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A North Carolina megachurch bought a $2.1 million site for a 1,200-seat campus, but the county denied rezoning over traffic and tax base concerns, leading to a federal lawsuit under religious land-use law.

For years, Bruno Mars was dogged by the wonderfully theatrical rumour that he owed a Las Vegas casino $40 million.…

Jamaica should learn from disasters. It should not learn to punish everyone who happened to be nearby.

Britain’s strongest student rental markets are producing gross yields above 9%, but once the calculation is brought to Jamaica, the return may not justify the cost, financing and trouble

A new national rental database will make landlords and properties easier to identify. Jamaica already requires rented premises to be registered, but the information remains far less visible.

Raleigh congregations including St Paul AME, the city’s oldest Black church, Edenton Street United Methodist and St Michael’s Episcopal are exploring homes on church parking lots and land, helped by the city’s 2022 end to minimum parking rules.

The immediate threat is not a collapse in property sales, but rising construction costs, stubborn inflation and weaker household confidence.

A senior politician owns two rental properties despite supporting tighter controls on private landlords, reopening questions about political credibility and the role investors play in supplying homes.

Five major British lenders, including HSBC, Santander, TSB, NatWest, and Principality Building Society, cut mortgage rates within days of one…

For the first time since October 2023, the cheapest tracker mortgages in Britain fell below the cheapest fixed rate deals…

Santander cut its UK mortgage rates to as low as 3.55 per cent last year in a move brokers linked…

Nationwide Building Society withdrew the last fixed rate mortgages priced below 4 per cent from the UK market earlier this…

The artificial intelligence boom has produced a new and particular kind of property pressure in the United States. In the…

Private residential construction spending in the United States fell again in July, extending what has now become a sustained and…

British mortgage borrowers are now paying an average arrangement fee of £1,129 on fixed rate deals, a noticeably higher figure…