Syed Shayan Real Estate Archive
Syed Shayan Real Estate Archive
From Real Estate History
Syed Shayan Real Estate Archive
On 1 January 1863, a landmark piece of legislation came into force in the United States known as the Homestead Act. For the first time, the law granted ordinary citizens the legal right to file a claim on vacant government-owned land and, upon meeting specific conditions, ultimately acquire ownershi...
Across Pakistan, 31 December is designated as the annual Close of the revenue system, under which all land and property related records maintained by the Board of Revenue are formally closed on a yearly basis. This process encompasses all administrative levels, from the traditional patwari system to...
On 30 December 1973, a day of exceptional significance in the industrial and urban history of Pakistan, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto laid the foundation stone of Pakistan Steel Mills at Bin Qasim, Steel Town, to the east of Karachi, beyond the then urban limits of the city. This project...
On 29 December 1845, Texas formally became the twenty eighth state of the United States. This event was not merely a political decision. It marked an extraordinary turning point in the global history of land ownership and real estate. As a result of this single day’s decision, approximately 2590...
On 29 December 1835, a legal treaty was concluded in the American state of Georgia, historically known as the Treaty of New Echota. This agreement is regarded as one of the most controversial and troubling chapters in United States history, particularly in relation to land ownership, state authorit...
On 24 December 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft was orbiting the Moon. As it emerged from behind the Moon’s far side, an extraordinary sight appeared before the astronauts. Slowly rising above the Moon’s barren and gray horizon, Earth came into view. Recognizing the significance of the moment, astr...
Exactly one century ago, on 23 December 1925, the most famous real estate phenomenon in American history stood at its absolute peak. Across Florida, particularly in Miami and Palm Beach, the purchase of land had transformed into a national obsession. The promise was simple and intoxicating: fortunes...
Approximately 1,169 years ago, on 22 December 856 AD, a devastating earthquake struck the city of Damghan and its surrounding areas in the northern region of Qumis in Persia, present day Iran. Contemporary historical accounts and later scholarly records agree that this earthquake ranks among the mos...
In the aftermath of the First World War, Europe faced widespread devastation. Millions of homes had been destroyed, while soldiers returned from the front to cities unable to absorb them. In Britain, this moment gave rise to the slogan “Homes Fit for Heroes”, encapsulating a growing belief that ...
On 21 December 1911, during the period of the British Raj, a formal notice for the acquisition of land for New Delhi was published in the Punjab Gazette. This notification was issued only nine days after the proclamation of 12 December 1911, when King George V of Britain announced the transfer of th...
20 December 1803 stands as a defining date in the global history of real estate and land agreements. It not only reshaped the concept of land acquisition but also introduced a new dimension to state expansion, geopolitics, and the strategic value of land. This event is historically known as the Loui...
On 6 December 1992, the historic Babri Masjid in the Indian city of Ayodhya was demolished by a large crowd. This event constituted a profound religious trauma for Muslims of the subcontinent and simultaneously became the symbol of a prolonged and complex legal dispute over land and property. Its co...
On 6 December 2022, the United Kingdom’s historic weekly real estate journal Estates Gazette (EG) announced that, due to severe financial pressures, it was no longer possible to continue its traditional mode of publication. The management acknowledged that a sustained decline in advertising revenu...
On 4 December 2002, the federal government approved the first comprehensive technical review of Islamabad’s 1960 master plan. The cabinet was informed that rapid population growth, uncontrolled commercialisation and extensive public and private construction had fundamentally altered the original ...
(Berlin) On 3 December 1938, the Nazi government enacted a severe state decree titled “Verordnung über den Einsatz des jüdischen Vermögens” (Regulation on the Use of Jewish Property), through which the forced sale of all residential, commercial and agricultural assets owned by Jewish citizens...
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
