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Real estate news: Investor Manny Khoshbin buys Orange office campus for $19M
Orange County Register - California
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August 29, 2025
Manny Khoshbin, collector of supercars and commercial real estate, recently bought another Orange County property, this time the two-building Orangewood Corporate Plaza in Orange. The eponymous Khoshbin Co. paid $18.9 million for the...
A Nazi-Looted Painting Was Missing for 85 Years—Until Someone Saw It in a Real-Estate Listing
Popular Mechanics
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August 29, 2025
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A painting lost for more than 80 years has finally been located, thanks to a single photo in an online real estate listing. The painting, titled Portrait of a Lady by the artist Fra’ Galgario, had...
Mohammed Becomes Most Common Name Among Welfare Benefit Recipients in Germany
American Renaissance
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August 29, 2025
New figures released by Germany’s federal government have reshaped the rankings of citizen’s allowance recipients in the country, placing Mohammed and its many spelling variants at the top of the list. A recent government response to an...
Ten Years After Opening the Borders: What Has Germany Gained from Migration?
Tunisie Numerique
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August 29, 2025
Ten years ago, in the summer of 2015, Germany made a historic decision to open its borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the time, delivered a...
Porsche Macan Maintenance Cost: How Expensive Is The German SUV To Own?
CarBuzz
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August 29, 2025
The Porsche Macan has consistently been one of Porsche's top-selling models, beating even the 911 in terms of total sales each year. The opportunity to have the sporting DNA of that car in a more practical family SUV package has proved...
Shocking detail in real estate ad sparks raid
Townsville Bulletin
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August 28, 2025
Argentine police hunted on Wednesday for a 17th-century painting which was allegedly stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector. They resurfaced this week in a property ad, only to disappear again. The painting, believed to be “Portrait...
An international real estate agency operating from Alto Minho
The Portugal News
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Focused on the buyer, with a turnkey service, speaking 13 languages, and with agents in the buyers' home countries, Fábio Neves is revolutionising the real estate market in the region. Fábio Neves Fábio Neves grew up, studied Marketing and...
CoStar buys Australian real estate marketplace for $2 billion
Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia
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CoStar Group has purchased an Australian real estate marketplace in a $2 billion deal. CoStar, a real estate information company with a large presence in Richmond, announced Wednesday it had completed its acquisition of Domain Holdings Australia,...
Germany increases Ammunition and Weapons Supplies to Ukraine
Sarajevo Times
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August 29, 2025
For three years, European countries have been funneling huge amounts of weapons to Ukraine to help Kiev fight off a Russian invasion. Now, with reserves dwindling due to a conflict that is eating up ammunition and shows no sign of ending, a...
Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in August 2025
The Times of Israel
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August 29, 2025
Home prices in Israel fell in May and June for the fourth month in a row, as sales data reflected the impact of Israel’s 12-day war with Iran for the first time. The housing market has cooled in recent months, partially in reaction to the multiple...
Why Germans are falling out of love with Mallorca
The Local - Germany
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August 29, 2025
Mallorca has long been the favourite place in Spain for German tourists, residents and second homeowners, but recent data suggest that the Mediterranean island is losing its appeal among its main tourism market. Germans have always been a big...
Vattenfall Secures Dutch Base to Support Germany’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
Offshore Engineer News
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August 29, 2025
Vattenfall has signed a deal with EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) to establish an operations and maintenance (O&M) base in the Dutch port of Eemshaven to support construction and operation of its planned Nordlicht 1 and 2 wind farms, which will become...
Thyssengas begins the realisation of the cross-border hydrogen line between the Netherlands and Germany
World Pipelines
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August 29, 2025
From natural gas to hydrogen – the conversion of one of the first cross-border hydrogen lines between Vlieghuis in the Netherlands and Ochtrup in Münsterland is starting in Hoogstede. Thyssengas celebrates the groundbreaking ceremony with...
Germany’s Logistics Provider Partners with Kyrgyz Railways to Boost Central Asian Freight Links
The Astana Times
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August 28, 2025
ALMATY — The Rhenus Group, a German leading global logistics service provider, has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Kyrgyz Temir Zholu, the National Railway Company of the Kyrgyz Republic on Aug. 27. to strengthen freight transport and...
Vattenfall Secures Eemshaven O&M Site for New German Offshore Wind Farms
Offshore Wind
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August 29, 2025
Vattenfall has signed a contract with EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO), under which EMO will build and lease an operations and maintenance (O&M) base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, to Vattenfall for its Nordlicht offshore wind farms in Germany....
Painting allegedly looted by Nazis during WWII spotted in real estate listing
The Independent
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August 28, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Beyond far-right backlash: Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
RTL Today
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August 29, 2025
Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came during...
‘It cannot go on’ – German business community delivers serious warning to Chancellor Merz
Remix
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August 28, 2025
The grace period provided to the German government that took office in the spring is now over. Germany’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) sent a serious warning to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, arguing that “things cannot go on like this.” The...
How to get Germany's WBS certificate for affordable housing
The Local - Germany
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August 29, 2025
It can be hard finding affordable accommodation in Germany, especially if you're on a low income. Having a 'Wohnberechtigungsschein', or social housing eligibility certificate, can help. We break down what it is and how to get one. "Only with...
Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
Yahoo News
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Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came during...