From Real Estate History
On October 26, 2005, the US housing bubble reached its zenith, marking the peak of unsustainable price growth that would soon trigger the global financial crisis. Property values h......
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Peterborough in England was officially designated as a New Town. The decision formed part of the third major wave of Britain’s New Towns programme, which aimed to reduce housing an......
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The Mumbai we see today was not the same in 1668. At that time, it was not a single organised city but a cluster of seven separate islands, with seawater flowing between them. Ther......
Read More →A formal groundbreaking ceremony in Lower Manhattan marked the beginning of the original World Trade Center, one of the most ambitious commercial real estate and urban redevelopmen......
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On 27 November 1962, the Lahore Improvement Trust (LIT) issued a landmark resolution approving, for the first time, the formal urban expansion of Lahore across the western bank of ......
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The acquisition of land for the Model Town Society was one of the most remarkable and spirited chapters in its early history. Dewan Khem Chand and his...
Between 1921 and 1924, the land for Model Town Lahore was acquired in successive phases. The process began in 1921, shortly after the establishment of...