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Real estate is a byproduct of economic growth

Brandon Donnelly

I sometimes wonder if I wasn’t born and raised in Toronto if I still would have gone to architecture school and become a real estate developer. Or if I grew up in Park City, maybe I would have started a snowboard company, slash become a ski bum. And I say this as a developer and builder of real estate.

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Boston reprioritizes Planning and Development Agency as reformers push to eliminate structural inequality

Archinect

The Boston City Council passed a measure Wednesday to shift planning authority away from the Boston Planning and Development Agency, a body that's reshaped much of the city in the 20th century and has faced criticism for the power it wields over building and urban renewal. as overwhelmingly white and male.

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Why Is the Real Estate Market Booming in the UAE?

The Architecture Designs

During the second quarter of 2022, the UAE real estate market is standing firm on its ground. Despite the global headwinds and rising inflation concerns of the world government, the UAE real estate market has shown little to no effects. Well, most of the credit can be given to the pandemic of 2020.

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s Mansion Lawsuit Has a Verdict, and Other Celebrity Real Estate News

Dwell

Just before the Americans among us depart for our yearly, morally dubious celebration of colonialism and, I suppose, gratitude, we gather together today to celebrate that which we are grateful for most: celebrity real estate news. Let’s hope the sale of the late Barbara Walters’s former New York City home goes a bit more smoothly.

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New data reveals the growing state of adaptive reuse residential conversions nationwide

Archinect

More precisely, this increasingly popular real estate niche brought a total of 28,000 new rentals in 2020-2021, well above the pre-pandemic years of 2018-2019 when 22,300 apartments were brought to life through adaptive reuse. In the last two years, apartment conversions jumped by 25% compared to two years prior.

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Elon Musk is planning a utopian Hoovertown outside of Austin

Archinect

In meetings with landowners and real-estate agents, Musk has reportedly described his idea for the estate — which he envisions building on thousands of acres of property he purchased on the Colorado River — as a utopia, so that his employees can live, work, and play without ever leaving. This is just the beginning.

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Architecture and the Economy: Inside China’s Ghost Cities

Architizer

In recent months, as rumors of China’s economic crisis have spread, the images that seem to interest people the most are photographs of China’s so-called “ghost cities” — urban developments that are eerily under-occupied. Investment is largely going into, as I said, infrastructure, real estate. But what do these images signify?

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