Last week, I hitched a ride through the far suburbs of Washington, DC in a Tesla Model 3, entered a newly built subdivision where we found a row of townhomes and pulled into the garage of the first one. The car was plugged into the electric vehicle charger that was drawing from the nine-kilowatt solar
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Bay area buyers are flocking to Lake Tahoe as the summer season officially kicks off. Jeff Brown, owner and general manager of Tahoe Mountain Realty, has lived and worked in Tahoe for 26 years. “The market here is red hot and shows no signs of mellowing out. As of now, demand is equal to the
It’s hard to put a value on a sun-bathed knoll with unobstructed vistas of the Mediterranean Sea and the Costa del Sol – views that stretch all the way to Gibraltar and beyond. This villa in the resort community of La Zagaleta, near the Spanish mountain village of Benahavis in the province of Malaga, capitalizes
Porcelain tile has numerous wellness design benefits, and will be a featured material at the annual Coverings expo opening tomorrow in Orlando (and online for those not traveling there). Coverings bills itself as the largest tile and stone products trade show in North America and is jointly sponsored by the ceramics industry associations of
It has never been easy to get prospective buyers to close on a real estate listing. Thanks to the internet, the task seems more difficult than ever. The market is rife with window shoppers and indecisive house hunters, making it a sometimes overwhelming challenge to get them to commit. While window shoppers can present a
Stanley Rosenbaum’s father owned 12 movie theaters in northern Alabama at a time when that was the premier entertainment for all – rich, poor, young, old: everyone went to the movies. Stanley himself was an intellectual who attended Harvard at 16, spoke five languages and became an English professor at the local college. In 1938,
If the name Oliver Trevena sounds familiar, it’s because he’s developed quite the name for himself as an actor and entrepreneur. In the public eye since the age of four, he was born and raised in East Sussex, England. Trevena became a child star performing in plays such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nutcracker, and Oliver. Since then,
Every survey and trend forecaster tells us that Americans want to get outside. We want homes with outdoor activity, playing, living, relaxing and cooking spaces, and we want those area to be easily accessible and easy to use. It stands to reason that, of the homes for sale right now, the most desirable ones have
Pro-style gas ranges have been the top choice of serious home chefs for decades, and for millions of other homeowners who learned how to cook over a flame, but that is slowly changing. Induction cooking is edging up on gas’ lead and is poised to overtake it in coming years. The major trends driving the
Multimillion-dollar homes in Beverly Hills aren’t rare, but this $65 million Beverly Hills estate at 1108 Wallace Ridge (called Elementi) in the exclusive Trousdale Estates neighborhood, is officially accepting the Bitcoin equivalent to take it off the market. “Crypto is something the sellers are very interested in, and it’s a growing movement that I believe