a curious — and spooky —

The Israeli company that owns the HSBC Tower in Midtown Manhattan has found a hometown buyer in the Innovo Property Group, which has agreed to purchase the trophy asset for $855 million. Reuters is reporting that the Tel Aviv-based funding giant Israel Discount Investments announced the sale on Sunday to the company headed by Andrew Chung, taking a net loss of $45 million on the building in an attempt to boost liquidy and reduce debt

What’re a few billion dollars between friends? The New York Times is reporting that Marcelo Claure, the chief operating officer of SoftBank who was brought in by its founder, Masayoshi Son, to clean up messy investments in money-losing tech start-ups, are in a battle over the compensation for doing so — to the tune of $2 billion over the next few years. The paper reports Son is only willing to pay Claure, who previously managed

If at first you can’t succeed, hike the price by $15 million and try again. That seems to be the mantra for the private Bahamas island of Little Pipe Cay, which just hit the market for $100 million, up from $85 million three years ago, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s part of the 365-island archipelago of Exumas. The reason: luxury prices are rising in nearby tropical markets such as Miami and Palm Beach,

Tiny homes are getting bigger. Nestron, a prefabricated home builder based in Singapore, unveiled Cube Two X, its newest, priciest and biggest model, Insider reported. It’s 377 square feet and starts at $98,000. Cubex Two X is about twice the price of its Cube Two predecessor, which measures about 280 square feet, although Nestron does make 360-square-feet premium models under its Legend series. The new model is roughly the same size as units made by