Getty Image The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items will vary, as will the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday and we are here to have some fun. ITEM NUMBER ONE — Jeremy Renner, house flipper The internet is wild. I think sometimes we take that for granted. We get so caught up in…
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Spring 2009: Tarek and Christina El Moussa are married. September 2010: The El Moussas' first child, a daughter named Taylor Reese, is born. April 2013: The couple's show Flip or Flop premieres on HGTV. August 2015: Their son, Brayden James, is born. May 2016: Christina and Tarek privately separate, and publicly separate in December. January 2018: Christina and Tarek's divorce is finalized. May 31, 2018: The first season of Flip or Flop airs since their separation. December 22, 2018: Christina marries Ant Anstead and changes her name to Christina Anstead.HGTVThere's a reason so many of HGTV's series feature husband-wife duos:…
DENVER, Colo. – A man who, along with a partner, stole more than $1 million in a real estate investment scheme has been sentenced in Denver District Court.Elliot Boston III, along with his partner Dan Jay, were indicted by a Denver grand jury in April 2017 on 40 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, identity theft, forgery and theft. Boston pleaded guilty in April to one count of organized crime and theft. The Denver District Attorney's Office announced Monday that Boston was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday.As part of the scheme, Boston allegedly defrauded 10 investors out of…
This article appeared in the September 24-October 1, 2018 issue of Sports Illustrated. For more great stories and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazine and save up to 94% off the regular price. Click here to learn more.Standing in the middle of the demolished first floor, the smell of fresh paint seeping in from the second floor and the roar of a power sander a few feet away, Brandon Copeland opens his laptop. “Here's the plans for the kitchen,” says the Jets' 6-foot-3, 263-pound outside linebacker. He taps the screen, bringing up a document with a handwritten note across the…
For the 2018 Neighborhood Housing Index, ATTOM Data Solutions analyzed home resale profit potential in 3,573 neighborhoods with sufficient home resale data. Overall, the areas with the highest potential profits from home flipping were those rated F, followed by areas rated D, C, and B. Areas rated A had the lowest potential profits from home flipping. However, there were 209 A-rated areas with average gross profit margins of 50 percent or more, including the Cottage Grove Heights area of the Chicago metropolitan area in Illinois (ROI 309.2 percent), the Woodmere and Dolfield areas of the Baltimore metropolitan area in Maryland…
This article is over 5 years old and may contain outdated information. I'm sure I'm not the only big fan of the TV show where people buy abandoned houses, renovate them, and resell them for a huge profit. I always say I could do that, but I don't actually have the money or the skills to actually make it happen. Luckily, thanks to the mobile game “House Designer: Fix & Flip,” you have the chance to satisfy your ego and flip a house yourself, albeit virtually. And today I’m going to show you some House Designer: Fix & Flip cheats…
Adaptive Reuse: Turning Blight into Brightness Courting Millennials From JLL: Global real estate markets have maintained their momentum since the start of the year despite rising economic and political risks, with investment and corporate occupancy activity reaching its highest level in more than a decade in the first half of 2018. Robust office demand is poised for another strong year for global leasing markets. Leasing volumes are likely to at least match last year's impressive figures, but vacancy rates are expected to gradually rise as the office development cycle peaks. In the logistics sector, robust absorption has kept vacancy rates…
David Wilson, Director of the CCIM Institute, said: “In this report, KC Conway, Chief Economist for the CCIM Institute, covers adaptive reuse, an increasingly popular yet misunderstood and under-analyzed area of real estate. I've had the opportunity to travel the world on behalf of CCIM and have seen firsthand that it is a global phenomenon. From turn-of-the-century warehouses to castles to train stations, developers and investors have extracted enormous value from disused buildings. This report is the first step in the Alabama Real Estate Center's effort to redefine and quantify adaptive reuse, elevating it to a distinct product category within…
Two Chicago-set shows, “Big City Charm” and “Windy City Rehab,” are among the shows scheduled to premiere on HGTV in the coming months.According to a press release issued by HGTV last week, “Big City Charm” follows Southern California couple Mark and Liz Perez as they “recognize the potential in blighted properties, transform them into gems on blocks, and sell them to first-time homebuyers at prices they can afford.”The couple seems to like the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side: Public records show that the Perezes bought a home there in 2016 for $77,000 and sold it a year later…
US Macro Forecast – February 2018 The Age of Acceleration – Navigating Global CRE Technology and Innovation From Deloitte: Blockchain technology has recently been adopted and used in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. CRE executives are realizing that blockchain-based smart contracts can play a larger role in the industry. Blockchain technology has the potential to transform core CRE operations, including real estate transactions such as purchases, sales, financing, leasing, and management transactions. The report “provides more detailed information on how blockchain can benefit businesses. Overall, for blockchain technology to be relevant, certain prerequisites must be met. Once a company…