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The United Church of Christ sold its nine-storey Cleveland headquarters for $4.5 million to a developer planning about 120 apartments, and moved to smaller leased offices to spend more on mission.

The Church of Scotland listed 20 properties in May 2022 as it began closing little-used buildings, from Portsoy Church and Hall at over £60,000 to Stanley Manse at over £335,000.

Highland Oaks Church of Christ in Dallas sold its building for more than its $1.9 million debt, and Rochester Church of Christ in Michigan sold to Rochester University for $2.25 million while keeping use of space.

The Benedictine Community of New Norcia in Western Australia decided to sell most of its 8,000-hectare farm, estimated at about $40 million, to meet redress for historical abuse and sustain the monastery.

Two United Methodist agencies sold the Kern Building in Nashville, assessed at more than $9.5 million, to Vanderbilt University after staff cuts and remote work left them with more space than they needed.

A heritage-listed 1872 Gothic sandstone church in central Hobart, owned by the Korean Full Gospel Church, was listed for $1.2 million, but the agent warned conversion would cost many times the price.

A New York appeals court refused to undo the tax lien foreclosure sale of property owned by Eglise Baptiste De La Communion Fraternelle, even though the church’s pastor had agreed a payment plan with the city after judgment.

A Memphis Christian Science congregation sold its East Memphis corner property for $3.3 million to a furniture businessman’s company and bought a nearby commercial building housing an antiques shop and a restaurant.

Himachal Pradesh revenue authorities ruled that church properties, which are exempt from the state’s 30-acre land ceiling, cannot be sold without government permission, after a dispute over a 107-year-old church-run leprosy home in Palampur.

Sydney’s Anglican Diocese sold Bishopscourt, its archbishops’ 1841 Darling Point mansion, for $18 million because it was too costly to maintain; the buyer later transferred it to his teenage son.

Tasmania’s Anglican Church cut its redress sale list from 107 to 73 properties, sparing churches such as Evandale and Hagley, but the Southern Midlands still faced losing seven of eight churches.

At least 350 Christian-owned properties on Iraq’s Nineveh plains were occupied by officials while their owners were displaced by the Islamic State, with only 50 blocked from sale, a Premier report said.

The Church of Sweden, expecting to lose more than 1 million members in a decade, was preparing to sell property as maintenance costs stayed high while membership and attendance fell.

Charity Baptist Church sold its Crown Heights building, the former Fox Savoy Theater, for $575,000 in 2012 on a promise of ground-floor space in the new development. Records showed its sanctuary placed in the cellar instead.

The Greek Orthodox Church, Israel’s second-biggest landowner, sold land near Jaffa’s clock tower, 700 dunams in Caesarea for $1 million and leasehold land under 1,500 Jerusalem homes, the Times of Israel reported.