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When the owners bought this Victorian seaside apartment in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, it was dated, run down and needed a lot of work. ‘Most people wouldn’t have bothered to give this dated seaside flat a second chance,’ says the owner. ‘However we could see beyond its dilapidated interior.’ ‘We’ ve renovated properties before, so we knew it could look great, but we had to really visualise how it could be.’ The flat was uninhabitable initially, so the owners spent their weekends renovating and altering the property until it was barely recognisable as the flat that they’d originally bought. They took inspiration from the coastal setting, introducing natural materials , pastel colours and treasures found on the beach. Living room Seaside apartment " width="1000" height="1000" /> The front bay window in the living room was the only thing in the flat that was kept exactly as it was originally found, as it had recently been replaced. A collection of mismatched...

When our children were 11 and 9, young enough to still be entirely inside the family circle but old enough to remember, we splurged on a “once in a lifetime vacation ” and rented a small farmhouse in Southwestern France outside the village of Saint-Cyprien. Each day, our son and daughter would say goodbye to the donkey that hung around our patio and we’d climb in the tiny rented Renault and drive somewhere in the fairy- tale beautiful Dordogne River region . On one of these excursions, we stumbled on the provincial city of Sarlat. An accident of history and several centuries of stagnant economy had left Sarlat’s center virtually unchanged architecturally since the days of siege engines and knights galloping over drawbridges. City fathers had wakened one morning in the late 1950s to realize that, leaning above narrow and winding cobblestone streets and alleys, they had one of the largest collections of intact medieval architecture in Europe. The French government subsidized restor...

Printer-friendly version SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 22, 2017 – Holliday Fenoglio Fowler , L.P. (HFF) announces the $2.35 million cash-out refinancing of Hillside Terrace , a 10- unit apartment property in Walnut Creek, California. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower, PTLA Real Estate Group , to secure the seven-year, fixed-rate, non-recourse loan with 36 months of interest only. Hillside Terrace comprises 10 recently renovated , two- bedroom units featuring stainless steel appliances , in-unit washers and dryers and faux-wood flooring.  Situated at 1865 Lacassie Avenue, the property is just east of Interstate 680 and just over a block south of the Walnut Creek BART station .  Hillside Terrace is also within walking distance to numerous retail and dining amenities in downtown Walnut Creek .  The HFF debt placement team representing the borrower included director Chris Gandy . Holliday Fenoglio Fowler , L.P., acting by and through Holliday GP Corp ., a real estate broker licensed wi...

rose manor apartments " width="600" height="381" /> The Rose Manor Apartments at 16-18 S. Dooley Ave. sold for $1.75 million. ( Jonathan Spiers ) A renovated apartment building in the Carytown area recently sold to an out-of-market buyer in a seven-figure deal. The eight- unit Rose Manor Apartments at 16-18 S. Dooley Ave. sold Aug. 2 for $1.75 million. City property records list the buyer as Silver Mountain Properties Ltd., an entity based in southwestern Virginia. The seller was DiJon Properties LLC , which purchased the two-story, 8,200-square-foot building in 2009 for $435,000 and renovated the property in 2014. The latest city assessment valued the 0.12-acre property at $975,000. DiJon Properties was represented in the deal by Matt Hamilton, Jackie Noel and Bruce Milam of Colliers International’s Richmond office. Silver Mountain was represented by Ryan Tyndall of Washington, D.C.- based Bediz Group LLC , an affiliate of Keller Williams Capital P...

Generic apartments will create more stress The Victorian District is indeed a neighborhood. As a long-time resident, I have watched it grow in the 30 years that I’ve lived on East Bolton Street . I hope we can hang onto our neighborhood. Currently it is being buffeted by more and more vacation rentals and requests for new hotels. Now, we are confronted with a proposed large, generic apartment complex which is too big for the requested site and will only add more stress and congestion to the area. Is it not possible to develop projects that will enhance, not detract, from this historic district ? EDITH SCHMIDT Resident Victorian District Savannah Savannah entering post-renaissance period Your Sunday article about Rousakis Riverfront Plaza brought back many memories. It’s hard to imagine what River Street looked like before the renovation. Fortunately for Savannah, a group of citizens, under the leadership of John P. Rousakis, saw our city’s rich history as her greatest asset. This w...

It’s served as a classroom annex for the former Lancaster Boys’ High School just around the corner. In 1909, part of it was converted into a basketball court for the school, “with the maximum cost of equipment not exceeding $25,” according to newspaper records. It was the home for Lancaster Bible College ’s precursor, Lancaster School of the Bible. It’s housed more than one church congregation — most recently, Foursquare Gospel Church . Standing solidly on North Mulberry Street , the square, pale yellow building looks over Shreiner-Concord Cemetery and Thaddeus Stevens’ gravesite. And it’s been a public hub of one kind or another in this west-end section of Lancaster city since it was built in 1880. Now, 128 N. Mulberry St. is gearing up for its newest incarnation: Four apartments carved out of cavernous church space . For Ben J. Cunningham, a Millersville University professor and part owner of the project, its been part investment, part neighborhood effort and a test of the crea...