Two apartments were Tuesday morning set ablaze in TaKoradi, Western region, by a man suspected to be mentally challenged. Mawul, who is in his early thirties, had jokingly announced his intention to set his mother’s apartment ablaze Tuesday, and neighbours also treated it lightly and did not therefore take any proactive measure. True to his words, … Read more
The worst thing for buyers who are looking for an apartment is fraud. Today there are quite a lot of fraudulent schemes, and from time to time the new ones appear. In this post we will reveal a number of more or less known fraudulent schemes, so you are ready to distinguish them when signing … Read more
The Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Hackman Owusu Agyeman has expressed some misgivings at a multi-million dollar flats under construction in Tema Community 2 to house workers of COCOBOD. According to him, the 192 flats, which are being constructed by Amandi Constructions, have some deficiencies that raise questions of value for money. The agreement for the … Read more
Government is determined to address the housing deficit through forging stronger investor partnerships to provide affordable housing units to meet the demands of Ghanaians, the Minister of Works and Housing has said. Samuel Atta Akyea said investors would also be sought to invest in rural housing projects under which affordable houses would be built in … Read more
In 2010, Neena Nagpal and her husband spent their life savings on a flat outside Delhi that was never built. Now, a new law seeks to protect thousands of home buyers like her from unscrupulous property developers. “The entire experience has been painful,” says the 54-year-old, whose husband recently died, leaving her to take care … Read more
Rock legend David Bowie’s former apartment in New York, complete with views of Central Park and his piano, is up for sale for $6.5 million. Bowie and his model wife Iman lived in the apartment from 1992 to 2002 when they moved to the more bohemian Soho neighborhood, where the rocker died last year after … Read more
Shanties have mushroomed on the rooftops of historic apartment buildings in Casablanca, as the Moroccan city’s once-prestigious centre crumbles below. Clotheslines, satellite dishes and tangled cables have sprouted on the deteriorating facades of the buildings, constructed nearly a century ago under French rule. What was once a feted blend of Moroccan and European architecture is … Read more
With a skyline crowded with ever-more luxury towers, the construction of another Manhattan skyscraper wouldn’t normally be remarkable. But the American Copper Buildings going up on the East River — a complex of two towers with 764 apartments, panoramic views and a huge entrance hall with a doorman — is different. Planned just after deadly … Read more
From Adenta to Chicago, to New York, city after city, that’s how music star, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade also known as Mr Eazi has been touring in the last couple of weeks, gathering accolades from left, right and centre, making money and promoting his brand around the world. Friends and close associates of the ‘Leg Over’ … Read more
Drive through the streets of Accra and Tema at midnight and all you will see is people sleeping on the streets where the sky is their roof and the bare floor is their bed. My Grandpa once told me that when you are able to own a house then it means 70% of your problems … Read more
Many Real Estate Developers continue to believe that people find it hard to adapt to living in apartments. Regardless of designs, there are reasons such as monotony and independence influencing the choice of conventional housing to apartments. In light of the city’s ambition for more sustainable urban densities, it is both inevitable and appropriate that … Read more