Residential parks concept starting to draw younger crowd

CHICAGO: Residential parks are starting to draw a younger age group than retirement communities. Whilst retirement communities have gravitated toward 80 plus, the residential parks sub-set is attracting adherents down to 45 years old.

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Top 10 housing projects worldwide in 2014 named

MINNEAPOLIS: The top 10 multigenerational apartment housing complexes which opened in 2014, have been nominated for a Global Award. All have been shortlisted on the basis that they sought to reorganise and improve the conditions in which we work and live. Read More »

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Spin-off REIT to focus on seniors housing investment

NEW YORK: New Senior Investment Group Inc. is a REIT that owns 91 senior housing properties, primarily independent-living facilities with less health-care exposure, across 27 U.S. states. It spun off from another REIT, Newcastle Investment Corp., in November. Spin-Off Research uses trading values for peers Read More »

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Judge strikes down wage boost for home workers

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A federal judge has struck down Labor Department regulations that extended minimum wage and overtime pay to home health care workers.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the rules conflict with federal law that has long exempted Read More »

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