LOS ALTOS HILLS PRICE: $100 million. This 25,500-sq.-ft. mansion in Northern California’s Los Altos Hills has five bedrooms and nine bathrooms, according to listing data. Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner is the listed buyer.       HOLMBY HILLS (594 South Mapleton Drive, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024) Price: $85,000,000. The Spelling Manor,...

              A Pennsylvania developer has spent $85 million on a Beverly Hills apartment complex it plans to turn into a luxurious extended-stay hotel. Dubbed The AKA Beverly Hills, This resort will be featuring 88 suites which will start at about $400 a night. Korman Communities bought the Crescent Beverly Hills apartments...

Apparently the upper end of the Silicon Valley home market continues to defy the doldrums afflicting the broader real estate sales trends. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reported late last year that homes worth $5 million or more shot up 55 percent compared to 2010. Quite impressive but this news is tempered with the following sour news published in the...

Jun 23, 2011

  Real estate investment in Asia picked up significantly in the second half of 2010. Territories such as Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China the most active markets. This real estate trend continues well into 2011 and the Chinese government has already begun to implement policies to keep their home-grown real estate market from overheating. These policies...

Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal . . a panel of 500 architectural firms that focus on residential properties what customers are asking for in new developments. The percentage reporting that customers wanted smaller houses has seemingly started to drop . . .Read...