The Weekly Blend is your ‘weekly’ source covering real estate news that you just may have missed. Our hard at work Weekly Blend crew scours the web, newsgroups and forums looking for obscure, bizarre, interesting and informative real estate (or real estate related) stories. If you have one you’d like to share please feel free to share it in our comments section or tweet about it using the hashtag #WeeklyBlend. So brew yourself a fresh cup of coffee and enjoy these stories…maybe even share them with friends or colleagues. Happy reading!
Here are my weekly picks:
- Habitat for Humanity Canada has launched a thought-provoking new campaign asking Canadians to help end poverty “one brick at a time.” (VIDEO)
- In pictures, here are 10 Canadian estates that cost the same as an average Vancouver home.
- To help draw attention to social issues at five public housing projects, New York City is paying local residents to paint murals.
- The Weekly Blend loves dogs and that means that we love well-designed dog housesjust as much!
- How Pop-Up Go plans to become the Airbnb of temporary space.
- Is the kitchen the new man cave?
- Still looking for a place to stay on Super Bowl Sunday? Carolina Panther Cam Newton is renting out his home on Airbnb … because he’ll be working on Sunday.
- Some southwestern cities (like El Paso, Texas) trying to increase walkability are finding that the modern metropolitan dream has its limits.
- Take a tour of San Francisco’s “Billionaires’ Row,” where old money and tech execs collide.
- And in other Business Insider news, more than 1,000 apartments were purchased anonymously last year in New York City.
- Take a look and see how Germany’s wartime bunkers are being reborn as stylish apartments.
- Vie’s Chicken and Steak House in Vancouver’s Hogan Alley was once owned by Jimi Hendrix’s Grandmother and it is now a bit of a shrine to the long-departed rock god.
- A pet store owner reflects on his rapidly changing Brooklyn neighbourhood. (VIDEO)
- You don’t need much more than this to the gist of the story: Northern Ireland’s leaders are selling off their nuclear bunker.
- Tropical Islands resort is inside a former Soviet airplane hangar near Berlin – and it’s always a sunny 78 degrees Fahrenheit. (VIDEO)
- The headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Brooklyn is up for sale. The Watchtower sign atop the building has been a fixture of the Brooklyn skyline for more than 40 years.
- Here’s your chance to farm on the remotest island on earth.
- Clocks, fans, hammers, lunchboxes: just four of the ten museums devoted to household items.
- Built in 1932, the 6th Street Bridge, is the longest bridge in Los Angeles and it is about to be demolished. Filmmaker Vashi Nedomanksy pays homage to one of Hollywood’s most iconic backdrops. (VIDEO)
- Going for a bit more than a song, Luciano Pavarotti’s New York apartment is being listed for $10.5 million.
- Newport Beach REALTORS® Pegi DiRienzo and Joan Levinson remember the most difficult, last-minute problems that emerged just before closing a sale.
- The Rural Studio’s 20K House is so cheap and has such innovative design that it’s changing the entire housing system—from mortgages to zoning laws.
- Julia Child’s France home will soon become a culinary retreat.
