Real Estate Posts

Japan, New Zealand, Chile – three points on the Pacific Ring of Fire have been active in the last year…but nothing grand has happened on the Pacific coast of North America. Kind of makes you wonder when then next disaster will hit us?

As a refresher, the Ring of Fire is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes. Los A

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On their 1928 holiday card, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coit Tyler sent a photograph of their home and an engraved promise to family and friends: “You will always be welcome here.”

The three-story Tudor they built in 1926 is as elegant and inviting today as it was when the Tylers first greeted guests, but with 21st-century comforts, including central air conditioning and a remodeled kitchen with double ovens, two sinks and two dishwashers.

“When you walk into the house, the open floor plan, the light and the grandeur really capture you,” said Mollie Abend of Prudential Connecticut Realty in West Hartford.

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Digital Realty Trust’s Downtown L.A. Datacenter Facility has received the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Sustainability Award in recognition of energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives.

The 450,000 square foot building at 600 W. 7th Street is said to be one of the largest and most important datacenter and telecommunications facilities in the United States.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a global wholesale datacenter provider, they are the first datacenter company to receive this award from the LADWP.

The LADWP award recognizes significant gains in energy efficiency and other initiatives to implement sustainable operational practices. T

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Shelton-based William Raveis Real Estate has partnered with Zillow to automatically feed its listings to the online real estate and mortgage information website, hoping to bring more leads to its agents.

The partnership announced Thursday will allow properties listed on http://www.raveis.com to be found on Zillow. The Zillow Listings Feed program began in 2007 and now has more than 4 million for-sale listings and hundreds of thousands of rental listings, according to the companies.

“If it’s on the [Multiple Listing Service] and on raveis.com, it’s going to be on Zillow,” said Wayne Edmonds, vice president of information technology for Raveis.

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In an ominous development for house prices and spending on the high street, the Bank of England says that record amounts of money are being used by families to repay mortgages and to pay off other debts secured on their homes – with little new lending to first-time buyers to balance the depressing impact on the economy.

The Bank’s latest statistics on housing equity withdrawal show that British families paid off £7bn, net, of mortgage and other secured debt in the last three months of 2010 – the highest net repayment since records began in 1970. It marks an acceleration on the £6.6bn paid off between July and September.

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