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“Not going to jail” Texas broker heads to prison for Capitol riot

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 11:00 AM PST

Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan, the Texas real estate broker who brag-tweeted in March, “Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail,” is headed to prison after all. Ryan was sentenced to 60 days in prison for her role in the Jan. 6 riot, according to HuffPost. Ryan faced four charges, ultimately pleading guilty to one misdemeanor charge and agreeing to pay $500 in restitution

Doing time: Historic Texas jail to let guests sleep in cells

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:37 AM PST

Finally, a chance to sleep in a big house. Make that the Big House. A historic 106-year old jailhouse in the Texas Panhandle will soon give travelers the chance to hang up their gun belt and get some shut-eye in the hoosegow, the website MyHighPlains.com reports. The building, just off Main Street in Memphis, Texas — which has a small Downtown in the high plains of the state — was recently sold to a couple

D’oh! Realtors list home from “The Simpsons”

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:30 AM PST

Ever wonder how much “d’oh” it would take to live like Homer and his family from “The Simpsons?” Garretts Real Estate Group has a theory. The company recently “listed” the property at 742 Evergreen Terrace, a two-story family home with a basement. The 2,200-square-foot home, featuring four bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, was given an estimated list price of nearly $450,000. “Figuring out what the approximate value of Homer and Co.’s house is

Developer Hirschfeld donates art collection to New-York Historical Society

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST

Developer Elie Hirschfeld owned so much art that he once had a Mark Rothko face-down on the floor. Now the painting has a new home — as do about 130 other works. The president of Hirschfeld Properties and his wife, Sarah, said he spent more than three decades collecting everything from Keith Haring to Edward Hopper, Marc Chagal and Andy Warhol. These days, the art has left their apartment at 817 Fifth Avenue and taken

Big Tech’s appetite for real estate continues to grow

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 08:03 AM PST

They’re digging their teeth into real estate. Big Tech’s explosive profits and growth are leading to a boom in real estate acquisitions and developments for companies including Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google’s parent company, Alphabet — collectively known in industry parlance as FAANG. The five tech titans own or lease terabytes of space across the country, according to the Motley Fool, thanks to their many offices, storefronts, and data and distribution centers. Leading the

Tiny house riches: Veritable shoebox sells for $1M

Posted: 07 Nov 2021 06:00 AM PST

One buyer in Santa Cruz plunked down $1 million for a home only 328 square feet in size. Not all is as it seems, though. According to SFGATE, the Seabright neighborhood home sold last month above its initial $988,000 asking price. The buyers, who have not been revealed, used an all-cash offer to beat out four other bidders for the home along Mountain View Avenue. Built in 1948, it sold in 1999 for $250,000. The