Posts Tagged ‘real estate’

Churches are hot property, especially the converted

Thursday, November 21st, 2024
Churches

Churches appear to be the latest thing on the real estate market. They make highly sought-after living spaces, especially if someone’s already converted the ecclesiastical into the domestic, property agents say. One Roof editor Owen Vaughan says there will always be a market for quirky spaces with a sense of reverence. Some are converted into Read more

St Gerard’s Church and Monastery hits the market with $16.9m RV

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Church and Monastery

Wellington’s magnificent St Gerard’s Church and Monastery is back on the market. Described as “arguably one of Wellington’s most iconic and photographed buildings,” St Gerard’s on Hawker Street in Mount Victoria is to be sold by tender later this month. It has an RV of $16.9m. The category one, heritage-listed buildings were acquired by the Read more

‘Land mafia’ link to attack on Christians in Pakistan?

Friday, March 15th, 2013

Real estate interests in a “land mafia” may have been behind an attack on Christians by a 3000-strong mob which burnt 180 homes and two churches in a Christian quarter of Lahore, according to Pakistan’s Minister of State for Harmony. In a motion presented in the federal senate, the minister, Akram Masih Gill, who is Read more