Weekly Blend: July 15, 2016

The Weekly Blend is your ‘weekly’ source covering real estate news that you just may have missed. Our hard at work Weekly Blend crew scours the web, newsgroups and forums looking for obscure, bizarre, interesting and informative real estate (or real estate related) stories. If you have one you’d like to share please feel free to share it in our comments section or tweet about it using the hashtag #WeeklyBlend. So brew yourself a fresh cup of coffee and enjoy these stories…maybe even share them with friends or colleagues. Happy reading!

Here are my weekly picks:

If you have $2.2 million U.S. then you may be interested to know that New Jersey’s oldest Frank Lloyd Wright house just hit the market.

A Newfoundland lottery winner is still having trouble selling his mansion … it’s been listed for four years.

Maybe it’s called “Ewe-ber?” This summer, a Montreal park is using sheep for its landscaping duties.

A former Toronto hostel has been restored to include an open space used by coffee shop customers while doubling as a teaching room.

City council has approved the CNIB’s pitch for an Edmonton highrise designed for the blind.

These Harry Potter super fans turned their dining room in Hogwart’s Great Hall!

There’s a Kickstarter project hoping to raise funds for a permanent home for Kurt Vonnegut’s legacy.

For 53 years, Justo Gallego has been building a cathedral on the outskirts of Madrid by hand and almost entirely by himself.

Are you a first-time furniture arranger? If yes, you’ll be interested in these seven tips – including one about rules of the rug.

Casamatic, a Cincinnati startup offers millennials “eHarmony for homebuying.”

 

Jonathan Baker, our former Speech Writer, contributed to the development of speeches, advertisements, and communications to our membership. Our staff knew him as the go-to guy at 200 Catherine for some comic relief. Prior to joining CREA, Jon worked in the radio industry in Ottawa. If you meet Jon, be sure to ask him to tell you about his encounters with many famous musicians while volunteering at a local music festival for more than 10 years.


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