Oct 9th newsletter

Splendid Crocker Highlands Home For Sale At 818 Northvale Road

This elegant Crocker Highlands home located at 818 Northvale Road in Oakland, is immediately compelling with its outstanding curb appeal and distinctive architecture. Its strong French Provincial features, with their unique appeal is obvious, and include the classic steeply pitched roof, rounded high arched windows, and a manor like appearance that makes it a very special home, and a desirable residence. It offers 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in a more than ample 3721 sf. of living space. Perfectly located in the desirable Crocker Highlands neighborhood of Oakland, it is close to the many popular shops and restaurants of both Grand Lake and Montclair, and offers easy connections to Highways 580 and 13 that provide rapid access to Oakland, San Francisco or Contra Costa County.

9 Droolworthy Victorians in San Francisco

Even people who know nothing at all about San Francisco know the singular beauty of the city’s Victorian architecture. But while the Painted Ladies of Alamo Square and the Full House house are lovely, they’re pretty small fries when it comes to the city’s most glorious historic mansions, all of which are survivors of unprecedented earthquakes, the 1906 fire that destroyed most of the city, and the boom-and-bust cycle of gentrification. All of our historic Victorians are beautiful in their own ways but these nine mansions, manors, and homes are among the most droolworthy in San Francisco.

Plans for some futuristic buildings at at Ski resort in Neom. I can see a 007 movie being filmed here.

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a mountaintop viewpoint as part of the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. The lookout was on display alongside a 330-metre-tall skyscraper also designed by the studio, as part of the Neom stand at the Cityscape conference in Riyadh. Neom also revealed renders of the structure seemingly showing two possible options for the building. The lookout is set to be built as part of the Trojena ski resort in the north of Saudi Arabia, which is being masterplanned by German studio LAVA architects. Named the Mountain Observatory, the building will overlook the central lake as part of a district within Trojena named Discover.

Airbnb guest Elizabeth Hirschhorn was kicked out of an Oakland rental two months before moving into Sascha Jovanovic's Brentwood mansion where the Harvard grad has overstayed for 540 days

Tenant from hell Elizabeth Hirschhorn was kicked out of a $2.6million rental in Oakland, California, less than two months before moving into the ritzy Brentwood guesthouse she has since refused to leave, DailyMail.com can reveal. Hirschhorn, 55, is demanding $100,000 to leave the luxury Los Angeles property that she rented through Airbnb in September 2021 and has been squatting in ever since. Now, as she is pictured here for the first time, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal Harvard-educated Hirschhorn did the same thing to a Bay Area landlord – and cited Covid-19 in that case as well before eventually settling the case in July 2021.

Thinking of investing in Real Estate? How about a 5 unit building for $189,000 in New York

5 unit Apartment building located in the Hamlet of Au Sable Forks. Located close the the Library and Elementary school, shot walk to Town Parks and grocery story. Good rental history, and opportunity for additional revenue as unit #4 is currently reserved for the owner. Recent updates include, oil furnace, electrical and hot water tanks. A minimum of 24 hours notice is required for all showings.

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