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Real estate investment volumes remain strong in Romania in first half of 2025 - report
Romania Insider
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July 16, 2025
Romania attracted roughly EUR 391 million in real estate investments during the first half of 2025, marking only a slight 6.5% decrease compared to the same period last year (EUR 418 million). Despite the dip, H1 2025 ranks as the second-best...
Real Estate Talk Arabia: Transforming Networking in the Property Sector
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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July 16, 2025
Real Estate Talk Arabia empowers real estate professionals to navigate the complexities of the Middle Eastern market through regular livestreams and a dynamic online community. These resources offer practical support in handling objections,...
Is NYC Real Estate Quietly On Sale For Foreign Investors?
Forbes
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For buyers transacting in select foreign currencies, this could be a strategic opportunity to deploy ... More capital into hard assets, entering a market that is historically resilient, globally respected, and available at a discount.getty While...
Edinburgh Tops UK Property Investment Rankings for 2025
Edinburgh Evening News
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July 16, 2025
According to the latest multi-factor scientific analysis, Edinburgh has emerged as the best UK city for property investment this year, scoring 6.27 out of 10 across 13 critical factors. But it's not just Scotland's capital that's making waves –...
Could the Chancellor’s Leeds Reforms trigger a bull market for UK stocks?
The Motley Fool UK
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July 16, 2025
In her Mansion House speech, the Chancellor set out a series of reforms aimed at stimulating UK economic growth. Part of this involves a drive to increase participation in Stocks and Shares ISAs. These are called the Leeds Reforms. If they...
UK households urged to put lemon and orange peels near windows and doors in summer
Manchester Evening News
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July 16, 2025
With the warmer weather fuelling a surge in aphids, UK homes are facing an unexpected ladybird invasion. Warm temperatures mean that aphids are booming and as their prime food source, ladybirds will follow them wherever they end up - which is most...
Teen among two charged after ‘deliberate’ fires set at property in the Highlands
STV News
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July 16, 2025
Two men have been charged after the same property was set on fire within four days in the Highlands. Emergency services were called to reports of a blaze at the Mansfield Estate in Tain at around 4.25am on Thursday, July 10. Officers were also...
Flash-floods could hit New England. See weather forecast
Wicked Local - Massachusetts
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AccuWeather stated that flash-floods are possible in the Northeast this week "In the most extreme cases, there will be the potential for 2-4 inches of rain to fall in as many hours or less," AccuWeather stated this week AccuWeather meteorologists...
Judge partially sides with Vermont church in property rights dispute
Valley News - New Hampshire
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July 16, 2025
A Superior Court judge dismissed, in part, the Pownal Center Community Church’s complaint against the town in an ongoing property rights dispute. Through a lawsuit filed in April, representatives from the church aimed to shed light on the property...
Dr James Orleans-Lindsay to address Africa Rising Symposium in UK
Ghana News Agency
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July 16, 2025
By Laudia Sawer Tema, July 16, GNA — Dr James Orleans-Lindsay, the Chancellor of the Cape Coast Technical University and the Executive Chairman of JL Holdings, a Ghanaian real estate company, has been announced as the keynote speaker for the...
UK house price inflation picks up as sales activity rebounds
ShareCast
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According to data from the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday, the average house price was £269,000 in May, up 3.9% over the year before, with the growth rate rising from 3.6% in April. The annual rate of house price inflation had slowed...
British Open schedule on Saturday to be adjusted because of loyalist parade
Cadillac News - Michigan
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PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Tee times in Saturday's third round of the British Open will be brought forward in an effort to reduce the potential for disruption while an annual loyalist parade takes place the same day in Portrush. Some 77...
CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter: Britain was once known as a ‘nation of shopkeepers.’ Now, not so much
CNBC
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July 16, 2025
This report is from this week's CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter by Ian King. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch England, Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly once said, is a nation of shopkeepers. These days, he might observe that it is...
UK house prices remain resilient in challenging market
Mortgage Strategy
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July 16, 2025
Average UK house prices increased by 3.9%, to £269,000, in the 12 months to May 2025 (provisional estimate); according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistic. This annual growth rate is up from 3.6% in the 12 months to April...
June home sales were hot across the BC Northern Real Estate Board
My Bulkley Lakes Now
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Northern BC home sales were ahead of their 10-year average in June after 476 unit sales were made according to the BC Real Estate Association. That’s a year-over-year spike of 11.7% when compared to the same time last year. Economist, Amit Sidhu...
UK households told to put washing up liquid in the microwave
Manchester Evening News
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July 16, 2025
10:36, 16 Jul 2025 Cleaning your microwave is one of those tasks that is easily forgotten. It can sometimes be weeks, or in some cases even months, until you finally decide to tackle it. Microwaves can become dirty rather quickly, with minor...
Far-right memes are poisoning British politics
New Statesman
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July 16, 2025
A black man harasses a white woman in a railway carriage, then a white man comes up and punches him. Christians passing through Jerusalem are spat on by Jews, who then boast of killing Jesus. A softly spoken British imam explains that Muslims must...
UK tourists in hotspot face €1000 'heart attack' bill after 'free' sun bed 'scam'
Birmingham Live
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July 16, 2025
Brits jetting off on holiday often enjoy some time under the sun, kicking back and relaxing on sun beds by the pool or sea. However, tourists in Mykonos, Greece have claimed one beach bar on the island has been offering holidaymakers supposedly...
Artists give cultural relevance and nuance to technological advances, new British Council report reveals
The Art Newspaper
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July 16, 2025
Artists, cultural organisations and creative industries play an essential, active, role in driving technological advancement while ensuring human values remain at the centre of innovation, according to a new British Council report, Why Technology...
UK households urged to avoid one type of garden lights to keep midges away
Manchester Evening News
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July 16, 2025
This simple switch could stop midges from being drawn into your garden and home With the warm summer evenings now in full swing, many people will be spending more time out in their gardens. But whilst sitting outdoors at night is often relaxing,...