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On 6 March 2018 thousands of farmers began a long protest march from the city of Nashik in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The march later became known as the Maharashtra Farmers Long March. Nearly forty to fifty thousand farmers participated and walked a distance of about 167 kilometres. Coverin...
On June 13, 2014, British travel company Priceline acquired restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion. Although primarily a technology and hospitality deal, it highlighted the growing integration of property, hospitality, tourism, and digital platforms that influence commercial rea...
2010: The global real estate market had begun showing its first cautious signs of recovery after years of stagnation caused by the 2008 subprime mortgage collapse. This period marked a technical turning point for the property sector, as markets slowly started moving out of one of the most severe r...
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was established by law to provide lower interest (5 percent) loans to prevent foreclosures, and the first to be made at a fixed rate. At the time of its creation, 41 percent of home mortgages in the United States had been in default. The HOLC accepted app...
On 10 March 1930, the 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft, was laid to rest at the nation’s renowned national burial ground, Arlington National Cemetery. He became the first U.S. president to be buried in this historic cemetery. Taft had passed away two days earlier, on 8 Marc...
US President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act on 1 March 1872, thereby formally creating the world’s first national park. One day earlier, on 28 February 1872, the United States Congress had approved the bill. With the President’s signature, the area was perma...
1869: legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His philosophy of “Organic Architecture” reshaped 20th century residential design and left a lasting impact on real estate development. Wright promoted open-floor plans, built-in furniture and low-pit...
Prior to Florida’s admission, the United States consisted of 26 states. Its elevation to statehood was driven in part by the need to preserve the delicate political balance between slave holding and free states. As a southern territory that permitted slavery, Florida’s admission was paired with ...
The United States Congress gave final legislative approval to the Joint Resolution providing for the annexation of Texas, marking a decisive moment in American territorial expansion. The process had begun a day earlier, on 27 February, when the Senate passed the resolution by a narrow margin of 27 t...
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. There were marshes, salt flats, and moving from one island to another was itself a difficult task. On March 27 1668, under ...
There was a time when Jews in what is now the United States were deprived of the right to establish their own place of worship. On 13 March 1656 the colonial administration of Governor Peter Stuyvesant issued an order declaring that the Jewish community could not purchase or hold land in the city...
On 12 March 1613 André Le Nôtre was born in Paris France. He came from a family that had been connected with the management and care of royal gardens for several generations. His father Jean Le Nôtre served as the superintendent of the royal gardens of the French court, and his grandfather had al...
On 15 June 1215, King John of England agreed to the Magna Carta at Runnymede. Although it was not a modern real estate law, it became one of history’s most important legal documents because it limited arbitrary royal power and strengthened the idea that land, property, taxation, and justice should...
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